DEFINITIVE PUPPET TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION
Puppet is a framework and toolset for configuration management. This course
covers Puppet to enable delegates to manage configurations. Hands on sessions
follow all the major sections.
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN
* Deploy Puppet.
* Manage configurations with Puppet.
* Build hosts with Puppet.
* Produce reports with Puppet.
DEFINITIVE PUPPET TRAINING COURSE DETAILS
* Who will benefit:
Anyone working with Puppet.
* Prerequisites:
Linux fundamentals.
* Duration
2 days
DEFINITIVE PUPPET TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS
* Getting started with Puppet
What is Puppet, Selecting the right version of Puppet, Installing Puppet,
Configuring Puppet.
* Developing and deploying Puppet
The puppet apply command and modes of operation, Foreground Puppet master,
Developing Puppet with Vagrant, Environments, Making changes to the
development environment, Testing the new environments with the Puppet agent,
Environment branching and merging, Dynamic Puppet environments with Git
branches, Summary, Resources.
* Scaling Puppet
Identifying the challenges, Running the Puppet master with Apache and
Passenger, Testing the Puppet master in Apache, Load balancing multiple
Puppet masters, Scaling further, Load balancing alternatives. Measuring
performance, Splay time, Summary, Going further, Resources.
* Externalizing Puppet configuration
External node classification, Storing node configuration in LDAP, Summary,
Resources.
* Exporting and storing configuration
Virtual resources, Getting started with exported and stored configurations,
Using exported resources, Expiring state resources, Summary, Resources.
* Puppet consoles
The foreman, Puppet enterprise console, Puppetboard, Summary, Resources.
* Tools and integration
Puppet forge and the module tool, Searching and installing a module from the
forge, Generating a module, Managing module dependencies, Testing the
modules, Developing Puppet modules with Geppetto, Summary, Resources.
* Reporting with Puppet
Getting started, Configuring reporting, Report processors, Custom reporting,
Other Puppet reporters, Summary, Resources.
* Extending Facter and Puppet
Writing and distributing custom facts, Developing custom types, providers and
functions, Summary, Resources, Complex data structures, Additional backends,
Hiera functions in depth, Module data bindings, Hiera examples. Jiera-2,
Summary, Resources.
* Mcollective
Installing and configuring Mcollective, testing, Mcollective plugins,
accessing hosts with Metadata.
* Hiera
Lists, initial Hiera configuration, Hiera command line utility, complex data
structures, additional backends, Hiera functions in depth, module data
bindings. Hiera-2.