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Puppet: Mastering Infrastructure Automation

Gain key skills to manage your IT infrastructure and succeed with everyday IT automation

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
By: Thomas Uphill,  Felix Frank,  Jaime Soriano Pastor,  Alessandro Franceschi and  Martin Alfke  
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|Jun 2017
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Start pulling the strings of your IT infrastructure effectively with Puppet – learn how to configure, customize and manage your systems more intelligently in an enterprise deployment.

Key Features

  • Step-by-step instructions to jump start your Puppet deployment and automate your IT configurations
  • Design, implement, and deploy Puppet in your infrastructure and tackle everyday IT infrastructure challenges
  • Gain expert understanding of Puppet's latest and most advanced features

Book Description

Puppet is a configuration management tool that allows you to automate all your IT configurations, giving you control. It was written for and by system administrators to manage large numbers of systems efficiently and prevent configuration drifts. Puppet gives you control of what you do to each node, when you do it, and how you do it.This Learning Path will take you from the basics of Puppet to extending it and then mastering it. We will start off with a primer on Puppet, its installation and get a sneak peek under its hood. We will then move on to designing and deploying your Puppet architecture, learning best practices for writing reusable and maintainable code, and executing, testing, and deploying Puppet across your systems. Finally, we will deal with problems of scale and exceptions in your code, automate workflows, and support multiple developers working simultaneously.This course is based on the following books:
1)Puppet 4 Essentials - Second Edition
2)Extending Puppet - Second Edition
3)Mastering Puppet - Second Edition

What you will learn

  • Write and employ individual Puppet manifests
  • Understand how Puppet implements system abstraction
  • Use Puppet to manage network, cloud, and virtualization devices
  • Manage and test the Puppet code workflow
  • Tweak, hack, and adapt the Puppet extension points
  • Use exported resources to orchestrate change between machines
  • Debug a puppetserver using Java techniques

Who this book is for

If you're an experienced IT professional and a new Puppet user, this course will provide you with all you need to know to go from installation to advanced automation.

Table of Contents

  1. Puppet 4 Essentials, Second Edition
  2. Extending Puppet
  3. Mastering Puppet Second Edition
https://github.com/packtpublishing/puppet-mastering-infrastructure-automation
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78839-772-8
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2017 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 796
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Networking

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