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Puppet Cookbook - Third Edition - Third Edition
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Puppet Cookbook - Third Edition - Third Edition

by Thomas Uphill, John Arundel
February 2015
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
6h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 9. External Tools and the Puppet Ecosystem

 

"By all means leave the road when you wish. That is precisely the use of a road: to reach individually chosen points of departure."

 
 --Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Creating custom facts
  • Adding external facts
  • Setting facts as environment variables
  • Generating manifests with the Puppet resource command
  • Generating manifests with other tools
  • Using an external node classifier
  • Creating your own resource types
  • Creating your own providers
  • Creating custom functions
  • Testing your Puppet manifests with rspec-puppet
  • Using librarian-puppet
  • Using r10k

Introduction

Puppet is a useful tool by itself, but you can get much greater benefits by using Puppet ...

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ISBN: 9781784394882