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Extending Puppet
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Extending Puppet

by Alessandro Franceschi
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
328 pages
7h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Puppet for cloud and virtualization

Puppet is a child of our times; the boom of virtualization and cloud computing have boosted the need and diffusion of software-management tools that can accelerate the deployment and scaling of new systems.

Puppet can be used to manage the following aspects related to cloud computing and virtualization:

  • Configure virtualization and cloud solutions such as VMware, OpenStack, and Eucalyptus. This is done with different modules for different operating systems.
  • Provide commands to provision instances on different clouds such as Amazon AWS, Google Compute Engine, and VMware. This is done with the cloud provisioner module.

Let's review the most relevant projects in these fields.

VMware

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ISBN: 9781783981441Supplemental Content