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Puppet 5 Beginner???s Guide

You're reading from Puppet 5 Beginner???s Guide Go from newbie to pro with Puppet 5

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788472906

Length 266 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Go

Tools

Puppet

Concepts

Configuration Management

Author (1):

John Arundel

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting started with Puppet FREE CHAPTER

2. Creating your first manifests

3. Managing your Puppet code with Git

4. Understanding Puppet resources

5. Variables, expressions, and facts

6. Managing data with Hiera

7. Mastering modules

8. Classes, roles, and profiles

9. Managing files with templates

10. Controlling containers

11. Orchestrating cloud resources

12. Putting it all together

Index

Chapter 1. Getting started with Puppet

	For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
	--Alice Kahn

In this chapter, you'll learn about some of the challenges of managing configuration on servers, some common solutions to these problems, and how automation tools such as Puppet can help. You'll also learn how to download the GitHub repository containing all of the source code and examples in this book, how to set up your own Vagrant virtual machine to run the code, and how to download and install Puppet.

Whether you're a system administrator, a developer who needs to wrangle servers from time to time, or just someone who's annoyed at how long it takes to deploy a new app, you'll have come across the kind of problems Puppet is designed to solve.

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Authors (1)

John Arundel

John Arundel

John Arundel is a DevOps consultant, which means he helps people build world-class web operations teams and infrastructures and has fun doing it. He was formerly a senior operations engineer at global telco Verizon, designing resilient, high-performance infrastructures for major corporations such as Ford, McDonald's, and Bank of America. He is now an independent consultant, working closely with selected clients to deliver web-scale performance and enterprise-grade resilience on a startup budget. He likes writing books, especially about Puppet (Puppet 2.7 Cookbook and Puppet 3 Cookbook are available from Packt). He also provides training and coaching on Puppet and DevOps, which, it turns out, is far harder than simply doing the work himself. Off the clock, he is a medal-winning, competitive rifle and pistol shooter and a decidedly uncompetitive piano player. He lives in a small cottage in Cornwall, England and believes, like Cicero, that, if you have a garden and a library, then you have everything you need. You may like to follow him on Twitter at @bitfield.

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