Getting Started with Puppet 6
Dip your toes in the waters of configuration management. Learn how Puppet can help you deliver software and configurations predictably, reliably, and quickly. No Linux, command-line, or Puppet experience is required.
What you'll learn
Administrating hundreds, even thousands of servers has become the norm for the modern sysadmin. Configuration management is no longer optional. It's a necessity. In this course, Getting Started with Puppet 6, You'll quickly get up to speed on writing proper Puppet code to automate the day-to-day configuration of your IT infrastructure. First, you'll start by getting oriented with Puppet. Next, you'll discover decision-making with conditionals, using complex variables, and integrating modules from the Forge. Finally, you'll explore different variables and templates. By the end of this course, you'll be comfortable writing code in Puppet DSL.
Table of contents
- Module Overview 0m
- Centos and Workstation Pro 6m
- Remote Access with SSH 2m
- Editing Text Files with Nano 3m
- Editing Text Files with VI 2m
- Prepping the Base VM 4m
- Cloning a VM 1m
- Hostname and Static IP 2m
- Install the Puppet Server 4m
- Install the Puppet Agent 3m
- Sign the Agent Certificate 3m
- Run Remote Commands with Bolt 2m
- Module Summary 1m
- Module Overview 1m
- Installing Modules from the Forge 2m
- Incorporating the Postgres Module 5m
- Incorporating the Firewalld Module 2m
- Connecting the Database 3m
- Roles and Profiles 1m
- Placing Classes in Profiles 2m
- Placing Profiles in Roles 1m
- Classifying Nodes Through Roles 2m
- Welcome to Hiera 3m
- Looking up to Hiera 1m
- Building the Data Sources 4m
- Testing Hiera 2m
- Summary 1m
About the author
I got my start in IT administrating an Oracle 10g database on Red Hat Linux. I've come a long way since and have used Linux everyday since 2012 both personally and professionally. As an independent consultant, I'm currently responsible for no less than forty Oracle databases running on Windows and Red Hat Servers. Perhaps the only thing I love almost as much as Linux is the Cloud and the many opportunities it provides. Linux has opened a lot of doors for me, and teaching it is my favorite pas... more