You're reading from Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers Automate your infrastructure at an enterprise scale

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803231709

Length 416 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Puppet

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

David Sandilands

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – Introduction to Puppet and the Basics of the Puppet Language

2. Chapter 1: Puppet Concepts and Practices FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Major Changes, Useful Tools, and References

4. Chapter 3: Puppet Classes, Resource Types, and Providers

5. Chapter 4: Variables and Data Types

6. Chapter 5: Facts and Functions

7. Part 2 – Structuring, Ordering, and Managing Data in the Puppet Language

8. Chapter 6: Relationships, Ordering, and Scope

9. Chapter 7: Templating, Iterating, and Conditionals

10. Chapter 8: Developing and Managing Modules

11. Chapter 9: Handling Data with Puppet

12. Part 3 – The Puppet Platform and Bolt Orchestration

13. Chapter 10: Puppet Platform Parts and Functions

14. Chapter 11: Classification and Release Management

15. Chapter 12: Bolt for Orchestration

16. Chapter 13: Taking Puppet Server Further

17. Part 4 – Puppet Enterprise and Approaches to the Adoption of Puppet

18. Chapter 14: A Brief Overview of Puppet Enterprise

19. Chapter 15: Approaches to Adoption

20. Index

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Puppet Platform Parts and Functions

So far, we have discussed Puppet as a language, but in this chapter and the following chapters, we will start to focus on Puppet as a platform and the infrastructure and components of the platform.

In Figure 10.1, the full architecture of services involved in Puppet Server and the Puppet client, to be discussed in this chapter, is shown. These services focus on how Puppet code is enforced on servers:

Figure 10.1 – Puppet server and client components

We will start by highlighting that we do not run through installation methods in this book. There are several open source projects to base automation on for open source Puppet and Puppet Enterprise; throughout this book, we have used the peadznd pecdm modules as the most automated mechanism for installing Puppet Editor (PE). As components are discussed, it will be noted how the versioning of Puppet packages can differ, and we’ll look at some related install...