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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Part 3 – The Puppet Platform and Bolt Orchestration

In this part, you will understand how Puppet is structured as a platform, how the various components work together and communicate, and the common architecture approaches used to deliver scale. We will then show the various methods that can be used to classify which code is applied to servers and how code is versioned and deployed to infrastructure. Bolt will be introduced as Puppet’s way of running procedural scripts and code, which can be traditional scripts in various languages or plans based on the Puppet language. We will then review how you can monitor, tune, and integrate Puppet infrastructure with various tools and third-party products.

This part has the following chapters: