Extending Puppet

Franceschi, Alessandro

ISBN 10: 178398144X / ISBN 13: 9781783981441

Edité par Packt Publishing 2014-06, 2014

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N° de réf. du vendeur 6666-IUK-9781783981441

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Extending Puppet
• Éditeur: Packt Publishing 2014-06
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 178398144X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781783981441
• Reliure: PF
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

This book is a clear, detailed and practical guide to learn about designing and deploying you puppet architecture, with informative examples to highlight and explain concepts in a focused manner. This book is designed for users who already have good experience with Puppet, and will surprise experienced users with innovative topics that explore how to design, implement, adapt, and deploy a Puppet architecture. The key to extending Puppet is the development of types and providers, for which you must be familiar with Ruby.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Design, manage, and deploy your Puppet architecture with the help of real-world scenarios

About This Book

• Plan, test, and execute your Puppet deployments
• Write reusable and maintainable Puppet code
• Handle challenges that might arise in upcoming versions of Puppet
• Explore the Puppet ecosystem in-depth, through a hands-on, example driven approach

Who This Book Is For

This book is designed for users who already have good experience with Puppet, and will surprise experienced users with innovative topics that explore how to design, implement, adapt, and deploy a Puppet architecture. The key to extending Puppet is the development of types and providers, for which you must be familiar with Ruby.

What You Will Learn

• Use Puppet to manage network, cloud, and virtualization devices
• Become a Hiera and PuppetDB power user
• Study the different approaches to Puppet architecture design
• Master the art of writing and maintaining reusable modules
• Explore strategies and patterns on how to introduce Puppet automation
• Manage and test a Puppet code workflow
• Design scalable Puppet infrastructures

In Detail

Puppet has changed the way we manage our systems, but Puppet itself is changing and evolving, as are the ways in which we use it.

A clear, updated, practical, and focused view of the current state of the technology and the evolution of Puppet is what we need to tackle our IT infrastructure challenges and avoid common errors when designing our architectures.

This is a detailed, practical book that covers the different components of the Puppet ecosystem and explores how to use them to deploy and manage different kinds of IT infrastructures.

Updated with the most recent trends and best practices, this book gives you a clear view on how to "connect the dots" and expands your understanding to successfully use and extend Puppet.