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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Technical requirements

Clone the control repo from https://github.com/puppetlabs/control-repo to your GitHub account as controlrepo-chapter9 and update the following in this repo on the production branch:

Puppetfile with https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Puppet-8-for-DevOps-Engineers/blob/main/ch09/Puppetfile
Manifests/site.pp with https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Puppet-8-for-DevOps-Engineers/blob/main/ch09/site.pp
Create a branch from production called lab_error and replace the following:
- data with https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Puppet-8-for-DevOps-Engineers/blob/main/ch09/data
- hiera.yaml with https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Puppet-8-for-DevOps-Engineers/blob/main/ch09/hiera.yaml

Build a standard cluster with two Linux clients and two Windows clients by downloading the params.json file from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Puppet-8-for-DevOps-Engineers/blob/main/ch09/params.json and updating it with the location of your control repo and your SSH key...