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Puppet 4.10 Beginner???s Guide, Second Edition

You're reading from Puppet 4.10 Beginner???s Guide, Second Edition From newbie to pro with Puppet 4.10

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787124004

Length 268 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Puppet

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

John Arundel

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting started with Puppet FREE CHAPTER

2. Creating your first manifests

3. Managing your Puppet code with Git

4. Understanding Puppet resources

5. Variables, expressions, and facts

6. Managing data with Hiera

7. Mastering modules

8. Classes, roles, and profiles

9. Managing files with templates

10. Controlling containers

11. Orchestrating cloud resources

12. Putting it all together

Index

Chapter 6. Managing data with Hiera

What you don't know can't hurt you.

—Edward S. Marshall

In this chapter, you will learn why it's useful to separate your data and code. You will see how to set up Puppet's built-in Hiera mechanism; how to use it to store and query configuration data, including encrypted secrets such as passwords; and how to use Hiera data to create Puppet resources.

Managing data with Hiera

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Authors (1)

John Arundel

John Arundel

John Arundel is a DevOps consultant, which means he helps people build world-class web operations teams and infrastructures and has fun doing it. He was formerly a senior operations engineer at global telco Verizon, designing resilient, high-performance infrastructures for major corporations such as Ford, McDonald's, and Bank of America. He is now an independent consultant, working closely with selected clients to deliver web-scale performance and enterprise-grade resilience on a startup budget. He likes writing books, especially about Puppet (Puppet 2.7 Cookbook and Puppet 3 Cookbook are available from Packt). He also provides training and coaching on Puppet and DevOps, which, it turns out, is far harder than simply doing the work himself. Off the clock, he is a medal-winning, competitive rifle and pistol shooter and a decidedly uncompetitive piano player. He lives in a small cottage in Cornwall, England and believes, like Cicero, that, if you have a garden and a library, then you have everything you need. You may like to follow him on Twitter at @bitfield.

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