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Puppet 4 Essentials, Second Edition
Puppet 4 Essentials, Second Edition

Puppet 4 Essentials, Second Edition: Acquire skills to manage your IT infrastructure effectively with Puppet , Second Edition

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Profile Icon Felix Frank Profile Icon Martin Alfke
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Puppet 4 Essentials, Second Edition

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Key benefits

  • Breeze through Puppet 4’s key features and performance improvements to bring real advantage to your IT infrastructure
  • Discover Puppet best practices to help you avoid common mistakes and pitfalls
  • Blitz through easy-to-follow examples to get to grips with Puppet and succeed with everyday IT automation

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

If you're an experienced IT professional and a new Puppet user, this book will provide you with all you need to know to go from installation to advanced automation in no time at all. Get a rapid introduction to the essential topics and then tackle Puppet for advanced automation.

What you will learn

  • Write and employ individual Puppet manifests
  • Understand how Puppet implements system abstraction
  • Deploy the Puppet master and agents
  • Leverage and extend Facter to summarize your systems
  • Create modular and reusable Puppet code
  • Extend your code base with publicly available Puppet modules
  • Use the modern features of Puppet 4
  • Separate logic from data using Hiera

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Publication date : Dec 11, 2015
Length: 246 pages
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Table of Contents

9 Chapters
1. Writing Your First Manifests Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. The Master and Its Agents Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. A Peek under the Hood – Facts, Types, and Providers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Modularizing Manifests with Classes and Defined Types Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Extending Your Puppet Infrastructure with Modules Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Leveraging the Full Toolset of the Language Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. New Features from Puppet 4 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Separating Data from Code Using Hiera Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Rudy Jan 08, 2016
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Whether you are new to Puppet or a long time Puppet user Felix and Martin have written a superb manual that DOES cover the essentials needed to get going with Puppet 4. Coming from Puppet 2 and 3, I definitely appreciate their coverage of upgrading to Puppet 4 along with the breaking of old habits like strict variable naming, and learning the new reference syntax. Their coverage of Facts, Types, and Providers is very thorough and there are other nuggets like how to override resource parameters. Definite buy, you won't be disappointed!!!
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Chris Everett Mar 31, 2016
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Puppet 4 Essentials, Second Edition gets you started rapidly. The book also highlights the changes associated with performance improvements as well as the new language features in Puppet 4. The Puppet Agent that comes with an all-in-one (AIO) package and can run on multiple systems was a clincher for me. I will most definitely recommend this book.
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Sussane Miller Mar 31, 2016
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The book is very detailed and easy to read, it takes the reader through the different facilities Puppet provides, logging, metrics and reporting, with examples how to implement simple but at the same time powerful processors and integrate them with a wide range of tools, like monitoring, metrics, etc. Overall, I would highly recommend this book.
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Andrea Jan 31, 2016
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This is the second edition, but it's not clear how the first edition (that I've not read) it's necessary.You will start from writing your first manifest, without any background knowledge of what is Puppet and it's architecture. Maybe was already covered in the previous edition, but in my opinion a short introduction was useful.Compared to other "essential" books this required some initial knowledge, otherwise it's too difficult to learn. Definitely not for beginners.Anyway the examples are clear enough and chapter by chapter you learn more and more.New features of Puppet 4 are covered in chapter 6.A good reference, maybe without a clear path on how use Puppet, but deep enough.
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Amazon Customer Feb 23, 2017
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It's starts great and then it just lost me. A bit disappointed.I found the free training given by puppetlabs was much more helpful. Also their puppet vm environment with the quests was excellent (also free)
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