Pulling Strings with Puppet Configuration Management Made Easy by Turnbull, James [Apress,2008]

by James Turnbull

Pulling Strings with Puppet Configuration Management Made Easy by Turnbull, James. Published by Apress,2008, Paperback

Genres: Technology, Technical, Programming, Nonfiction

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Bryan Mclellan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book didn't meet my needs in formatting before anything else. It's an absolutely terrible desktop reference, starting with the lack of a useful index. one may argue that the internet is a better reference because it's more up to date, but when you're learning a new language I've found it essential to be able to look up terms in the book sitting on my lap quickly.

I learn more by doing than by reading usually. As a tutorial the book spread the topics out into too many chunks. This didn't lead well to following along in the book as you try out some tasks.

Being the only puppet book on the market, it served the purpose of something to read at night a chapter at a time to fill in the concepts I was using during the day at work. I would recommend using it as such.

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good introduction to Puppet but I was left wanting. The book doesn't have an index and could have been about 100 pages to be really useful.

On the plus side the length meant I could finish it quickly and there are plenty of references to online material to help fill in the gaps.

[Mike Benner · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good book, but hard to get going with. It is slightly out of date. I recommend starting with the online tutorials first and then jumping to Chapter 3 and reading from there.

[Kevin Powe · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good basic primer to Puppet Gave a strong grasp of the basic concepts, plenty of references throughout on where to dig for deeper information.

[Richard Slater · Rating 3 out of 5]

reasonable guide, good reference

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

Insightful look at a neat tool.