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Puppet for Containerization

Manage, orchestrate, and deploy containers with Puppet

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Jul 2025
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Description

Learn about configuration management and gain complete control of your Docker containers using Puppet

Key Features

  • This is the first book that focuses specifically on the combination of containerization and configuration management tools as the landscape for system administration changes
  • It demonstrates to administrators how to seamlessly integrate containerization without disrupting their entire system
  • It provides a canny way for you to grow your tool kit and embrace new tech such as Docker while building on your existing skill set

Book Description

This book teaches you how to take advantage of the new benefits of containerization systems such as Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and Docker UCP, without losing the panoptical power of proper configuration management.
You will learn how to integrate your containerized applications and modules with your Puppet workflow. You will also understand how to manage, monitor, and orchestrate hosts to keep deployed containers running seamlessly. With the help of this book, you can efficiently automate and document with containers, as a part of your system.
The book will also cover use cases of deploying Puppet within a containerized environment.

What you will learn

  • Write Puppet modules to build Docker
  • Create Docker Compose templates with .erb files
  • Get to know the architecture of Docker schedulers
  • Create a Docker network and service discovery framework
  • Build a fully functional Docker scheduler with Puppet
  • Make Docker production ready with Puppet

Who this book is for

This book is designed for system administrators who are looking to explore containerization. Intermediate experience and expertise with Puppet is presumed.

Table of Contents

  1. Installing Docker with Puppet
  2. Working with DockerHub
  3. Building a Single Container Application
  4. Building a Multi Container Application
  5. Configuring service discovery and Docker Networking
  6. Working with multi node applications
  7. Container schedulers
  8. Monitoring, Logging and Recovery techniques
  9. Best practices for the real world
https://github.com/packtpublishing/puppet-for-containerization
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78588-538-9
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2016 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 222
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Computer architecture
BISAC subjects:
COM011000,
COM051000,
COM088000
Thema subjects:
UYF,
UM,
UTE

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