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Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers

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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21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

For this chapter, you will need to provision a Puppet server standard architecture with a Windows client and a Linux client by downloading the params.json file from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Puppet-8-for-DevOps-Engineers/blob/main/ch05/params.json and then using the following command from your pecdm directory:

bolt --verbose plan run pecdm::provision –params @params.json

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Authors (1)

David Sandilands

David Sandilands

David Sandilands is a principal solutions architect at Puppet, with a focus on the product management of Puppet's development ecosystem and integrations. This includes management of the Forge, supported modules, the Puppet Developer Kit, and integrations such as ServiceNow and Splunk. Before this, David worked within Puppet's solutions architect team, helping Puppet's largest customers deliver infrastructure automation at scale, and supported these customers in their DevOps working practices. He spent eight years at NatWest as a cloud infrastructure engineer delivering their IaaS platform. Based in Falkirk, Scotland, David has a Bachelor of Engineering in computer science from the University of Edinburgh.

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