Introduction to using Puppet

Course Code: 1916

$1950

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Overview

This comprehensive, hands-on course covers the complete Puppet configuration management system and how it can be used to build and scale reliable infrastructure for different requirements. During the course, participants build a fully functional infrastructure using Puppet. The course equips participants with a thorough understanding, knowledge and skills for integrating Puppet into operations workflows.

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 2 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 2 days

What You'll learn

Overview of DevOps
Introduction to classes and architecture
Understanding conditional statements
Using variables and Hiera

Outline

Module 1: Introduction to DevOps

Why DevOps
Benefits
Automation
Overview of Puppet
Puppet enterprise vs. Open source
Lab: Using the Puppet console, adding nodes and classes

Module 2: Classes

Understanding Puppet classes
Manifests with classes
Class inheritance

Module 3: Architecture

Understand how Puppet reports facts and the catalog
Installing modules from the Forge
Searching the Forge from CLI and web
Using the Puppet module command
Types and providers
Lab: Modules, module path structure and testing
Lab: NTP configuring nodes and class parameters
Lab: MySQL – Using Puppet to configure MySQL databases, users and services

Module 4: Variables

Using variables in Puppet
Writing Puppet code without repeating
Writing classes with parameters
Using the facter tool with modules and classes
Lab: Variables and parameters – Learn how to assign variables in a manifest, create classes with parameters

Module 5: Hiera

Descriptions and uses for Hiera
Code reusability
Access control with Git, LDAP and Jenkins
Lab: Installing and using Hiera

Module 6: Conditional statements

Understand and use conditional statements –
- If
- Unless
- Case
- Selector
Lab: Conditional statements – Using conditional statements in resources and modules

Module 7: Advanced topics

Environments
Using R10K to manage modules
Creating custom modules
Next steps
Lab: Resource ordering – Ensure the correct order of modules and classes

Lab: Defined resource types – Create new resource types

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course. Participants would find it beneficial to complete the Fundamentals of DevOps course prior to taking up this course.

Who Should Attend

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