Mastering Puppet

Presented in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step tutorial format and packed with examples, this book will lead you through making the best out of Puppet in an enterprise environment. If you are a system administrator or developer who has used Puppet in production and are looking for ways to easily use Puppet in an enterprise environment, this book is for you. This book assumes an intermediate knowledge of Puppet and is intended for those writing modules or deploying Puppet in an enterprise environment.

Description

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Key benefits

Deploy and configure Puppet and learn advanced techniques in a medium to large organization
Address issues faced in larger deployments such as scalability and performance and run a fully-functional infrastructure in an enterprise
Use techniques presented in this video course to create custom modules and extend your Puppet infrastructure

Description

Puppet is a configuration management system that automates all your IT configurations, giving you control of what you do to each node, when you do it, and how you do it. This video course takes you from a basic knowledge of Puppet to an advanced level of understanding latest and most advanced Puppet features. You will discover advanced techniques to deal with centralized and decentralized Puppet deployments and take control of your servers and desktops. This course will also present interesting examples to automate Puppet deployment for configuration management and to automate every aspect of your systems including provisioning, deployment, and change management. By learning these skills, you will make Puppet reliant, scalable, and high performing.

Who is this book for?

This course targets system administrators and developers, particularly those working in production environments and are looking for ways to use Puppet in enterprise environments. This video tutorial assumes intermediate knowledge of Puppet.

What you will learn

Initialize a code repository for our project and manage module dependencies
Configure Puppet server infrastructures by using different methodologies and components
Add features to achieve redundancy and optimize performance
Deploy specific storage components for servers to ensure fast and reliable data delivery
Implement orchestration using mcollective and Hiera for data management
Learn to trigger notifications and alerts in case of noteworthy Puppet events
Write efficient Puppet code tests and ensure proper code delivery to the Puppet master servers
Utilize some best practices and tips on how to troubleshoot certain issues that might crop up