Learning Path- Puppet- The One-Stop Guide to Puppet

Learning Path: Puppet: The One-Stop Guide to Puppet, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 3.05, with 57 lectures, 3 quizzes, based on 13 reviews, and has 123 subscribers.

You will learn about Get a complete understanding of the Puppet ecosystem and terminologies Write efficient, reusable, and modularized Puppet code Automate and integrate all the various tests in Jenkins Create a pipeline for effective code management Go through the different methods of reporting with Puppet Build a Nagios-based monitoring using Puppet Deployments and excel methods to harden infrastructure using secure community modules Debug errors in the Puppet environment This course is ideal for individuals who are This Learning Path is targeted at developers and system administrators who want to automate their IT infrastructure using Puppet. It is particularly useful for This Learning Path is targeted at developers and system administrators who want to automate their IT infrastructure using Puppet.

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Summary

Title: Learning Path: Puppet: The One-Stop Guide to Puppet

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 3.05

Number of Lectures: 57

Number of Quizzes: 3

Number of Published Lectures: 57

Number of Published Quizzes: 3

Number of Curriculum Items: 60

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 60

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Get a complete understanding of the Puppet ecosystem and terminologies

Write efficient, reusable, and modularized Puppet code

Automate and integrate all the various tests in Jenkins

Create a pipeline for effective code management

Go through the different methods of reporting with Puppet

Build a Nagios-based monitoring using Puppet

Deployments and excel methods to harden infrastructure using secure community modules

Debug errors in the Puppet environment

Who Should Attend

This Learning Path is targeted at developers and system administrators who want to automate their IT infrastructure using Puppet.

Target Audiences

This Learning Path is targeted at developers and system administrators who want to automate their IT infrastructure using Puppet.

With the ever increasing challenges of IT infrastructures, the need to automate common activities has become the major requirements in many large organizations. Puppet is one of the most efficient configuration management tool that allows to manage and automate all your IT infrastructure. So, if you looking forward to master the automation techniques of Puppet, then go for this Learning Path.

Packt’s Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.

The highlights of this Learning Path are:

Integrate and automate all the various tests in Jenkins

Secure Puppet deployments and master methods to harden infrastructure

Let’s take a quick look at your learning journey. You will start off with a complete understanding of the Puppet environment followed by detailed steps to configure your own Puppet infrastructure. You will write tests for modules right from the beginning, build an efficient and scalable codebase, and create continuous integration pipelines with CI tools such as Jenkins. You will also learn about procedures to secure the Puppet deployments and methods to harden infrastructure using community modules.? You’ll then get to run the Puppet components in Docker containers, using Puppet to create Docker images, and running applications on Docker along with orchestration using Mcollective. Finally, you will learn how to write custom plugins for Puppet such as facts, resource types, providers, and functions.

By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll have a solid working knowledge of Puppet and be a confident Puppet user.

Meet Your Expert:

We have the best works of the following esteemed author to ensure that your learning journey is smooth:

AnirbanSaha is an infrastructure professional with more than six and half years of experience in infrastructure management at various industries and organizations ranging from early startups to corporate environments. He was worked extensively with configuration management and automation tools including Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack, Terraform to name a few. He has extensive experience in architecting, deployment and management of large infrastructures. He speaks at various conferences on latest technologies and is also the author of Salt Cookbook published by Packt.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Puppet Essentials for Beginners

Lecture 1: The Course Overview

Lecture 2: Installing and Setting Up the Working Environment

Lecture 3: Configuration Management and How Puppet Fits into the Scenario

Lecture 4: Puppet Components and Terminologies

Lecture 5: Understanding the Puppet Run Cycle

Lecture 6: Installing the Puppet Components

Lecture 7: Puppet in Action

Lecture 8: Overview of the Puppet Language

Lecture 9: Puppet Server in Production and Managing Certificates

Lecture 10: Introduction to Community Modules and Puppet Forge

Lecture 11: Managing Module Dependencies and librarian-puppet

Lecture 12: Managing Environments with r10k

Lecture 13: Understanding roles and Profiles

Lecture 14: Writing and Managing a Module

Lecture 15: Understanding and Using Hiera

Lecture 16: Overview of Module Testing

Lecture 17: Testing Puppet Syntax with puppet-lint

Lecture 18: Writing Unit Tests with rspec-puppet

Lecture 19: Writing Tests with Beaker Using Serverspec

Lecture 20: Writing Tests with test-kitchen Using Serverspec

Lecture 21: Publishing Modules to Puppet Forge with puppet-blacksmith

Lecture 22: Configuring and Using Jenkins to Run the Test Suites

Lecture 23: Using Jenkins to Create a Code Management Workflow

Chapter 2: Puppet Techniques for Enterprise Deployments

Lecture 1: The Course Overview

Lecture 2: Understanding and Configuring Reporting in Puppet Server and Agent

Lecture 3: Puppetboard as a Puppet dashboard

Lecture 4: Puppetexplorer as a Puppet Dashboard

Lecture 5: Configuring Foreman as a Puppet Dashboard

Lecture 6: Using Foreman as an External Node Classifier

Lecture 7: Understanding and Creating Custom Report Processors

Lecture 8: Creating and Displaying Puppet Reports from PuppetDB

Lecture 9: Puppet Reporting Using Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana

Lecture 10: Implementing Nagios Monitoring Using Puppet

Lecture 11: Monitoring Puppet Agent Run Using Nagios

Lecture 12: Using Policy Based Certificate Signing for Puppet Nodes

Lecture 13: Restricting Access to Puppet Mount Points

Lecture 14: Tracking Changes Using Puppet Metaparameters

Lecture 15: Exploring Community Modules for System Hardening

Lecture 16: Troubleshooting Puppet Server and Client Errors

Chapter 3: Advanced Puppet Techniques

Lecture 1: The Course Overview

Lecture 2: Load Balancing in Puppet Servers to Handle Scaling

Lecture 3: Creating a Centralized CA Server for Authentication

Lecture 4: Understanding Exported Resources and Configuring PuppetDB

Lecture 5: Exporting and Collecting in Modules using PuppetDB

Lecture 6: Using the PuppetDB API and Dashboard

Lecture 7: External Node Classification Using Scripts

Lecture 8: Node Classification Using Hiera

Lecture 9: Running Puppet server side components in Docker Containers

Lecture 10: Automating Docker Containers Using Puppet Agent

Lecture 11: Creating Docker Images

Lecture 12: Running Applications in Docker Using Puppet

Lecture 13: Configuring MCollective for Orchestration in Puppet

Lecture 14: Writing Custom Facts

Lecture 15: Writing Custom Resource Types

Lecture 16: Writing Custom Puppet Types

Lecture 17: Writing Custom Providers

Lecture 18: Writing Custom Functions

Instructors

Packt Publishing
Tech Knowledge in Motion

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5 stars: 3 votes

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