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Learning Puppet Security
Learning Puppet Security

Learning Puppet Security: Secure your IT environments with the powerful security tools of Puppet

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If you are a security professional whose workload is increasing, or a Puppet professional looking to increase your knowledge of security, or even an experienced systems administrator, then this book is for you. This book will take you to the next level of security automation using Puppet. The book requires no prior knowledge of Puppet to get started.

Who is this book for?

If you are a security professional whose workload is increasing, or a Puppet professional looking to increase your knowledge of security, or even an experienced systems administrator, then this book is for you. This book will take you to the next level of security automation using Puppet. The book requires no prior knowledge of Puppet to get started.

What you will learn

  • Use Puppet manifests to show system compliance and track changes to the operating system resources
  • Generate security reports using PuppetDB to show that the systems are up to date
  • Automate CIS compliance using community modules
  • Configure firewalls automatically based on roles
  • Demystify the Puppet SSL stack
  • Set up centralized logging with dashboard search functionality using Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana
  • Configure your systems to be secure automatically using SELinux with Puppet
  • Use Puppet to assist with PCI DSS compliance

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Publication date : Mar 27, 2015
Length: 236 pages
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JORGE CARLOS FRANCO Apr 16, 2015
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A very useful resource to learn something about how get your Puppet environment secure and without annoyances.
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puppetfans May 28, 2015
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Tt is a good learning puppet information, very good to share,thanks
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Jascha Casadio May 19, 2016
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Despite being such a popular and mature configuration management system, the material covering Puppet is still very limited. Even more, titles covering advanced topics, or version 4 of the language, are as rare as unicorn sighting. Learning Puppet Security belongs to this category and is one of those titles we all Puppetters are eager to get our hands on. It targets intermetidate users who know the basics and are interested in securing the castle.Released early 2015, it covers version 3.x of the language—despite a stable 4 was already released—and spans through some 200 pages. As stated, the book is for intermediate users, which means nothing is said about installing and configuring Puppet.The first thing that comes to the mind reading this book is the interesting choice of topics the author has picked. None of them is usually found in any other Puppet title—apart the certification validation—and all of them play an important role in the toolset of any good DevOps or Systems Engineer. Among them, auditing, logging and network security. Validating certificates, as stated, is a typical topic of the very first chapters of any book of Puppet. Nothing new or different here: The discussion is smooth and well laid out, but is limited to the master-agents scenario. It would have certainly been interesting to have some kind of validation covering the masterlless scenario, which is widely used.Talking about auditing, the author starts with the a discussion about how important it is and why, followed by different options to achieve it and, finally, some code. While enjoyable to read, the topic is covered too superficially. The examples should be more real world and complex. And this is a recurring scenario throughout the whole book: many different interesting concepts are taken into the discussion yes, but while something is said, the reader will often find himself with many doubts and open questions.Overall is an interesting book that covers a very specific advanced topic of Puppet. Given its nature and the levels required to the reader, i would have expected something more complex, complete. The reader gets an idea of what topics to investigate next, but is not given much. For example, the chapters covering the ELK stack, provided that the user know how to set it up correctly, come with very basic hello world like examples, not a complete master/agents example that shows data being gathered and analyzed.I am not fully satisfied with this title and, as such, I don’t feel like recommending it.As usual, you can find more reviews on my personal blog: books.lostinmalloc.com. Feel free to pass by and share your thoughts!
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