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Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785885686

Length 316 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Puppet

Concepts

Configuration Management

Authors (2):

Alessandro Franceschi

Jaime Soriano Pastor

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support

1. Puppet Essentials FREE CHAPTER

The Puppet ecosystem
Puppet components
Installing and configuring Puppet
Puppet in action
Variables, facts, and scopes
Meta parameters
Managing order and dependencies
Reserved names and allowed characters
Conditionals
Comparison operators
Iteration and lambdas
Exported resources
Modules
Restoring files from a filebucket
Summary

2. Managing Puppet Data with Hiera

Installing and configuring Hiera
Working with the command line on a YAML backend
Using Hiera in Puppet
Additional Hiera backends
Using Hiera as an ENC
Summary

3. Introducing PuppetDB

Installation and configuration
Dashboards
PuppetDB API
Querying PuppetDB for fun and profit
The puppetdbquery module
How Puppet code may change in the future
Summary

4. Designing Puppet Architectures

Components of a Puppet architecture
The Foreman
Roles and profiles
The data and the code
Sample architectures
Summary

5. Using and Writing Reusable Modules

Modules layout evolution
The parameters dilemma
Reusability patterns
Summary

6. Higher Abstraction Modules

The OpenStack example
An approach to reusable stack modules
Tiny Puppet
Summary

7. Puppet Migration Patterns

Examining potential scenarios and approaches
Patterns for extending Puppet coverage
Things change
Summary

8. Code Workflow Management

Write Puppet code
Git workflows
Code review
Testing Puppet code
Deploying Puppet code
Propagating Puppet changes
Puppet continuous integration
Summary

9. Scaling Puppet Infrastructures

Scaling Puppet
Measuring performance
Summary

10. Extending Puppet

Anatomy of a Puppet run, under the hood
Puppet extension alternatives
Custom functions
Custom facts
Custom types and providers
Custom report handlers
Custom faces
Summary

11. Beyond the System

Puppet on network equipment
Puppet for cloud and virtualization
Puppet on storage devices
Puppet and Docker
Summary

12. Future Puppet

Changing the serialization format
Direct Puppet
Other changes
Beyond Puppet 4.x
Summary

Index

What you need for this book

You can test the Puppet code present in this book on any Linux system connected to the Internet.

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