Thomas Uphill

Puppet Cookbook - Third Edition

Master Puppet for configuration management of your systems in an enterprise deployment About This Book This book is an advanced guide to using and deploying Puppet 4 in your organization with a special focus on issues faced in larger enterprise deployments From an experienced author, learn to deal with scaling, performance, and multiple developers with the help of real-world examples This is the most up-to-date guide on Puppet, and covers the advanced concepts of Puppet 4 Who This Book Is For This book is for those who have intermediate knowledge of Puppet and are looking to deploy it in their environment. Some idea how to write simple modules for configuration management with Puppet is a prerequisite for this book. What You Will Learn Scale out your Puppet infrastructure using proxying techniques Automate your code promotion workflow using Git and r10k Solve real-world problems using public modules from the Puppet Forge Use Hiera to separate the data of your configuration from the code of your configuration Write your own custom facts in Ruby Extend Puppet with your own custom facts, modules, and types Use exported resources to orchestrate change between machines Debug a puppetserver using Java techniques In Detail Puppet is a configuration management system and a language. It was written for and by system administrators to manage large numbers of systems efficiently and prevent configuration drifts. Mastering Puppet deals with the issues faced when scaling out Puppet to handle large numbers of nodes. It will show you how to fit Puppet into your enterprise and allow many developers to work on your Puppet code simultaneously. In addition, you will learn to write custom facts and roll your own modules to solve problems. Next, popular options for performing reporting and orchestration tasks will be introduced in this book. Moving over to troubleshooting techniques, which will be very useful. The concepts presented are useful to any size organization. By the end of the book, you will know how to deal with problems of scale and exceptions in your code, automate workflows, and support multiple developers working simultaneously. Style and approach This book is a step-wise guide packed with examples to help you configure complex systems in Puppet.

Mastering Puppet

John Arundel

Hideto Saito

Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee

Neependra Khare

Ke-Jou Carol Hsu

Get hands-on recipes to automate and manage Linux containers with the Docker 1.6 environment and jump-start your Puppet development About This Book Successfully deploy DevOps with proven solutions and recipes Automate your infrastructure with Puppet and combine powerful DevOps methods Deploy and manage highly scalable applications using Kubernetes streamline the way you manage your applications Who This Book Is For This Learning Path is for developers, system administrators, and DevOps engineers who want to use Puppet, Docker, and Kubernetes in their development, QA, or production environments. This Learning Path assumes experience with Linux administration and requires some experience with command-line usage and basic text file editing. What You Will Learn Discover how to build high availability Kubernetes clusters Deal with inherent issues with container virtualization and container concepts Create services with Docker to enable the swift development and deployment of applications Make optimum use of Docker in a testing environment Create efficient manifests to streamline your deployments Automate Puppet master deployment using Git hooks, r10k, and PuppetDB In Detail With so many IT management and DevOps tools on the market, both open source and commercial, it's difficult to know where to start. DevOps is incredibly powerful when implemented correctly, and here's how to get it done.This Learning Path covers three broad areas: Puppet, Docker, and Kubernetes. This Learning Path is a large resource of recipes to ease your daily DevOps tasks. We begin with recipes that help you develop a complete and expert understanding of Puppet's latest and most advanced features. Then we provide recipes that help you efficiently work with the Docker environment. Finally, we show you how to better manage containers in different scenarios in production using Kubernetes. This course is based on these books: Puppet Cookbook, Third Edition Docker Cookbook Kubernetes Cookbook Style and approach This easy-to-follow tutorial-style guide teaches you precisely how to configure complex systems in Puppet and manage your containers using Kubernetes.

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