Learning Puppet 4: A Guide to Configuration Management and Automation

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