You're reading from Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers

Product type Book

Published in Jun 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803231709

Pages 416 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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DevOps

Author (1):

David Sandilands

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

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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IDEs and tools to assist in Puppet development

One of the greatest issues with early Puppet development was the lack of a consensus around how to develop and a lack of integration. As discussed in Chapter 1 this changed greatly around the time Puppet 5 was released. This section highlights some tools as opinionated recommendations based on usage and experience in Puppet, and most of them will be used in the labs and demonstrations. This is certainly not the only way to develop Puppet code, and your organization might require the usage of different tools depending on the environment.

The PDK is central to how Puppet development has changed for the better and will be discussed, in full, in Chapter 8. It bundles various elements of tooling for creating modules, linting, and testing and allows them to be run from the pdk command. Previously, Puppet developers had to gather the tools, install dependencies, and then run each of the various commands that pdk is made up of.

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