Puppet 3 Cookbook

An essential book if you have responsibility for servers. Real-world examples and code will give you Puppet expertise, allowing more control over servers, cloud computing, and desktops. A time-saving, career-enhancing tutorial

Key Features

Use Puppet 3 to take control of your servers and desktops, with detailed step-by-step instructions
Covers all the popular tools and frameworks used with Puppet: Dashboard, Foreman, and more
Teaches you how to extend Puppet with custom functions, types, and providers
Packed with tips and inspiring ideas for using Puppet to automate server builds, deployments, and workflows


Book DescriptionA revolution is happening in web operations. Configuration management tools can build servers in seconds, and automate your entire network. Tools like Puppet are essential to taking full advantage of the power of cloud computing, and building reliable, scalable, secure, high-performance systems. More and more systems administration and IT jobs require some knowledge of configuration management, and specifically Puppet."Puppet 3 Cookbook" takes you beyond the basics to explore the full power of Puppet, showing you in detail how to tackle a variety of real-world problems and applications. At every step it shows you exactly what commands you need to type, and includes full code samples for every recipe.The book takes the reader from a basic knowledge of Puppet to a complete and expert understanding of Puppet's latest and most advanced features, community best practices, writing great manifests, scaling and performance, and extending Puppet by adding your own providers and resources. It starts with guidance on how to set up and expand your Puppet infrastructure, then progresses through detailed information on the language and features, external tools, reporting, monitoring, and troubleshooting, and concludes with many specific recipes for managing popular applications.The book includes real examples from production systems and techniques that are in use in some of the world's largest Puppet installations, including a distributed Puppet architecture based on the Git version control system. You'll be introduced to powerful tools that work with Puppet such as Hiera. The book also explains managing Ruby applications and MySQL databases, building web servers, load balancers, high-availability systems with Heartbeat, and many other state-of-the-art techniquesWhat you will learn

Installing and setting up Puppet for the first time
Producing eye-catching reports and information for management
Understanding common error messages and troubleshooting common problems
Managing large networks
Taking control of configuration data with Hiera and encrypting secrets with GnuPG
Producing reliable, clean, maintainable code to community standards with puppet-lint and rspec-puppet
Using classes and inheritance to write powerful Puppet code
Deploying configuration files and templates for lightning-fast installations
Using virtual machines to build test and staging environments, and production systems on cloud platforms such as EC2
Automating every aspect of your systems including provisioning, deployment and change management
Making Puppet reliable, performant, and scalable

Who this book is for"Puppet 3 Cookbook" is for anyone who builds and administers servers, especially in a web operations context. It requires some experience of Linux systems administration, including familiarity with the command line, file system, and text editing. No programming experience is required.