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Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788831864

Length 292 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Puppet

Concepts

Configuration Management

Authors (2):

Jason Southgate

Ryan Russell-Yates

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

Who this book is for
What this book covers
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1. Authoring Modules FREE CHAPTER

Using a decent IDE and plugins
Using good module and class structure
Using the new Puppet Development Kit commands
Validating your module
Unit testing your module
Staying on the lookout for code smells
Working with dead code
Using Puppet Forge
Working with the community
Writing great documentation
Adding module dependencies
Adding compatibility data for your modules
Using the new Hiera 5 module level data
Summary

2. Roles and Profiles

Summary of the pattern
Profiles
Roles
Summary

3. Extending Puppet

Custom facts
Custom functions
Types and providers
Summary

4. Hiera 5

Separation of concerns between code and data
Introducing a frame for the environment
A more complete hierarchy
Hiera 5 summary
Global, environment, and module layers
Encrypted YAML backend
Lookup function
Debugging Hiera
Beyond Hiera using Jerakia
Summary

5. Managing Code

Efficiently managing code
Code Manager
Multitenant control repository
Summary

6. Workflow

Puppet workflow
Designing a Puppet workflow
Using the PDK
Summary

7. Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration systems
Unit testing with Puppet RSpec
Acceptance testing with Test Kitchen
Summary

8. Extending Puppet with Tasks and Discovery

Puppet Tasks
Puppet Discovery
Summary

9. Exported Resources

Virtual and exported resources
Use cases
Summary

10. Application Orchestration

Application definition
Application components
Service resources
Modeling applications
Summary

11. Scaling Puppet

Inspection
Tuning
Horizontal scaling
Summary

12. Troubleshooting and Profiling

Common component errors
Catalog errors
Logging
Summary

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Hiera 5 summary

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Global, environment, and module layers
Encrypted YAML backend
Lookup function
Debugging Hiera

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