Beginning Puppet

Beginning Puppet teaches Linux, Unix and even Windows system admins like you how to learn, use and deploy the new Puppet 3.0 in your environment. Puppet is the fastest growing and most powerful configuration management system on the planet.

This book will summarize what you need to know at a top level, then dive right into learn-by-example Puppet coding. We'll examine real world deployment scenarios and best practices, and get to use newer Puppet features such as Hiera and puppetdb.

You'll learning about using Puppet with developer tools like Git and other external resources
You'll see examples of Puppet usage for Linux, Unix, and even Windows
You'll see real-world examples that you can put to work right away

List of contents

1. Introduction
What is configuration management, and how can Puppet help?

Part I: Puppet language, tools, and best practices

2. Puppet Language Introduction

3. A Deeper Look at Puppet Language

4. Defined Types, Classes, and Modules

5. Facts, Templates, and Hiera

Part 2: How to Architect Your Puppet Code Base

6. The Brick and Mortar Approach to Puppet

7. Writing Good Brick Modules

8. Writing Good Mortar Modules

Part 3: Making Puppet Part of your Infrastructure

9. Puppet Infrastructure

10. Puppet Server

11. Ancillary Puppet Infrastructure

Product details

• Authors: William van Hevelingen, Ben Kero, Spence Krum, Spencer Krum, D Sluijters, Daniele Sluijters, Willia Van Hevelingen, William Van Hevelingen
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2017
• EAN: 9781430260493
• ISBN: 978-1-4302-6049-3
• No. of pages: 275
• Illustrations: 300 p.
• Series: aPress
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries