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Puppet 3: Beginner's Guide

By John Arundel

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Introduction to Puppet
- Introduction to Puppet
- The problem
- Solving the problem
- Infrastructure as code
- What is Puppet?
- Summary
First steps with Puppet
- First steps with Puppet
- What you'll need
- Time for action – preparing for Puppet
- Time for action – installing Puppet
- Your first manifest
- Organizing your manifests
- Time for action – creating a directory structure
- Time for action – creating a node declaration
- Summary
Packages, Files, and Services
- Packages, Files, and Services
- Packages
- Time for action – installing Nginx
- Modules
- Time for action – creating an Nginx module
- Time for action – making a "puppet apply" command
- Services
- Time for action – adding the Nginx service
- Files
- Time for action – deploying a virtual host
- Summary
Managing Puppet with Git
- Managing Puppet with Git
- What is version control?
- Time for action – importing your manifests into Git
- Time for action – committing and inspecting changes
- Distributing Puppet manifests
- Time for action – creating a master Git repo
- Time for action – cloning the repo to a new machine
- Time for action – adding a new node
- Time for action – pushing changes to the master repo
- Time for action – automatic pull-and-apply script
- Learning more about Git
- Summary
Managing users
- Managing users
- Users
- Time for action – creating a user
- Access control
- Time for action – adding an SSH authorized key
- Time for action – deploying an SSH configuration file
- User privileges
- Time for action – deploying a sudoers file
- Summary
Tasks and templates
- Tasks and templates
- Running commands with exec resources
- Time for action – running an arbitrary command
- Scheduled tasks
- Time for action – scheduling a backup
- Distributing files
- Time for action – using a recursive file resource
- Using templates
- Time for action – templating an Nginx virtual host
- Summary
Definitions and Classes
- Definitions and Classes
- Grouping resources into arrays
- Definitions
- Time for action – creating a definition for Nginx websites
- Classes
- Time for action – creating an NTP class
- Summary
Expressions and Logic
- Expressions and Logic
- Conditionals
- Expressions
- Regular expressions
- Arrays and hashes
- Summary
Reporting and troubleshooting
- Reporting and troubleshooting
- Reporting
- Time for action – generating a report
- Debug output
- Monitoring
- Errors
- Summary
Moving on Up
- Moving on Up
- Puppet style
- Puppet learning resources
- Projects
- Last word