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Puppet Cookbook - Third Edition

Jump-start your Puppet deployment using engaging and practical recipes

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|Mar 2015
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Key Features

    Book Description

    This book 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.

    What you will learn

    • Install and set up Puppet for the first time
    • Discover the latest, most advanced, and experimental features of Puppet
    • Bootstrap your Puppet installation
    • Master techniques to deal with centralized and decentralized Puppet deployments
    • Use exported resources and forge modules
    • Create efficient manifests to streamline your deployments
    • Automate Puppet master deployment using Git hooks, r10k, and PuppetDB
    • Make Puppet reliable, performant, and scalable

    Who this book is for

    This book 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.

    Table of Contents

    1. Puppet Language and Style
    2. Puppet Infrastructure
    3. Writing Better Manifests
    4. Working with Files and Packages
    5. Users and Virtual Resources
    6. Managing Resources and Files
    7. Managing Applications
    8. Inter-node coordination
    9. External Tools and the Puppet Ecosystem
    10. Monitoring, Reporting, and Troubleshooting
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78439-373-1
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2015
    Language: English
    Pages: 336