Jump-start your Puppet deployment using engaging and practical recipes
About This Book
- Quickly grasp recipes that work with centralized and decentralized deployments
- Explore language differences and enhancements anticipated in Puppet version 4
- Gain expert understanding of Puppet's latest and most advanced features
- Step-by-step detailed recipes that help you take control of your servers and desktops
Who This Book Is For
This book is for anyone who builds and administers servers, especially in a web operations context. It requires some experience of Linux systems administration, including familiarity with the command line, file system, and text editing. No programming experience is required.
What You Will Learn
- Install and set up Puppet for the first time
- Discover the latest, most advanced, and experimental features of Puppet
- Bootstrap your Puppet installation
- Master techniques to deal with centralized and decentralized Puppet deployments
- Use exported resources and forge modules
- Create efficient manifests to streamline your deployments
- Automate Puppet master deployment using Git hooks, r10k, and PuppetDB
- Make Puppet reliable, performant, and scalable
In Detail
Puppet is a configuration management system that automates all your IT configurations, giving you control of what you do to each node, when you do it, and how you do it.
Puppet Cookbook Third Edition takes the reader from a basic knowledge of Puppet to a complete and expert understanding of Puppet's latest and most advanced features. Updated with the latest advancements and best practices, it gives you a clear view on how to "connect the dots" and expands your knowledge to successfully use and extend Puppet.
This book delves into various aspects of writing good Puppet code, which includes using Puppet community style, checking your manifests with puppet-lint, and learning community best practices, with an emphasis on real-world implementation.
Thomas Uphill
Thomas Uphill is an RHCA who has been using Puppet since 0.24. He has worked as a system administrator for almost 20 years, most recently with RHEL systems. He recently wrote Mastering Puppet, Packt Publishing a book for managing Puppet in large deployments. He has given tutorials on Puppet at LISA and LOPSA-East. When not at the Puppet User Group of Seattle (PUGS), he can be found at http://ramblings.narrabilis.com.
John Arundel
John Arundel has worked in the IT industry for most of his life, and during that time has done wrong (or seen others do wrong) almost everything that you can do wrong with computers. That comprehensive knowledge of what not to do, he feels, is one of his greatest assets as a consultant. He is still adding to it. He spent much of his career working in very large corporations and, as a result, now likes to work with very small corporations. They like working with him too, not only because he can tell them about things that should not be done, but also because he can confidently inform them that big companies don't know what they're doing either. Off the clock, he enjoys gardening, competitive rifle shooting, and other gentle hobbies. You can follow him on Twitter @bitfield. If your company is small enough, you can hire him there too.
