Puppet Fundamentals for System Administrators

By Ben Piper
Learn step-by-step how to deploy and use Puppet to automate configuration management and software deployment for Windows and Linux. No programming experience required! We cover manifests, modules, templates, Hiera, roles, profiles, and version control using Git.
Course info
Rating
(446)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Feb 12, 2015
Duration
5h 30m
Table of contents
Introduction to Puppet
Why Puppet? 9m Course Introduction 3m Puppet Concepts 9m Lab Scenario 3m Summary 1m
Installing and Configuring the Puppet Master
Module Introduction 1m Lab Setup 1m Downloading VirtualBox and Vagrant 2m Downloading the CentOS and Ubuntu Boxes 4m Booting the Puppet Master Server 8m Installing the Puppet Master 2m Setting up Directory Environments 13m Puppet Master Security: Dealing with SELinux 5m Puppet Master Security: Generating Certificates 4m Puppet Master Security: Configuring the IPTables Firewalls 3m Installing Apache and Passenger 16m Summary 1m
Installing and Configuring the Puppet Agent
Module Introduction 1m Lab Setup 2m Adding the Ubuntu Box to Vagrant 3m Booting the wiki and wikitest Servers 2m Adding the Puppet Master to the Hosts File 4m Installing the Puppet Agent on CentOS 5m Installing the Puppet Agent on Ubuntu 5m Signing Agent Certificates 5m Summary 1m
Creating Manifests
Module Introduction 1m Adding Syntax Highlighting to Nano 2m Node Definitions 2m Managing Files 6m The Client Filebucket 3m Managing Packages 4m Managing Services 8m Selectors 7m Classes 7m Variables 4m Summary 2m
Creating and Using Modules
Module Introduction 3m The Puppet Forge 1m Creating Modules 5m Module Structure 3m Customizing Modules 5m Conditionals 3m Downloading from the Puppet Forge 0m The Apache Module 12m The vcsrepo Module 8m Resource Ordering 3m The MySQL Module 4m The Firewall Module 9m Summary 2m
Creating File Templates
Module Introduction 2m Creating File Templates 7m Using Templates in Modules 10m Summary 2m
Configuring Hiera
Module Introduction 1m Using Hiera Data in Modules 8m Creating YAML Data Sources 5m Assigning Classes with Hiera 3m Enabling Hiera 4m Summary 2m
Windows Configuration Management
Module Introduction 1m Lab Setup 8m Installing and Configuring the Puppet Agent 3m Generating Agent Certificates 4m Roles and Profiles 8m Managing Files and Packages 20m Managing Services 1m Summary 2m
Version Control
Module Introduction 1m Automating the Puppet Agent 3m Creating a Git Repository 3m Recovering from Committed Mistakes 6m Recovering from Uncommitted Mistakes 4m Summary 2m Course Summary 3m
Description
Course info
Rating
(446)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Feb 12, 2015
Duration
5h 30m
Description

Learn step-by-step how to deploy and use Puppet to automate configuration management and software deployment for Windows and Linux. No programming experience required! Follow along as we build a realistic Puppet lab from the ground up utilizing cross-platform Vagrant and VirtualBox. Topics covered include manifests, modules, templates, Hiera, the roles and profiles pattern, and version control using Git.

About the author
Ben Piper
About the author

Ben Piper is the author of the "CCNP Enterprise Certification Study Guide: Implementing and Operating Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies" and the "AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide". You can contact Ben by visiting his website, benpiper.com.

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