To get the most out of this book

Users with some prior Puppet experience will get the most out of this book, but every lesson is intended to be helpful to someone at any stage of learning about Puppet. To follow along in the book, users should install a trial version of Puppet Enterprise and attach some nodes to the Puppet Master. Each chapter will help set up the Puppet Master in a way to utilize the existing infrastructure.

Directions for installing Puppet Enterprise can be found at https://puppet.com/docs/pe/latest/installing_pe.html. 

Download the example code files

You can download the example code files for this book from your account at www.packt.com. If you purchased this book elsewhere, you can visit www.packt.com/support and register to have the files emailed directly to you.

You can download the code files by following these steps:

1. Log in or register at www.packt.com.
2. Select the SUPPORT tab.
3. Click on Code Downloads & Errata.
4. Enter the name of the book in the Search box and follow the onscreen instructions.

Once the file is downloaded, please make sure that you unzip or extract the folder using the latest version of:

• WinRAR/7-Zip for Windows
• Zipeg/iZip/UnRarX for Mac
• 7-Zip/PeaZip for Linux

The code bundle for the book is also hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-Puppet-5. In case there's an update to the code, it will be updated on the existing GitHub repository.

We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!

Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/9781788831864_ColorImages.pdf.

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "The earlier incarnations of Hiera (version 3 or earlier) used a single, entirely global hiera.yaml."

A block of code is set as follows:

lookup({
   'name'  => 'classification',
   'merge' => {
     'strategy'        => 'deep',
     'knockout_prefix' => '--',
   },
 })

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

lookup({
   'name'  => 'classification',
   'merge' => {
     'strategy' => 'deep',
     'knockout_prefix' => '--',
   },
 })

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ sudo /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/gem install hiera-eyaml

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "We can reach the plugin page by clicking on Manage Jenkins on the left-hand side of the screen."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.