Extending Puppet
Design, manage, and deploy your Puppet architecture with the help of real-world scenarios.
Published on 7. October 2025
328 pages
978-1-78398-145-8 (ISBN)
Description
Key Features
Book DescriptionThis book is a clear, detailed and practical guide to learn about designing and deploying you puppet architecture, with informative examples to highlight and explain concepts in a focused manner. This book is designed for users who already have good experience with Puppet, and will surprise experienced users with innovative topics that explore how to design, implement, adapt, and deploy a Puppet architecture. The key to extending Puppet is the development of types and providers, for which you must be familiar with Ruby.What you will learn
Use Puppet to manage network, cloud, and virtualization devices
Become a Hiera and PuppetDB power user
Study the different approaches to Puppet architecture design
Master the art of writing and maintaining reusable modules
Explore strategies and patterns on how to introduce Puppet automation
Manage and test a Puppet code workflow
Design scalable Puppet infrastructures
Who this book is for
Book DescriptionThis book is a clear, detailed and practical guide to learn about designing and deploying you puppet architecture, with informative examples to highlight and explain concepts in a focused manner. This book is designed for users who already have good experience with Puppet, and will surprise experienced users with innovative topics that explore how to design, implement, adapt, and deploy a Puppet architecture. The key to extending Puppet is the development of types and providers, for which you must be familiar with Ruby.What you will learn
Use Puppet to manage network, cloud, and virtualization devices
Become a Hiera and PuppetDB power user
Study the different approaches to Puppet architecture design
Master the art of writing and maintaining reusable modules
Explore strategies and patterns on how to introduce Puppet automation
Manage and test a Puppet code workflow
Design scalable Puppet infrastructures
Who this book is for
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
File size
1,60 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78398-145-8 (9781783981458)
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Franceschi Alessandro :
Alessandro Franceschi is a long time Puppet user, trainer, and consultant.
Alessandro Franceschi is a long time Puppet user, trainer, and consultant.
Content
Table of Contents
Puppet Essentials
Storing data in Hiera
PuppetDB
Designing a Puppet Architecture
Using and writing (reusable) modules
Raising the abstraction level: Stacks
How to migrate an infrastructure to Puppet
Code workflow management
Scaling Puppet infrastructures
Puppet Extension points
Beyond the System
Future Puppet
Puppet Essentials
Storing data in Hiera
PuppetDB
Designing a Puppet Architecture
Using and writing (reusable) modules
Raising the abstraction level: Stacks
How to migrate an infrastructure to Puppet
Code workflow management
Scaling Puppet infrastructures
Puppet Extension points
Beyond the System
Future Puppet
