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Mastering Puppet. Master Puppet for configuration management of your systems in an enterprise deployment - Second Edition

Mastering Puppet. Master Puppet for configuration management of your systems in an enterprise deployment - Second Edition

Thomas Uphill

Ebook
Puppet is a configuration management system and a language. It was written for and by system administrators to manage large numbers of systems efficiently and prevent configuration drifts.
Mastering Puppet deals with the issues faced when scaling out Puppet to handle large numbers of nodes. It will show you how to fit Puppet into your enterprise and allow many developers to work on your Puppet code simultaneously. In addition, you will learn to write custom facts and roll your own modules to solve problems. Next, popular options for performing reporting and orchestration tasks will be introduced in this book. Moving over to troubleshooting techniques, which will be very useful. The concepts presented are useful to any size organization.
By the end of the book, you will know how to deal with problems of scale and exceptions in your code, automate workflows, and support multiple developers working simultaneously.
  • 1. Dealing with Load/Scale
  • 2. Organizing your Nodes and Data
  • 3. Git and Environments
  • 4. Public Modules
  • 5. Custom Facts and Modules
  • 6. Custom Types
  • 7. Reporting and Orchestrating
  • 8. Exported Resources
  • 9. Roles and Profiles
  • 10. Troubleshooting
  • Title: Mastering Puppet. Master Puppet for configuration management of your systems in an enterprise deployment - Second Edition
  • Author: Thomas Uphill
  • Original title: Mastering Puppet. Master Puppet for configuration management of your systems in an enterprise deployment - Second Edition
  • ISBN: 9781785882593, 9781785882593
  • Date of issue: 2016-02-25
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3bco
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing