Learning Puppet 4:: A Guide to Configuration Management and Automation

by Jo Rhett

If you're a system administrator, developer, or site reliability engineer responsible for handling hundreds or even thousands of nodes in your network, the Puppet configuration management tool will make your job a whole lot easier. This practical guide shows you what Puppet does, how it works, and how it can provide significant value to your organization.

Through hands-on tutorials, DevOps engineer Jo Rhett demonstrates how Puppet manages complex and distributed components to ensure service availability. You’ll learn how to secure configuration consistency across servers, clients, your router, and even that computer in your pocket by setting up your own testing environment.

Learn exactly what Puppet is, why it was created, and what problems it solves Tailor Puppet to your infrastructure with a design that meets your specific needs Write declarative Puppet policies to produce consistency in your systems Build, test, and publish your own Puppet modules Manage network devices such as routers and switches with puppet device and integrated Puppet agents Scale Puppet servers for high availability and performance Explore web dashboards and orchestration tools that supplement and complement Puppet

Genres: Reference

588 pages, Paperback

First published October 25, 2015

About the author

Jo Rhett is a DevOps/Site Reliability engineer with 25 years of experience conceptualizing and delivering large-scale Internet services. He creates automation and infrastructure to accelerate deployment and minimize outages. Jo's technical books focus on practical, hands-on advice and best practices.

Jo also has a few pieces of published short science fiction.

Reviews

[Martin · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's very solid if you have some Vagrant/sysadmin/DevOps background.

The book provides you a github repo with a vagrant environment, but some of the demos didn't seem to work and I noticed they worked when I do my own vagrants, you should be careful about that.

The book explains well everything from the basics of the puppet language to how to handle a couple of Clusters, it's done a good job for me me even though I'm working on 3.8 projects.