Introduction to Puppet

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