Puppet 5 Beginner's Guide - Third Edition: Go from newbie to pro with Puppet 5

by John Arundel

Puppet 5 Beginner's Guide, Third Edition is a practical guide that gets you up and running with the very latest features of Puppet 5. Puppet 5 Beginner's Guide, Third Edition is designed for those who are new to Puppet, including system administrators and developers who are looking to manage computer server systems for configuration management. No prior programming or system administration experience is assumed. Puppet 5 Beginner's Guide, Third Edition gets you up and running with the very latest features of Puppet 5, including Docker containers, Hiera data, and Amazon AWS cloud orchestration. Go from beginner to confident Puppet user with a series of clear, practical examples to help you manage every aspect of your server setup. Whether you're a developer, a system administrator, or you are simply curious about Puppet, you'll learn Puppet skills that you can put into practice right away. With practical steps giving you the key concepts you need, this book teaches you how to install packages and config files, create users, set up scheduled jobs, provision cloud instances, build containers, and so much more. Every example in this book deals with something real and practical that you're likely to need in your work, and you'll see the complete Puppet code that makes it happen, along with step-by-step instructions for what to type and what output you'll see. All the examples are available in a GitHub repo for you to download and adapt for your own server setup. This tutorial is packed with quick step-by-step instructions that are immediately applicable for beginners. This is an easy-to-read guide, to learn Puppet from scratch, that explains simply and clearly all you need to know to use this essential IT power tool, while applying these solutions to real-world scenarios.

Genres: Technology

266 pages, Paperback

Published October 5, 2017

Reviews

[Dimitris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent introduction to Puppet v5. I can't stress enough how well-written, easy to read and well-paced this book is - it's just a breeze to read through.

I've learn Puppet v3 empirically and this book has helped me transition to v5, as well as fill in all the knowledge gaps I had, especially where Hiera was involved.

I would wholeheartedly recommend this book to any novice Puppet user.

[Nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent, but written for people who’ve never learned a programming language - true, absolute beginners. For anyone who has done anything with anything with a programming I their life, sections of the book are unnecessary and parts come across as condescending, but I recommend not skipping those parts as important information is buried in the dross.

[Panos Matsinopoulos · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good introduction to Puppet. I recommend it for anyone that does not have idea what Puppet is and want to learn the basics.