Book Description

A revolution is coming to IT operations. Configuration management tools can build servers in seconds, and automate your entire network. Tools like Puppet are essential to take full advantage of the power of cloud computing, and build reliable, scalable, secure, high-performance systems.

The book takes you beyond the basics to explore the full power of Puppet, showing you in detail how to tackle a variety of real-world problems and applications. At every step it shows you exactly what commands you need to type, and includes full code samples for every recipe.

The book takes the reader from a basic knowledge of Puppet to a complete and expert understanding of Puppet’s latest and most advanced features, community best practices, writing great manifests, scaling and performance, and how to extend Puppet by adding your own providers and resources.

The book includes real examples from production systems and techniques that are in use in some of the world’s largest Puppet installations, including a distributed Puppet architecture and a high-performance Puppetmaster solution using Apache and Passenger.

Explore the power of Puppet with this practical guide to the world’s most popular configuration management system

What you will learn from this book:

• Make Puppet reliable, performant, and scalable Download Now »

Book Description

Automate your computing systems with Puppet, the popular configuration management framework. Through code samples and real-world examples, this concise introduction shows you how to use Puppet tools and templates to organize and execute configuration plans on your *nix servers. Learn how to manage pools of servers and virtual instances, and discover how Puppet helps you administer access control. If you’re familiar with system administration and Ruby language basics, this book is the ideal way to get up to speed on this open source framework.

• Install Puppet and learn its manifest syntax and built-in functions
• Store configurations in a central location with Puppet Master, and define which configurations apply to which nodes
• Build a framework to create user accounts in place of LDAP or Kerberos KDC
• Apply techniques to execute and manage server configurations with MCollective
• Use Puppet as an auditing tool to ensure that configurations are correct
• Gather information on the nodes you manage with the Facter library

About the Author
James Loope is the Operations Lead at Janrain. He is a specialist in scalable infrastructure, virtualization, cloud infrastructure and computer security. Download Now »

Book Description

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!

What you’ll learn

• See how to install Puppet on a variety of platforms
• Learn how to manage infrastructure with Puppet
• Discover how to scale Puppet to suit small, medium, and large organizations
• Learn how to integrate Puppet with other tools such as Cucumber and Nagios Download Now »

Book Description

Competent system administrators know their success hinges upon being able to perform often tedious tasks with rigor and punctuality. Such metrics are often achieved only by instituting a considerable degree of automation, something that has become even more crucial as IT environments continue to scale both in terms of size and complexity. One of the most powerful system administration tools to be released is Puppet, a solution capable of automating nearly every aspect of a system administrator’s job, from user management, to software installation, to even configuring server services such as FTP and LDAP.

Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy is the first book to introduce the powerful Puppet system administration tool. Author James Turnbull will guide you through Puppet’s key features, showing you how to install and configure the software, create automated Puppet tasks, known as recipes, and even create reporting solutions and extend Puppet further to your own needs. A bonus chapter is included covering the Facter library, which makes it a breeze to automate the retrieval of server configuration details such as IP and MAC addresses.
What you’ll learn

• Properly install and configure Puppet in order to begin immediately maximizing its capabilities.
• Create reporting solutions to more easily monitor automated outcomes.
• Extend Puppet to perform tasks that are capable of suiting your organization’s specific needs.
• Use Facter to query server operating systems for key data such as IP addresses, server names, and MAC addresses. Download Now »