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Mastering Puppet 5

You're reading from   Mastering Puppet 5 Optimize enterprise-grade environment performance with Puppet

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831864
Length 292 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jason Southgate Jason Southgate
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Preface 1. Authoring Modules FREE CHAPTER 2. Roles and Profiles 3. Extending Puppet 4. Hiera 5 5. Managing Code 6. Workflow 7. Continuous Integration 8. Extending Puppet with Tasks and Discovery 9. Exported Resources 10. Application Orchestration 11. Scaling Puppet 12. Troubleshooting and Profiling 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Puppet workflow

A workflow is a series of processes that work flows through, from initiation to completion. As the Puppet environments become more complex in an organization, a trusted and shared workflow will make sharing work easier. A Puppet workflow should allow us to access code, edit code, test our code, and, eventually, deploy our code back to the Puppet Master. Although it is not required, it is highly recommended that an organization or group of workers adopt a shared workflow. A shared workflow possesses a few main benefits, as follows:

  • A measurable ease of use
  • Rapid feedback
  • Ease of onboarding
  • Quality control

Ease of use

The primary reason to design and begin a workflow is to provide for ease of use. A team should...

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