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Mastering Puppet 5

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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

1. Authoring Modules FREE CHAPTER

2. Roles and Profiles

3. Extending Puppet

4. Hiera 5

5. Managing Code

6. Workflow

7. Continuous Integration

8. Extending Puppet with Tasks and Discovery

9. Exported Resources

10. Application Orchestration

11. Scaling Puppet

12. Troubleshooting and Profiling

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Summary

In this chapter, we discussed troubleshooting Puppet. We went over common errors seen in connections between the Puppetserver and Puppet agents. We looked at common catalog compilation failures, and how to debug them. We also covered logback and the log files on the master.

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Authors (2)

Russell-Yates

Russell-Yates

Ryan Russell-Yates is a technical consultant in the space of automation, DevOps and Infrastructure Architecture. He has helped numerous IT practitioners at companies of various shapes and sizes across various industries to implement automation best practices at scale. Ryan's true passion in the technology industry is teaching practitioners new tools, technologies and strategies for dealing with today's complicated digital landscape.

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Southgate

Southgate

Jason Southgate has been working in the IT industry for more than 15 years, and has been using Puppet for more than 6 years, and has tackled some very large projects in Europe, most recently creating a IaaS / PaaS cloud for KPN, the Netherlands' premier telecommunications company, using Puppet Enterprise at very large scale. Jason was certified in Puppet in 2014, and also has AWS and Azure certification.

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