Mastering Puppet: Pull the Strings of Puppet to Configure Enterprise-grade Environments for Performance Optimization - Brossura

Uphill, Thomas

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1783982187 ISBN 13: 9781783982189

Casa editrice: Packt Publishing, 2014

Riassunto

Pull the strings of Puppet to configure enterprise-grade environments for performance optimization

About This Book

• Implement puppet in a medium to large installation.
• Deal with issues found in larger deployments, such as scaling, and improving performance.
• Step by step tutorial to utilize Puppet efficiently to have a fully functioning Puppet infrastructure in an enterprise- level environment

Who This Book Is For

If you are a system administrator or developer who has used Puppet in production and are looking for ways to easily use Puppet in an enterprise environment, this book is for you. This book assumes an intermediate knowledge of Puppet and is intended for those writing modules or deploying Puppet in an enterprise environment.

What You Will Learn

• Scale out your Puppet masters using proxy techniques
• Automate Puppet master deployment using Git Hooks, r10k, and librarian-puppet
• Access public modules from Git Forge and use them to solve real-world problems
• Use Hiera and ENC to automatically assign modules to nodes
• Create custom modules, facts, and types
• Use exported resources to orchestrate changes across the enterprise

In Detail

Puppet is a configuration management system written for system administrators to manage a large number of systems efficiently and help maintain order.

Mastering Puppetdeals with the issues faced in larger deployments such as scaling and duplicate resource definitions. It will show you how to fit Puppet into your organization and keep everyone working. The concepts presented can be adapted to suit any size organization. This book starts with setting up and installing Puppet in your organization and then moves on to implementing version control in Puppet, creating custom modules, and extending your Puppet infrastructure. Finally, you will learn tips and tricks that are useful when troubleshooting Puppet and the best practices to make you a pro.

Su questo libro

L'autore

Thomas Uphill

Thomas Uphill is an RHCA who has been using Puppet since version 0.24. He has been a system administrator for nearly 20 years, more than 10 of which have been with Red Hat Linux and its derivatives. He has presented tutorials on Puppet at LOPSA-East and has spoken at PuppetConf 2013. He enjoys teaching others how to use Puppet to automate as much system administration tasks as possible. When he's not at the Seattle Puppet Meetup, you can find him at http://ramblings.narrabilis.com.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Packt Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1783982187
• ISBN 13: 9781783982189
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 264
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile