Learning Puppet for Windows Server: Organize your Windows environment using Puppet tools to unload administrative burdens in a short time!

Fuat Ulugay

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3.8 (4 Ratings)

eBook Aug 2015 234 pages 1st Edition

Fuat Ulugay

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Puppet is a configuration management tool. It allows you to automate all your IT configurations by giving you control of what you do to each “node” (Puppet agent), focusing also on when and how you do it. In context, Puppet is a cross-platform tool that is widely used for Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems declaratively. However, it has been used more popularly for Unix-like systems. This book provides insights into using Puppet for Windows administration tasks such as server setup, application updates, and service management. This book kicks off with the fundamentals of Puppet by helping you with the installation of Puppet on a Windows server and progresses with the introduction of the Foreman interface for managing Puppet nodes. Next, you deal with the installation of Puppet agents on multiple clients and how to connect them to your Puppet server by grouping your nodes for easy management. You then become familiarized with the scripting of Puppet manifests along with an understanding of the module structure in Puppet. You further move on to the installation of Puppet Forge Modules and their usage in Windows along with advanced topics such as facts, functions and templates. Moreover, you also venture into the security aspects for Windows by gaining insights into various security settings that will make your server and clients more secure from hackers using different attack vectors. You will also use Puppet and Chocolatey to install and update software. You finally round off by learning how to check the details of reporting and status monitoring along with the automation of installing and updating software for multiple Windows clients arming you with ample artillery to tame Puppet for your future projects.

Who is this book for?

This book is for Windows administrators who are looking for ways to automate management tasks of Windows servers and clients. Prior experience in Windows administration and a basic knowledge of Linux and Puppet will help you create wonders using this book.

What you will learn

Install Puppet on a Windows server and Foreman interface to have a userfriendly Puppet working environment
Discover how to install Puppet agents to single or multiple computers and get your hosts connected to Puppetmaster in one shot
Understand all about creating modules, writing manifests, managing files, services and, users in Puppet
Learn how to install Puppet Forge modules to complete tasks such as registry management, ACL, and firewall.
Explore the usage of Puppet facts, functions and modules to have a deeper understanding of how Puppet functions
Manage installation and updates of third party software using Puppet with Chocolatey to completely forgo the manual update chores in your daily plan
Use Puppet for Windows security to have a more secure environment

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Fuat Ulugay Sep 10, 2015

I am the writer of the book. From my point of view even the newcomers can have a good start with this book.The book shows how to do things and does not go too deep into theory. So there are most of step by step details with screenshots showing how to do things.You will start with installation and config of server and after that continue with bulk management of clients. The book starts with basics and continues with more advanced topics. It tries to solve many challenges we meet in Windows environment.I believe that it will be a great help for administrators who want to use Puppet for Windows environment.

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T.M. Dec 06, 2015

After explaining how to install the Puppet server and to deploy the agent, this book covers almost all the tasks of system administration : managing files, users, services and software packages. Many examples of more complex tasks using Ruby scripting are also provided. This book is clearly written and easy to read. I recommend it for system administrators to start using a devops solution.

double Oct 11, 2015

Currently going through the book, enough detail to get you where you want to be, I like that you're not lectured with theory. However, there are spacing errors in almost all of the command line entries so pay close attention. I.e. "sudonano" should be "sudo nano", "classhelloworld" should be "class helloworld". I'm sure it was an issue with printing, one would think that would be checked before printing in volumes. Luckily I know enough about Linux command line to get through it.

Annonymous Dec 15, 2015

I think this a great book though I didnt get very far as I couldn't get foreman working which stopped me in my tracks.

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