Puppet 3 Cookbook

An essential book if you have responsibility for servers. Real-world examples and code will give you Puppet expertise, allowing more control over servers, cloud computing, and desktops. A time-saving, career-enhancing tutorial

Key Features

• Use Puppet 3 to take control of your servers and desktops, with detailed step-by-step instructions
• Covers all the popular tools and frameworks used with Puppet: Dashboard, Foreman, and more
• Teaches you how to extend Puppet with custom functions, types, and providers
• Packed with tips and inspiring ideas for using Puppet to automate server builds, deployments, and workflows
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Book Description

What you will learn

• Installing and setting up Puppet for the first time
• Producing eye-catching reports and information for management
• Understanding common error messages and troubleshooting common problems
• Managing large networks
• Taking control of configuration data with Hiera and encrypting secrets with GnuPG
• Producing reliable, clean, maintainable code to community standards with puppet-lint and rspec-puppet
• Using classes and inheritance to write powerful Puppet code
• Deploying configuration files and templates for lightning-fast installations
• Using virtual machines to build test and staging environments, and production systems on cloud platforms such as EC2
• Automating every aspect of your systems including provisioning, deployment and change management
• Making Puppet reliable, performant, and scalable

Who this book is for

"Puppet 3 Cookbook" is for anyone who builds and administers servers, especially in a web operations context. It requires some experience of Linux systems administration, including familiarity with the command line, file system, and text editing. No programming experience is required.