Chapter 2. Puppet Infrastructure
"Computers in the future may have as few as 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons." | ||
| --Popular Mechanics, 1949 | ||
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Installing Puppet
- Managing your manifests with Git
- Creating a decentralized Puppet architecture
- Writing a papply script
- Running Puppet from cron
- Bootstrapping Puppet with bash
- Creating a centralized Puppet infrastructure
- Creating certificates with multiple DNS names
- Running Puppet from passenger
- Setting up the environment
- Configuring PuppetDB
- Configuring Hiera
- Setting-node specific data with Hiera
- Storing secret data with hiera-gpg
- Using MessagePack serialization
- Automatic syntax checking with Git hooks
- Pushing code around with Git
- Managing environments with Git
Introduction
In this chapter, ...
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