July 2014
Beginner
280 pages
5h 36m
English
Overview
Mastering Puppet guides you in optimizing and scaling Puppet for managing enterprise-scale IT environments. With practical examples and clear instructions, you will explore key techniques like writing advanced modules, scaling Puppet masters, and automating configurations to enhance performance.
What this Book will help me do
- Understand and apply scaling strategies for Puppet masters to handle large-scale infrastructures.
- Automate Puppet master deployments effectively using tools like Git Hooks and r10k.
- Leverage Hiera and ENC to manage node configurations and data more seamlessly.
- Create your own custom modules, facts, and types to extend Puppet's capabilities.
- Implement exported resources and orchestrate changes across an enterprise environment.
Author(s)
Thomas Uphill, the author of Mastering Puppet, is an experienced system administrator and consultant specializing in managing complex IT configurations. With years of expertise in deploying, scaling, and customizing Puppet, Thomas shares his insights in an accessible and practical format. He details advanced techniques that empower readers to grasp Puppet configuration management at a professional level.
Who is it for?
This book is ideal for IT professionals and systems administrators familiar with Puppet who want to apply it to manage large-scale environments. Readers aiming to build and deploy Puppet modules for enterprise infrastructures will benefit greatly. Prerequisite knowledge includes intermediate-level skills in configuration management and a basic understanding of Puppet workflows. If you aim to master Puppet for enterprise-level usage, this book is crafted for you.
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