Download e-book for iPad: Mastering Puppet - Second Edition by Thomas Uphill

Key Features

• This publication is a sophisticated advisor to utilizing and deploying Puppet four on your association with a distinct specialize in concerns confronted in higher firm deployments
• From an skilled writer, learn how to take care of scaling, functionality, and a number of builders with assistance from real-world examples
• This is the main up to date advisor on Puppet, and covers the complex thoughts of Puppet 4

Book Description

Puppet is a configuration administration approach and a language. It used to be written for and via process directors to regulate huge numbers of platforms successfully and forestall configuration drifts.

Mastering Puppet offers with the problems confronted while scaling out Puppet to deal with huge numbers of nodes. it's going to aid you healthy Puppet into your online business and make allowance many builders to paintings in your Puppet code concurrently. furthermore, you are going to learn how to write customized proof and roll your individual modules to unravel difficulties. subsequent, well known techniques for appearing reporting and orchestration projects could be brought during this e-book. relocating over to troubleshooting ideas, to be able to be very necessary. The suggestions offered are precious to any measurement organization.

By the tip of the e-book, you are going to understand how to house difficulties of scale and exceptions on your code, automate workflows, and help a number of builders operating simultaneously.

What you'll learn

• Scale out your Puppet infrastructure utilizing proxying techniques
• Automate your code promoting workflow utilizing Git and r10k
• Solve real-world difficulties utilizing public modules from the Puppet Forge
• Use Hiera to split the information of your configuration from the code of your configuration
• Write your personal customized proof in Ruby
• Extend Puppet along with your personal customized proof, modules, and types
• Use exported assets to orchestrate swap among machines
• Debug a puppetserver utilizing Java techniques

About the Author

Thomas Uphill is a long-time consumer of Puppet. He has offered Puppet tutorials at LOPSA-East, Cascada, and PuppetConf. He has additionally been a approach administrator for over two decades, operating essentially with RedHat structures; he's at present a RedHat qualified Architect (RHCA). while no longer operating the Puppet person staff of Seattle (PUGS), he volunteers for the LOPSA board and his neighborhood LOPSA bankruptcy, SASAG. He blogs at http://ramblings.narrabilis.com.

Table of Contents

1. Dealing with Load/Scale
2. Organizing Your Nodes and Data
3. Git and Environments
4. Public Modules
5. Custom evidence and Modules
6. Custom Types
7. Reporting and Orchestration
8. Exported Resources
9. Roles and Profiles
10. Troubleshooting