Mastering Puppet Training Course

Mastering Puppet

Note: During the Covid-19 crisis, courses will only be delivered over the web

4 days hands-on £1,940+VAT

This course can be delivered over the web

Next scheduled date:
Tuesday May 2^nd, 2023 Enrol Now!

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Puppet installation, configuration, usage and extension

Outline

Introduction

The Puppet Architecture
Master and agents
System facts

Getting Started

Installation
Configuration
Certificate administration
Starting the system
Environments

Resources and Nodes

How resources work
Declaring resources
Using common resource types
Functions
Node declarations
Conditional constructs
Node inheritance
Resource relationships and ordering
Code compression

Classes and Defined Types

Defining classes
Declaring classes
Parameterised classes
Class inheritance
Defined Types
Tags
Resource collectors
Virtual resources

Modules

Module layout
Autoloading
File serving
Puppet Forge

Stored Configurations and Reporting

Installing PuppetDB
Configuring PuppetDB
Configuring reports
Graphical reports
Installing Puppet Dashboard
Using Dashboard
Exported resources

External Node Classification

ENC basics
Using Dashboard as an ENC
Using Hiera as an ENC

Extending Puppet

Adding reports
Adding facts
Adding resources
Adding providers
Adding Hiera backends

Scaling and Best Practices

Configuration options
Offloading tasks from the master
Upgrading the web server
Multiple masters
Security

Puppet Enterprise

Differences between Enterprise and Open Source
Enterprise components
Installing Enterprise
The Enterprise Console

MCollective

The MCollective architecture
Installing MCollective
Plugins installed with Puppet Enterprise
The command-line interface
The Enterprise Console interface

Overview

Puppet provides a central facility to manage a network of computers with different architectures and different operating systems. Systems administrators need only specify the desired state of the systems and Puppet will ensure that each node remains in or returns to the desired state. This provides high reliability and easy recoverability. It also makes it easy to build multiple systems with the same configuration.

This course has a high hands-on content so that participants can apply the theoretical concepts.

Objectives

On successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Understand the Puppet architecture
Deploy system configurations using best practices in a master/agent network
Install puppet and its dependencies
Configure the master and agent nodes
Understand Puppet resources, classes, defined types and nodes
Use features of the Puppet DSL
Use different methods of node classification
Write and install module-based manifests
Understand the differences between the Open Source and Enterprise versions
Use MCollective for orchestration

Audience

This course is for Unix and Linux systems administrators who wish to use Puppet to manage their configurations.

Prerequisites

Experience of Unix and/or Linux systems administration, up to the level covered in the Unix System Administration course is assumed. Familiarity with Ruby is an advantage but not essential as the relevant features of the language are introduced where necessary in the course.

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