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Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803231709
Pages 416 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
David Sandilands David Sandilands
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Introduction to Puppet and the Basics of the Puppet Language
2. Chapter 1: Puppet Concepts and Practices 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 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the structure of projects

A Bolt project is a simple directory structure providing configuration and data for Bolt to use. Within this structure, Puppet modules from both Forge and private repositories can be stored along with task plans and policies. Bolt identifies a directory as a Bolt project if a bolt-project.yaml file exists in it, and this file contains a name key. To create this file, run bolt project init for Unix systems or New-BoltProject for PowerShell from within a directory in which you wish to add Bolt project files. This will use the name for the project as the name of the directory, but you can override this by running it with a name using the bolt project init customname or New-BoltProject -Name customname command, for Unix systems and PowerShell, respectively.

This project name must start with a lowercase letter and can only use lowercase letters, digits, and underscores. This is because Bolt projects are like modules and get loaded into the module...

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