{"product_id":"9781785882586","title":"Puppet 4 Essentials - Second Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcquire skills to manage your IT infrastructure effectively with Puppet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout This Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBreeze through Puppet 4's key features and performance improvements to bring real advantage to your IT infrastructure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiscover Puppet best practices to help you avoid common mistakes and pitfalls\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlitz through easy-to-follow examples to get to grips with Puppet and succeed with everyday IT automation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cb\u003eWho This Book Is For\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you're an experienced IT professional and a new Puppet user, this book will provide you with all you need to know to go from installation to advanced automation in no time at all. Get a rapid introduction to the essential topics and then tackle Puppet for advanced automation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat You Will Learn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrite and employ individual Puppet manifests\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnderstand how Puppet implements system abstraction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeploy the Puppet master and agents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLeverage and extend Facter to summarize your systems\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreate modular and reusable Puppet code\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExtend your code base with publicly available Puppet modules\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUse the modern features of Puppet 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeparate logic from data using Hiera\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Detail\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003ePuppet is a configuration management tool that allows you to automate all your IT configurations, giving you control over what you do to each Puppet Agent in a network, and when and how you do it. In this age of digital delivery and ubiquitous Internet presence, it's becoming increasingly important to implement scalable and portable solutions, not only in terms of software, but also the systems that run it. The free Ruby-based tool Puppet has established itself as the most successful solution to manage any IT infrastructure. Ranging from local development environments through complex data center setups to scalable cloud implementations, Puppet allows you to handle them all with a unified approach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePuppet 4 Essentials, Second Edition gets you started rapidly and intuitively as you'll put Puppet's tools to work right away. It will also highlight the changes associated with performance improvements as well as the new language features in Puppet 4.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe'll start with a quick introduction to Puppet to get you managing your IT systems quickly. You will then learn about the Puppet Agent that comes with an all-in-one (AIO) package and can run on multiple systems. Next, we'll show you the Puppet Server for high-performance communication and passenger packages. As you progress through the book, the innovative structure and approach of Puppet will be explained with powerful use cases. The difficulties that are inherent to a complex and powerful tool will no longer be a problem for you as you discover Puppet's fascinating intricacies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the end of the book, you will not only know how to use Puppet, but also its companion tools Facter and Hiera, and will be able to leverage the flexibility and expressive power implemented by their tool chain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStyle and approach\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis quick learning guide for Puppet follows a practical approach, starting with some basic commands that you can use from the shell right away. It comprises a series of examples that will get you familiar with the most important aspects of Puppet in a flash.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Packt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140073799920,"sku":"9781785882586","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781785882586_p0.jpg?v=1763729285","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781785882586","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}