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Learning Puppet

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Manage your infrastructure more efficiently with Puppet, the IT automation platform. Learn best practices for using Puppet in a real-world environment.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know
  • Using the exercise files
1. Puppet Overview
  • What is Puppet?
2. Setting Up a Dev Environment
  • Create a sandbox
  • Install your Puppet master
  • Version control
  • Set up a control repo
3. First Steps with Puppet
  • Built-in resource types
  • Manage a file in site.pp
  • Classes
  • Introduction to the Forge
  • The NGINX module
  • Editing the Puppetfile
  • Roles and profiles
  • Roles and profiles demo
4. Managing More Nodes
  • Manage more nodes
  • Expand site.pp
  • Connect agent nodes to the master
  • Orchestration in Puppet
  • Understand the Puppet run
  • Facter
  • Challenge: Installing SSH and adding hosts
  • Solution: Installing SSH and adding hosts
5. Modules
  • What is a module?
  • Write modules: Write manually
  • Write modules: Write the code
  • Write modules: Test your module
  • Get the order right
  • Use parameters
  • Templates
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Josh Samuelson

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