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Puppet 4.10 Beginner???s Guide, Second Edition

You're reading from   Puppet 4.10 Beginner???s Guide, Second Edition From newbie to pro with Puppet 4.10

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787124004
Length 268 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Getting started with Puppet FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating your first manifests 3. Managing your Puppet code with Git 4. Understanding Puppet resources 5. Variables, expressions, and facts 6. Managing data with Hiera 7. Mastering modules 8. Classes, roles, and profiles 9. Managing files with templates 10. Controlling containers 11. Orchestrating cloud resources 12. Putting it all together Index

Creating a Git repo

It's very easy to create a Git repo. Follow these steps:

  1. Install Git on your Vagrant box with the following command:
    sudo apt-get install git
    
  2. Make a directory to hold your versioned files using the following commands:
    cd
    mkdir puppet
    
  3. Now run the following commands to turn the directory into a Git repo:
    cd puppet
    git init
    Initialized empty Git repository in /home/vagrant/puppet/.git/

Making your first commit

You can change the files in your repo as much as you like, but Git will not know about the changes until you make what's called a commit. You can think of a commit as being like a snapshot of the repo at a particular moment, but it also stores information about what changed in the repo since the previous commit. Commits are stored forever, so you will always be able to roll back the repo to the state it was in at a certain commit, or show what files were changed in a past commit and compare them to the state of the repo at any other commit.

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