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Pro Puppet

Overview

Pro Puppet, Second Edition, now updated for Puppet 3, is an in-depth guide to installing, using, and developing the popular configuration management tool Puppet.

Puppet provides a way to automate everything from user management to server configuration. You'll learn how Puppet has changed in the latest version, how to use it on a variety of platforms, including Windows, how to work with Puppet modules, and how to use Hiera.

Puppet is a must-have tool for system administrators, and Pro Puppet will teach you how to maximize its capabilities and customize it for your environment.

Install and configure Puppet to immediately start automating tasks and create reporting solutions

Learn insider tricks and techniques to better manage your infrastructure

Become a Puppet expert!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781430260400
Publisher: Apress
Publication date: 12/19/2013
Edition description: 2nd ed.
Pages: 332
Product dimensions: 7.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

James Turnbull is the author of five technical books about open source software and a longtime member of the open source community. James authored the first and second books about Puppet, and works for Puppet Labs, running client services. James speaks regularly at conferences including OSCON, Linux.conf.au, FOSDEM, OpenSourceBridge, DevOpsDays and a number of others. He is a past president of Linux Australia, has run Linux.conf.au and serves on the program committee of Linux.conf.au and OSCON. James is Australian but currently lives in Portland, Oregon. His interests include cooking, wine, political theory, photojournalism, philosophy, and most recently the Portland Timbers association football team.

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Table of Contents

• Getting Started with Puppet
• Building Hosts with Puppet
• Working with Environments
• Scaling Puppet
• Externalizing Puppet Configuration
• Exporting and Storing Configuration
• Puppet Consoles
• Tools and Integration
• Reporting with Puppet
• Extending Facter and Puppet
• MCollective
• Hiera: Separating Data From Code
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