Pro Puppet Author: William Van Hevelingen | Language: English | ISBN:
1430260408 | Format: PDF
Pro Puppet Description
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!
What you’ll learn
- How to use Puppet to administer Linux, Unix, and Windows systems
- Best practices for at-scale deployment
- How to write reusable puppet modules for yourself and for the community
- How to use numerous tools around Puppet such as rspec-puppet, Geppetto, and PuppetDB
- Advanced Puppet Features such as Hiera and Mcollective
Who this book is for
System administrators who need to quickly get into the details of configuration management with Puppet. You don't need previous Puppet experience, but it will help if you've had some experience with configuration management.
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 - Paperback: 332 pages
- Publisher: Apress; 2 edition (December 9, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430260408
- ISBN-13: 978-1430260400
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
This book would be VERY helpful but it's like whole sections of explanation are missing!! The Class names and file names are interchanged you're never really sure what platform the author(s) are working from or if they even talked to one another. Where was the editor, they should be fired.
I wish I had paid attention to the other reviewer before wasting my money on this book. Being new to puppet, this book will leave you confused, and you will NOT get apache running using the directions provided. The so-called example code from the site is even worse, it only goes to chapter 3.
Please DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. I'm working on getting my money back.
By Howard Coles Jr.
I read the first edition of this book and enjoyed it, and have found the second edition an even better resource. The second edition has brought in many useful updates to keep up with the rapidly-changing puppet ecosystem. The book is written clearly and teaches how a puppet newbie can get a successfully running puppet 3.x environment up and running, and also has plenty for the experienced puppet user to learn (eg scaling puppet, best practices, hiera).
The gold standard in puppet books, highly recommended.
By Ryan Anderson
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