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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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Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the services provided by the Puppet server and how the embedded web server attaches handlers to mount points, which can then be requested via HTTP requests to endpoints.

It was shown that the /puppet endpoint provides services for configuration requests and how indirectors or environments can request specific components such as requesting a catalog from a server. The /puppet-ca endpoint similarly used indirectors to allow for requests to the CA. The /puppet-admin-api endpoint was then shown to allow for clearing the environment cache and JRuby instances as more advanced administrative actions.

It was then shown how Puppet creates a CA server with a root CA and an intermediate CA to sign or can run in legacy mode with a single combined CA. The options for using externally provided certificates were then discussed. The process of signing certificate requests was shown, with the puppetserver certificate command for managing certificates...