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Puppet 5 Essentials Third Edition

You're reading from   Puppet 5 Essentials Third Edition A fast-paced guide to automating your infrastructure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787284715
Length 262 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Writing Your First Manifests 2. Puppet Server and Agents FREE CHAPTER 3. A Peek into the Ruby Part of Puppet - Facts, Types, and Providers 4. Combining Resources in Classes and Defined Types 5. Combining Classes, Configuration Files, and Extensions into Modules 6. The Puppet Beginners Advanced Parts 7. New Features from Puppet 4 and 5 8. Separation of Code and Data with Hiera 9. Puppet Roles and Profiles

The Puppet Beginners Advanced Parts

After our in-depth discussions on both the manifest structure elements (class and define) and encompassing structure (modules), you are in a great position to write manifests for all of your agents. Make sure that you get Forge modules that will allow them to do your work for you. Then go ahead and add site-specific modules that implement Forge modules to your needs. Finally, you will have composite classes for the node blocks to be used, or rather, included.

These concepts are quite a bit to take in. It's now time to decelerate a bit, lean back, and tackle simpler code structures and ideas. You are about to learn some techniques that you are not going to need every day. They can make difficult scenarios much easier, though. So, it might be a good idea to come back to this chapter again after you have spent some time in the field. You might...

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