Course Outline
Pre-Requisites
You will need a computer to set up and use Puppet in class.
Lessons
- Why DevOps
- Benefits
- Automation
- Overview of Puppet
- Puppet Enterprise vs Open Source
- How Puppet uses resources for configuration management
- Developing Puppet resources
- Variables
- Conditional statements
- Built-in resource types
- Description of resources – resource types, titles, and body
- Core resource types
- Inspecting resources
- Understanding Puppet classes
- Manifests with Classes
- Class Inheritance
- Sizing Puppet Master
- Differences between Monolithic and Split Puppet architectures
- Puppet Agent
- Understand how Puppet reports Facts and the Catalog
- Installing modules from the Forge
- Searching the Forge from CLI and web
- Using the Puppet Module command
- Types and Providers
- Using variables in Puppet
- Writing Puppet code without repeating
- Writing Classes with parameters
- Using the facter tool with modules and classes
- Description and uses for Hiera
- Code reusability
- Access control with Git, LDAP, Jenkins
Understand and use these conditional statements:
- If
- Unless
- Case
- Selector
- Environments
- Using R10K to manage modules
- Creating custom modules
- Next steps
- IT Managers and Leaders
- Developers and Application Teams
- System Administrators
- IT Operations Staff
- Release Engineers
- Configuration Managers
- Anyone involved with IT infrastructure
- ScrumMasters
- Software Managers and Team Leads
The workshop includes O'Reilly's comprehensive text on Puppet tooling: Learning Puppet by Jussi Heinonen. This text from Heinonen, plus your classroom guide, will serve as invaluable references back at work.Â
Cancellation Policy
If a change needs to be made to your public course registration (cancel, transfer, or substitution) ASPE must receive written notice via email at customerservice@aspeinc.com or fax at 919-816-1710. If a cancel or transfer request is made less than 15 business days prior to the class start date, payment will still be due, no refunds will be issued and you will be charged a $200 change fee. Your paid tuition will be available for one year to be used as a credit towards another course of equal value; only one reenrollment opportunity is allowed. Failure to attend the course without written notification will result in forfeiture of the full course price. Student substitutions may be made at any time prior to the start of class free of charge. If ASPE is forced to cancel a course for any reason, liability is limited to the registration fee only.
Training Location
Virtual
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