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Puppet 4 Essentials. Acquire skills to manage your IT infrastructure effectively with Puppet - Second Edition

Puppet 4 Essentials. Acquire skills to manage your IT infrastructure effectively with Puppet - Second Edition

Felix Frank, Martin Alfke

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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 scalable and portable solutions, not only in terms of software, but also the systems that run it. The free Ruby-based tool Puppet has established itself as the most successful solution to manage any IT infrastructure. Ranging from local development environments through complex data center setups to scalable cloud implementations, Puppet allows you to handle them all with a unified approach.


Puppet 4 Essentials, Second Edition gets you started rapidly and intuitively as you’ll put Puppet’s tools to work right away. It will also highlight the changes associated with performance improvements as well as the new language features in Puppet 4.
We’ll start with a quick introduction to Puppet to get you managing your IT systems quickly. You will then learn about the Puppet Agent that comes with an all-in-one (AIO) package and can run on multiple systems. Next, we’ll show you the Puppet Server for high-performance communication and passenger packages. As you progress through the book, the innovative structure and approach of Puppet will be explained with powerful use cases. The difficulties that are inherent to a complex and powerful tool will no longer be a problem for you as you discover Puppet's fascinating intricacies.
By the end of the book, you will not only know how to use Puppet, but also its companion tools Facter and Hiera, and will be able to leverage the flexibility and expressive power implemented by their tool chain.
  • 1. Writing your first manifests
  • 2. Setting up the master and its agents
  • 3. A peek under the hood: Facts, types, providers
  • 4. Modularizing manifests with classes and defined types
  • 5. Extending your Puppet infrastructure with modules
  • 6. Leveraging the full toolset of the language
  • 7. Using new language features from Puppet 4
  • 8. Separating data from code using Hiera
  • Title: Puppet 4 Essentials. Acquire skills to manage your IT infrastructure effectively with Puppet - Second Edition
  • Author: Felix Frank, Martin Alfke
  • Original title: Puppet 4 Essentials. Acquire skills to manage your IT infrastructure effectively with Puppet - Second Edition
  • ISBN: 9781785882586, 9781785882586
  • Date of issue: 2015-12-11
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3bpz
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing