Course Overview
Our 4- day, instructor-led Introduction to Puppet course is intended for developers, system administrators, or anyone who wants to learn about Puppet to manage their infrastructure lifecycle. It will teach you to:
- Understand the latest Puppet 5 features
- Install and set up Puppet and discover the latest and most advanced features
- Configure, build, and run containers in production using Puppet’s industry-leading Docker support
- Deploy configuration files and templates at super-fast speeds and manage user accounts and access control
- Automate your IT infrastructure
- Use the latest features in Puppet 5 onward and its official modules
- Manage clouds, containers, and orchestration
- Get to know the best practices to make Puppet more reliable and increase its performance
Schedule
Currently, there are no public classes scheduled. Please contact a Phoenix TS Training Consultant to discuss hosting a private class at 240-667-7757.
Course Outline
Module 1: Getting Started with Puppet
- Why do we need Puppet anyway?
- Configuration management tools
- What is puppet
- Getting Ready for Puppet
Module 2: Creating your first manifests
- Hello, Puppet – Your First Puppet Manifest
- Managing packages
- Services
Module 3: Managing your Puppet code with Git
- What is version control?
- Creating a Git repo
- Distributing Puppet manifests
- Fetching and applying changes automatically
Module 4: Understanding Puppet resources
- Files
- Packages
- Services
- Users
- Cron resources
- Exec resources
Module 5: Variables, Expressions, and Facts
- Introducing variables
- Introducing expressions
- Finding out facts
- Iterating over arrays
Module 6: Managing data with Hiera
- Why Hiera?
- Setting up Hiera
- Adding Hiera data to your Puppet repo
- Querying Hiera
- Types of Hiera data
- Interpolation in Hiera data
- The hierarchy
- Creating resources with Hiera data
- Managing secret data
Module 7: Mastering Modules
- Using Puppet Forge modules
- Using modules in your manifests
- Exploring the standard library
- Writing your own modules
Module 8: Classes, roles, and profiles
- Classes
- Parameter data types
- Defined resource types
- Managing classes with Hiera
- Roles and profiles
Module 9: Managing files with templates
- What are templates?
- Using templates in your manifests
- Iteration in templates
Module 10: Controlling containers
- Understanding containers
- Deployment with Docker
- Managing Docker with Puppet
- Managing Docker images
- Building dynamic containers
- Persistent storage for containers
- Networking and orchestration
- Running Puppet inside containers
Module 11: Orchestrating cloud resources
- Introducing the cloud
- Setting up an Amazon AWS account
- Getting ready to use puppetlabs/aws
- Creating EC2 instances with Puppet
- Managing custom VPCs and subnets
- Provisioning AWS resources from Hiera data
Module 12: Putting it all together
- Getting the demo repo
- Understanding the demo repo
- The bootstrap process
- Adapting the repo for your own use
- Bootstrapping a new node
