December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
8h 37m
English
book
Pro Puppet, Second Edition
by Spencer Krum, William Van Hevelingen, Ben Kero, James Turnbull, Jeffery McCune
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CHAPTER 1
Getting Started with Puppet
Puppet is an open source framework and toolset for managing the configuration of computer systems. This book looks at how you can use Puppet to manage your configuration. As the book progresses, we’ll introduce Puppet’s features and show you how to integrate Puppet into your provisioning and management lifecycle. To do this, we’ll take you through configuring a real-world scenario that we’ll introduce in Chapter 2. In Chapter 3, we’ll show you how to implement a successful Puppet workflow using version control and Puppet environments. In Chapter 4, we’ll show you how to build high availability and horizontal ...