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Mastering Puppet

You're reading from Mastering Puppet Mastering Puppet for network programming enables developers to pull the strings of Puppet and configure enterprise-level environments for optimum performance

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783982189

Length 280 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

CentOS

Concepts

Configuration Management

Author (1):

Thomas Uphill

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Dealing with Load/Scale FREE CHAPTER

2. Organizing Your Nodes and Data

3. Git and Environments

4. Public Modules

5. Custom Facts and Modules

6. Custom Types

7. Reporting and Orchestration

8. Exported Resources

9. Roles and Profiles

10. Troubleshooting

Index

Chapter 2. Organizing Your Nodes and Data

Now that we can deal with a large number of nodes in our installation, we need a way of organizing which classes we apply to each node.

There are quite a few solutions to the problem of attaching classes to nodes; in this chapter, we will examine the following node organization methods:

An External Node Classifier (ENC)
LDAP backend
Hiera

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Authors (1)

Thomas Uphill

Thomas Uphill

Thomas Uphill (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasuphill) is a long-time user of Puppet. He has presented Puppet tutorials at LOPSA-East, Cascada, and PuppetConf. He has also been a system administrator for over 20 years, working primarily with RedHat systems; he is currently a RedHat Certified Architect (RHCA). When not running the Puppet User Group of Seattle (PUGS), he volunteers for the LOPSA board and his local LOPSA chapter, SASAG. He blogs at http://ramblings.narrabilis.com.

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