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Pro Puppet

Pro Puppet is an in-depth guide to installing, using, and developing the popular configuration management tool Puppet. The book is a comprehensive follow-up to the previous title Pulling Strings with Puppet. Puppet provides a way to automate everything from user management to server configuration. You'll learn how to create Puppet recipes, extend Puppet, and use Facter to gather configuration data from your servers. Puppet is a must-have tool for system administrators, and Pro Puppet will teach you how to maximize its capabilities and customize it for your environment. Install and configure Puppet to immediately start automating tasks and create reporting solutions Learn insider tricks and techniques to better manage your infrastructure Become a Puppet expert!
eBook, English, [2011]
Apress, [New York], [2011]
1 online resource (xvii, 318 pages .)
9781430230571, 9781430230588, 1430230576, 1430230584
1005827512
About the authors
About the technical reviewer
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Getting started with Puppet
Building hosts with Puppet
Working with environments
Puppet scalability
Externalizing puppet configuration
Exporting and storing configuration
Puppet consoles: Puppet dashboard and the foreman
Tools and integration
Reporting with Puppet
Extending facter and Puppet
Marionette collective
Appendix A: working with Puppet
Index
Includes index