Learning Puppet

Course details

Puppet can be a powerful and accessible tool in your server automation toolkit. In this course, experienced systems administrator and DevOps engineer Josh Samuelson offers hands-on experience to give you a confident start toward achieving your server automation goals. Learn about using Puppet as a server automation tool. Go over some first steps to take, like installation and using the Puppet command line. Explore ways you can use Puppet code and modules. Dive into serverless Puppet, and learn how to create a custom resource type and set up a Puppet server. Each topic comes with hands-on challenges and possible solutions, to help you practice and retain what you learn.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Learn Puppet to control your infrastructure
02 - What you should know

1. First Steps with Puppet

03 - What is Puppet
04 - Install Puppet tools
05 - Puppet command line
06 - Resources
07 - Making changes with Puppet
08 - Challenge - Create a user
09 - Solution - Create a user

2. Puppet Code

10 - Working with Puppet code
11 - Variables and conditionals
12 - Organize your code with classes
13 - Facts and functions
14 - Defined resource types
15 - Templates
16 - Challenge - Create a base node class
17 - Solution - Create a base node class

3. Modules

18 - Introduction to the Puppet Forge and modules
19 - Using modules
20 - Using parameters
21 - Roles and profiles
22 - Creating a module
23 - Challenge - Create a base module
24 - Solution - Create a base module

4. Serverless Puppet

25 - Puppet Bolt
26 - Setting up a Bolt module
27 - Hiera basics
28 - YAML
29 - Manage multiple nodes
30 - Challenge - Add a MySQL node
31 - Solution - Add a MySQL node

5. Puppet Server

32 - Puppet Server
33 - Set up Puppet Server
34 - Certificates
35 - Monitoring and reporting
36 - PuppetDB and exported resources

Conclusion

37 - Next steps

Learning Puppet

Authors

Josh Samuelson