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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Summary

This chapter has reviewed how Puppet Enterprise builds on top of the open source tooling, providing the services necessary to secure and automate the deployment of Puppet. It was discussed how Puppet Enterprise bundled the open source packages into consistent versions, with support offerings and services from Puppet architecture and services teams.

We also discussed the additional services of Puppet Enterprise that secure user and API access via RBAC, giving a web frontend and additional APIs in the console services the ability to deploy code from Code Manager.

Puppet orchestrator was then seen, to show how tasks and plans could be run in Puppet Enterprise with the orchestrator service running tasks and plans via PCP using PXP brokers to direct communication from PXP agents on nodes. The agentless clients could be added to the inventory service storing their transport details, and tasks or plans to run on them would ego via the Bolt server for nodes connected by WinRM...