Learning Puppet

Manage your infrastructure more efficiently with Puppet, the IT automation platform. Learn best practices for using Puppet in a real-world environment.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files

1. Puppet Overview

• What is Puppet?

2. Setting Up a Dev Environment

• Create a sandbox
• Install your Puppet master
• Version control
• Set up a control repo

3. First Steps with Puppet

• Built-in resource types
• Manage a file in site.pp
• Classes
• Introduction to the Forge
• The NGINX module
• Editing the Puppetfile
• Roles and profiles
• Roles and profiles demo

4. Managing More Nodes

• Manage more nodes
• Expand site.pp
• Connect agent nodes to the master
• Orchestration in Puppet
• Understand the Puppet run
• Facter
• Challenge: Installing SSH and adding hosts
• Solution: Installing SSH and adding hosts

5. Modules

• What is a module?
• Write modules: Write manually
• Write modules: Write the code
• Write modules: Test your module
• Get the order right
• Use parameters
• Templates

Conclusion

• Next steps