The Complete Hiera Course- A Puppet Masterclass

The Complete Hiera Course: A Puppet Masterclass, available at $64.99, has an average rating of 4.42, with 37 lectures, based on 308 reviews, and has 1531 subscribers.

You will learn about Use Hiera to reduce Puppet code complexity Concepts of data separation An understanding of hierarchical lookups Advanced Hiera tips and tricks Securing sensitive data with Hiera-Eyaml How to manage infrastructure data in Puppet Lookup merging and cascading This course is ideal for individuals who are Puppet users wishing to further understand Hiera and data separation or Systems engineers and admins who use Puppet to manage their deployments or People with some Puppet experience looking to ramp up their knowledge or Users familar with earlier versions of Hiera and Puppet that want to get up to speed with the latest features It is particularly useful for Puppet users wishing to further understand Hiera and data separation or Systems engineers and admins who use Puppet to manage their deployments or People with some Puppet experience looking to ramp up their knowledge or Users familar with earlier versions of Hiera and Puppet that want to get up to speed with the latest features.

Enroll now: The Complete Hiera Course: A Puppet Masterclass

Summary

Title: The Complete Hiera Course: A Puppet Masterclass

Price: $64.99

Average Rating: 4.42

Number of Lectures: 37

Number of Published Lectures: 37

Number of Curriculum Items: 37

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 37

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Use Hiera to reduce Puppet code complexity

Concepts of data separation

An understanding of hierarchical lookups

Advanced Hiera tips and tricks

Securing sensitive data with Hiera-Eyaml

How to manage infrastructure data in Puppet

Lookup merging and cascading

Who Should Attend

Puppet users wishing to further understand Hiera and data separation

Systems engineers and admins who use Puppet to manage their deployments

People with some Puppet experience looking to ramp up their knowledge

Users familar with earlier versions of Hiera and Puppet that want to get up to speed with the latest features

Target Audiences

Puppet users wishing to further understand Hiera and data separation

Systems engineers and admins who use Puppet to manage their deployments

People with some Puppet experience looking to ramp up their knowledge

Users familar with earlier versions of Hiera and Puppet that want to get up to speed with the latest features

Puppet is a powerful tool for managing infrastructure and has been helping people with config management for over a decade.  One of Puppet’s most valuable features that sets it apart from other tools is how it is able to manage configuration data using Hiera.

Hiera is much more than a key value store and the latest Hiera 5 release contains a whole host of features designed to make managing large amounts of data efficient and easy. 

This is a course  aimed at people who have already had exposure to Puppet and want to further expand their knowledge by mastering Hiera.  This course will leave you with all the tools you need to manage even the most complex of infrastructures, write re-usable and sharable Puppet modules and reduce spaghetti code by learning about data separation and hierarchical lookups.

The topics in this course cover all the latest cutting edge and newly released features that we see in Hiera 5 and Puppet 6, don’t get left behind!

This course includes topics such as;

Overview of the data management problem

Introduction to Hiera, the lookup sub-system of Puppet

Configuring Hiera

Building dynamic lookup hierarchies

Using facts and variables in Hiera data

In-data Hiera functions

How to use puppet lookup from the command line

The lookup puppet function

How to use automatic data binding to resolve class parameters

Data merging and cascading

Data-in-modules to replace the legacy ‘params.pp’ pattern

Securing sensitive data with Hiera-Eyaml

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Welcome

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: An Introduction to Hiera

Lecture 1: Understanding The Data Problem

Lecture 2: Introducing Hiera

Lecture 3: Data Separation

Lecture 4: Hierarchical Lookups

Chapter 3: Setup

Lecture 1: Environment Setup

Chapter 4: Configuring Hiera

Lecture 1: Configuration Overview

Lecture 2: Creating a minimal Hiera configuration

Chapter 5: Hiera Basics

Lecture 1: Overview of Hiera data

Lecture 2: Adding data to Hiera

Lecture 3: Using the puppet lookup command from the CLI

Lecture 4: Querying data using the lookup function in Puppet code

Lecture 5: Automatic data bindings

Chapter 6: Working with Hierarchies

Lecture 1: Overview of configuring dynamic hierarchies

Lecture 2: Constructing our first dynamic hierarchy

Lecture 3: Classroom Prep: Provisioning a second VM

Lecture 4: Overriding values in the hierarchy

Chapter 7: Dynamic Data

Lecture 1: Using facts to create dynamic data

Lecture 2: Overview of Hiera functions

Lecture 3: Using the alias function

Lecture 4: Using the lookup function

Lecture 5: A look at the literal function and conclusion

Chapter 8: Lookup Behaviours

Lecture 1: Overview of lookup behaviours

Lecture 2: Using the unique merge behaviour

Lecture 3: Merging hashes with the hash and deep behaviours

Lecture 4: Controlling lookup behaviour with lookup_options

Chapter 9: Using Hiera for class parameter defaults

Lecture 1: Understanding the params pattern

Lecture 2: Hiera configuration levels

Lecture 3: Digging deeper into data in modules

Chapter 10: Managing secrets with Hiera using Eyaml

Lecture 1: An introduction to Hiera Eyaml

Lecture 2: Installation and setup of Eyaml

Lecture 3: Creating Eyaml keys

Lecture 4: Configuring Eyaml

Lecture 5: Encrypting data

Lecture 6: Decrypting data

Lecture 7: Using eyaml edit to add data to Hiera

Lecture 8: Configuring Hiera to use Eyaml

Instructors

Craig Dunn
Freelance Automation Consultant & Trainer

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 1 votes

2 stars: 4 votes

3 stars: 23 votes

4 stars: 114 votes

5 stars: 166 votes

Frequently Asked Questions

How long do I have access to the course materials?

You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.

Can I take my courses with me wherever I go?

Definitely! If you have an internet connection, courses on Udemy are available on any device at any time. If you don’t have an internet connection, some instructors also let their students download course lectures. That’s up to the instructor though, so make sure you get on their good side!