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Mastering Puppet 6 for Large Infrastructures, Second Edition [Video], published by Packt

This is the code repository for Mastering Puppet 6 for Large Infrastructures, Second Edition [Video], published by Packt. It contains all the supporting project files necessary to work through the video course from start to finish.

About the Video Course

Puppet is a configuration management system that helps you automate all your IT configurations, giving you control of what you do to each node, when you do it, and how you do it.

This course will take your knowledge of Puppet to an advanced level, and covers the latest and most advanced Puppet features. You will explore advanced techniques to deal with centralized and decentralized Puppet deployments and take control of your servers and desktops. Via interesting examples, learn how to automate Puppet deployment for configuration management and to automate every aspect of your systems including provisioning, deployment, and change management. You will integrate Puppet with Jenkins and Git to build an effective workflow for multiple teams and use the new Puppet Tasks feature and the latest Puppet Orchestrator language extensions.

By the end of this course, you will be confident and skilled enough to scale and troubleshoot Puppet and overcome issues faced in larger deployments with real-world examples.

What You Will Learn

• Manage complex code with the new Code Manager to manage your code, schedule jobs, and configure persistence
• Manage multiple jobs through Puppet Orchestration
• Create new configuration and functionality with Puppet tasks
• Manage multiple Puppet environments with files and repositories
• Manage and version code through Git repositories
• Use PuppetDB to store data asynchronously
• Automate Puppet-testing with Jenkins
• Use advanced virtualization techniques

Technical Requirements

For successful completion of this course, students will require the computer systems with at least the following:
• Prior knowledge of Puppet
• PowerShell skills
• Fundamentals of cloud computing

Recommended Hardware Requirements:

For an optimal experience with hands-on labs and other practical activities, we recommend the following configuration:
• Windows 10
• Memory: 2GB of memory
• Storage: 20GB of free storage

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