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Puppet 5 Cookbook

You're reading from Puppet 5 Cookbook Jump start your Puppet 5.x deployment using engaging and practical recipes

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788622448

Length 394 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Tools

Puppet

Concepts

Configuration Management

Author (1):

Thomas Uphill

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Puppet Language and Style FREE CHAPTER

2. Puppet Infrastructure

3. Writing Better Manifests

4. Working with Files and Packages

5. Users and Virtual Resources

6. Managing Resources and Files

7. Managing Applications

8. Servers and Cloud Infrastructure

9. External Tools and the Puppet Ecosystem

10. Monitoring, Reporting, and Troubleshooting

11. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Writing Better Manifests

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Using arrays of resources
Using resource defaults
Using defined types
Using tags
Using run stages
Using roles and profiles
Using data types in Puppet
Passing parameters to classes
Passing parameters from Hiera
Writing reusable, cross-platform manifests
Getting information about the environment
Importing dynamic information
Passing arguments to shell commands

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Authors (1)

Thomas Uphill

Thomas Uphill

Thomas Uphill (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasuphill) is a long-time user of Puppet. He has presented Puppet tutorials at LOPSA-East, Cascada, and PuppetConf. He has also been a system administrator for over 20 years, working primarily with RedHat systems; he is currently a RedHat Certified Architect (RHCA). When not running the Puppet User Group of Seattle (PUGS), he volunteers for the LOPSA board and his local LOPSA chapter, SASAG. He blogs at http://ramblings.narrabilis.com.

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