Definitive Puppet training course description

Puppet is a framework and toolset for configuration management. This course covers Puppet to enable delegates to manage configurations. Hands on sessions follow all the major sections.

What will you learn

• Deploy Puppet.
• Manage configurations with Puppet.
• Build hosts with Puppet.
• Produce reports with Puppet.

Definitive Puppet training course details

Definitive Puppet training course contents

• Getting started with Puppet

What is Puppet, Selecting the right version of Puppet, Installing Puppet, Configuring Puppet.

• Developing and deploying Puppet

The puppet apply command and modes of operation, Foreground Puppet master, Developing Puppet with Vagrant, Environments, Making changes to the development environment, Testing the new environments with the Puppet agent, Environment branching and merging, Dynamic Puppet environments with Git branches, Summary, Resources.

• Scaling Puppet

Identifying the challenges, Running the Puppet master with Apache and Passenger, Testing the Puppet master in Apache, Load balancing multiple Puppet masters, Scaling further, Load balancing alternatives. Measuring performance, Splay time, Summary, Going further, Resources.

• Externalizing Puppet configuration

External node classification, Storing node configuration in LDAP, Summary, Resources.

• Exporting and storing configuration

Virtual resources, Getting started with exported and stored configurations, Using exported resources, Expiring state resources, Summary, Resources.

• Puppet consoles

The foreman, Puppet enterprise console, Puppetboard, Summary, Resources.

• Tools and integration

Puppet forge and the module tool, Searching and installing a module from the forge, Generating a module, Managing module dependencies, Testing the modules, Developing Puppet modules with Geppetto, Summary, Resources.

• Reporting with Puppet

Getting started, Configuring reporting, Report processors, Custom reporting, Other Puppet reporters, Summary, Resources.

• Extending Facter and Puppet

Writing and distributing custom facts, Developing custom types, providers and functions, Summary, Resources, Complex data structures, Additional backends, Hiera functions in depth, Module data bindings, Hiera examples. Jiera-2, Summary, Resources.

• Mcollective

Installing and configuring Mcollective, testing, Mcollective plugins, accessing hosts with Metadata.

• Hiera

Lists, initial Hiera configuration, Hiera command line utility, complex data structures, additional backends, Hiera functions in depth, module data bindings. Hiera-2.

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