Puppet: Mastering Infrastructure Automation (English Edition): Gain key skills to manage your IT infrastructure and succeed with everyday IT automation - Softcover

Frank, Felix; Alfke, Martin; Franceschi, Alessandro

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788399706 ISBN 13: 9781788399708

Verlag: Packt Publishing, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Start pulling the strings of your IT infrastructure effectively with Puppet - learn how to configure, customize and manage your systems more intelligently in an enterprise deployment.

Key Features:

- Step-by-step instructions to jump start your Puppet deployment and automate your IT configurations

- Design, implement, and deploy Puppet in your infrastructure and tackle everyday IT infrastructure challenges

- Gain expert understanding of Puppet's latest and most advanced features

Book Description:

Puppet is a configuration management tool that allows you to automate all your IT configurations, giving you control. It was written for and by system administrators to manage large numbers of systems efficiently and prevent configuration drifts. Puppet gives you control of what you do to each node, when you do it, and how you do it.This Learning Path will take you from the basics of Puppet to extending it and then mastering it. We will start off with a primer on Puppet, its installation and get a sneak peek under its hood. We will then move on to designing and deploying your Puppet architecture, learning best practices for writing reusable and maintainable code, and executing, testing, and deploying Puppet across your systems. Finally, we will deal with problems of scale and exceptions in your code, automate workflows, and support multiple developers working simultaneously.This course is based on the following books:

- Puppet 4 Essentials - Second Edition

- Extending Puppet - Second Edition

- Mastering Puppet - Second Edition

What You Will Learn:

- Write and employ individual Puppet manifests

- Understand how Puppet implements system abstraction

- Use Puppet to manage network, cloud, and virtualization devices

- Manage and test the Puppet code workflow

- Tweak, hack, and adapt the Puppet extension points

- Use exported resources to orchestrate change between machines

- Debug a puppetserver using Java techniques

Who this book is for:

If you're an experienced IT professional and a new Puppet user, this course will provide you with all you need to know to go from installation to advanced automation.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Felix Frank has used and programmed computers for most of his life. During and after working on his computer science diploma, he gained experience on the job as a systems administrator, server operator, and open source software developer. He spent 6 years of his 11-year career as a Puppet power user. In parallel, he spent about two years intensifying his studies through ongoing source code contributions and active participation in several conferences.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1788399706
• ISBN 13: 9781788399708
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 796
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland