Mastering Automation with Puppet

Puppet Course Content

1. Introduction to Puppet :

• why puppet ..?

• How to access working directory

• Puppet Agents

• Puppet Masters

• MCollective And Systems Orchestration

•  Cross Platform Puppet

3. Puppet Run and its working Cycle

• Introduction To Puppet Run Cycle

• Gathering System Facts

• Node Matching And Catalogue Compilation

4. Puppet language

• Puppet Resources – How To Define System Resources

• Applying A Simple Puppet Manifest

•  Puppet Types

• The Package File Service Pattern

• Applying Conditional Logic In Puppet

• Fact Conditionals – Choosing A Course Of Action

5. Organizing puppet Environment

• Defining Nodes

• Puppet Modules – Reusable Code

• Forge Modules – Where To Find Reusable Code

• Provisioning A Web Server

• Class Parameters – Applying Variables

• Hiera Parameters – Defining Variables

• Executing Modules Against A Puppet Master With An Agent

•  Reporting With Puppet

6. MCollective

• MCollective With Puppet

• Using MCollective To Interact With Services

•  Using MCollective To Interact With Puppet

7. Additional Tools

• Managing Modules With Librarian-Puppet

•  Managing Directory Environments And Modules With R10K

• External Node Classifiers And Reporting With Puppet Dashboard – Part 1

•  External Node Classifiers And Reporting With Puppet Dashboard – Part 2