Puppet 5 Essentials Third Edition

A fast-paced guide to automating your infrastructure

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Felix Frank and Martin Alfke

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|Sep 2025

E-Book €28.99Institutions €128.95

A Guide to managing servers and automation

Key Features

Breeze through Puppet's key features and performance improvements to bring real advantages to your IT infrastructure
Discover Puppet best practices to help you avoid common mistakes and pitfalls
Examples to help you get to grips with Puppet and succeed with everyday IT automation

Book Description

Puppet is a configuration management tool that allows you to automate all your IT configurations, giving you control over what you do to each Puppet Agent in a network, and when and how you do it. In this age of digital delivery and ubiquitous Internet presence, it's becoming increasingly important to implement scaleable and portable solutions, not only in terms of software, but also the system that runs it.
This book gets you started quickly with Puppet and its tools in the right way. It highlights improvements in Puppet and provides solutions for upgrading. It starts with a quick introduction to Puppet in order to quickly get your IT automation platform in place. Then you learn about the Puppet Agent and its installation and configuration along with Puppet Server and its scaling options. The book adopts an innovative structure and approach, and Puppet is explained with flexible use cases that empower you to manage complex infrastructures easily.
Finally, the book will take readers through Puppet and its companion tools such as Facter, Hiera, and R10k and how to make use of tool chains.

What you will learn

Understand declarative configuration management
Make use of GIT-based deployment workflows
Extend Factor with secure elements
Create modular and reusable Puppet code
Extend your code base with publicly available Puppet modules
Separate logic from data by using Hiera
Understand and develop Puppet Roles and Profiles

Who this book is for

This book targets experienced IT professionals and new Puppet uses, who will learn all they need to know to go from installation to advanced automation. Get a rapid introduction to the essential topics and learn how to build best practices for advanced automation with Puppet.

Writing Your First Module
Puppet Server and Agents
A Peek into the Ruby part of Puppet - Facter, Types, Provider
Modularising Manifests with Classes and Defined Types
Extending your Puppet Infrastructure with Modules
The Puppet Beginners
Puppet Roles and Profiles
Separation of Code and Data with Hiera
Puppet Code Deployment with R10k

https://github.com/packtpublishing/puppet-essentials-third-edition

PDF ISBN: 978-1-78728-536-1

Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited

Publication date: 2025

Language: English

Pages: 262

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