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Puppet 4.10 Beginner???s Guide, Second Edition

You're reading from Puppet 4.10 Beginner???s Guide, Second Edition From newbie to pro with Puppet 4.10

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787124004

Length 268 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Puppet

Concepts

System Administration

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 7. Mastering modules

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

—Henry Ford

In this chapter, you'll learn about Puppet Forge, the public repository for Puppet modules, and you'll see how to install and use third-party modules from Puppet Forge, using the r10k module management tool. You'll see examples of how to use three important Forge modules: puppetlabs/apache, puppetlabs/mysql, and puppet/archive. You'll be introduced to some useful functions provided by puppetlabs/stdlib, the Puppet standard library. Finally, working through a complete example, you'll learn how to develop your own Puppet module from scratch, how to add appropriate metadata for your module, and how to upload it to Puppet Forge.

Mastering modules

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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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