What this book covers
Chapter 1, Dealing with Load/Scale, will show you how to scale your Puppet infrastructure as your node count increases.
Chapter 2, Organizing Your Nodes and Data, is where we show different methods of applying modules to nodes. We look at Hiera and external node classifiers (ENCs).
Chapter 3, Git and Environments, introduces Git and how to use Git as an integral component of your Puppet infrastructure.
Chapter 4, Public Modules, shows how to use Puppet Forge as a source of modules and how to use several popular modules in your organization.
Chapter 5, Custom Facts and Modules, is where we extend Puppet with custom facts and start writing our own modules.
Chapter 6, Custom Types, is where we introduce defined types and show how to extend the Puppet language with our own custom types and providers.
Chapter 7, Reporting and Orchestration, is where we configure reporting to help track down errors in our Puppet deployments.
Chapter 8, Exported Resources, explains how useful it is to have resources on one node that can be applied to other nodes in your organization.
Chapter 9, Roles and Profiles, shows a popular design pattern in Puppet node deployments. Here we present the concept and show example usage.
Chapter 10, Troubleshooting, is where we show some common errors found in Puppet deployments, as well as possible solutions.
