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Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers
Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers

Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers: Automate your infrastructure at an enterprise scale

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  • Understand the core concepts and best approaches to the latest version of the Puppet language
  • Learn the key components of the Puppet platform and see how they deploy and apply Puppet code to infrastructure
  • Discover approaches to collaborative working by using the right structure of code and deployment

Description

As DevOps and platform engineering drive the demand for robust internal development platforms, the need for infrastructure configuration tools has never been greater. Puppet, a powerful configuration management tool, is widely used by leading enterprises and boasts a thriving open source community. This book provides a comprehensive explanation of both the Puppet language and the platform. It begins by helping you grasp the basic concepts and approach of Puppet as a stateful language, and then builds up to explaining how to structure Puppet code to scale and allow flexibility and collaboration among teams. As you advance, you’ll find out how the Puppet platform allows the management and reporting of infrastructure configuration. The book also shows you how the platform can be integrated with other tooling, such as ServiceNow and Splunk. The concluding chapters help you implement Puppet to fit in heavily regulated and audited environments as well as modern hybrid cloud environments. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of the capabilities of both the Puppet language and platform, and you will have learned how to structure and scale Puppet to create a platform to provide enterprise-grade infrastructure configuration.

Who is this book for?

This book is for DevOps engineers looking to automate infrastructure with Puppet as a configuration management tool. It will allow both beginners and current Puppet users to understand the full power of the Puppet language and platform. A basic understanding of Unix system administration and Windows systems and core development concepts such as revision control tools like git, virtualization, testing, and coding tooling like vi or Visual Studio code is a prerequisite.

What you will learn

  • Find out how to structure Puppet code and data to scale and be secure
  • Discover the core components of the Puppet platform and how to achieve performance
  • Get to grips with classifying infrastructure and deploying code for different environments
  • Understand how Bolt can provide procedural orchestration alongside Puppet code
  • Use Puppet's integrations and Forge modules that allow Puppet to integrate with other systems
  • Adopt approaches to adoption to ensure your Puppet implementation will succeed in regulated environments, the cloud, and with change control

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Nick Moore Jul 05, 2023
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Puppet is by far and away the most powerful automation tool on the market. With great power comes great responsibility! This book is a must for any DevOps engineers who want to spend their time working on the fun parts of their jobs, whilst automating away the pain via Puppet technology. Fantastically written, by someone who grew up in the financial industry using Puppet. Some very good tips and lessons learned that even seasoned Puppet veterans could learn from. Five stars.
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ps258 Jun 29, 2023
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Absolutely the best Puppet book I've ever owned or read.
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Aaron Russo Jul 05, 2023
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The book covers a wide range of topics from puppet architecture to testing and most things in between, and found it to be a good book on current Puppet to introduce its concepts and ideas to my team of mostly new Puppet users, as well as being a reference for more experienced users.NOTE: My initial review was a bit critical of the Puppet 8 references being a bit inconsistent, but sounds like that was a publishing issue and new copies purchased have fixed that.
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Tiny Aug 19, 2023
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A good intoduction to Puppet although I wish the Puppet 8 approaches were a little better integrated into the text of the book. I found the section on Bolt, as an agentless orchestrator to work in connection with Puppet to particularly helpful. Also nice was having a lab section rather than merely questions at the end of the chapter to help bring up one's own browser and move forward.
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Robert Waffen Jul 11, 2023
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Dieses Buch hilft einem gut dabei in Puppet einzusteigen. Es vermittelt einen die Grundkonzepte und erklärt diese immer anschaulich an Code-Beispielen. Für Menschen die von früheren Puppet Versionen umsteigen zeigt es gut die Änderungen dieser bis hin zu Puppet 8 auf. Der Schreibstil ist auch sehr angenehm zu lesen und die Sätze sind nicht überkompliziert gestaltet, wie es z.B. in so manch anderem Fachbuch oft vorkommt.Mir hat es sehr gefallen und ich kann es empfehlen.Als Kritik muss ich aber leider noch äussern, das die abgedruckten Code-Beispiele oft gegen den Puppet-eigenen Code-Guideline verstoßen und etwas zusammengewürfelt wirken. Diese hätten echt ein wenig mehr Liebe gebraucht. Auch sind hier und da einige kleine Syntax-Fehler zu finden. Was aber nicht deren Zweck, etwas zu veranschaulichen mindert.--- EnglishThis book is very helpful for getting started with Puppet. It conveys the basic concepts and explains them using code examples that are always presented in a clear manner. For people transitioning from earlier versions of Puppet, it effectively highlights the changes up to Puppet 8. The writing style is also very pleasant to read, and the sentences are not overly complicated, which is often the case in other technical books.I really enjoyed it and can recommend it.However, as a criticism, I have to mention that the printed code examples often violate Puppet's own code guidelines and seem somewhat haphazardly put together. They could have used a bit more attention to detail. Additionally, there are some minor syntax errors here and there. However, this doesn't diminish their purpose of illustrating concepts.
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