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Puppet Course

This document provides an overview of several introductory and advanced topics in Puppet including: Puppet architecture and how it works; the Puppet Ruby DSL; building complex configurations using inheritance, Hiera, and templates; Puppet design patterns involving roles, profiles, and defined resource types; automation and reporting with custom facts and Mcollective; scaling infrastructure using r10k and designing scalable architectures; and practical exercises installing Puppet and configuring r10k. The document outlines goals, objectives, and topics to be covered in each section on Puppet.

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Puppet Course

This document provides an overview of several introductory and advanced topics in Puppet including: Puppet architecture and how it works; the Puppet Ruby DSL; building complex configurations using inheritance, Hiera, and templates; Puppet design patterns involving roles, profiles, and defined resource types; automation and reporting with custom facts and Mcollective; scaling infrastructure using r10k and designing scalable architectures; and practical exercises installing Puppet and configuring r10k. The document outlines goals, objectives, and topics to be covered in each section on Puppet.

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Introduction to Puppet

Goal : Give a brief overview of Puppet, the architecture and Infrastructure of


Puppet and how it works.

Objectives : Upon completing this module, you should be able to: What is Puppet,
Infrastructure as Code, Puppet Architecture, How Puppet Works, Puppet terminology,
Installing Puppet.

Topics : Why Puppet, What is Puppet, Puppet Environment, Puppet Architecture, How
Puppet Works, Puppet Configuration, Puppet Terminology, Installing Puppet Server
and Client.

Practicals Covered : Installing Puppet Server and Client.


Puppet Ruby Domain-Specific Language (DSL)

Goal : Introduction to the Puppet Ruby DSL and other Puppet Terms and
Terminologies.

Objectives : Introduction to the Ruby DSL and Language Constructs, Resources,


Variables and Facts, Resource Relationships, Classes and Modules, Classification,
Other Puppet Terms and Terminologies.

Topics : Puppet Ruby DSL, Puppet Language Constructs, Defines and Variables,
Resource Types, Variable Rules and Names, Modules and Module Tools, Chaining
Arrows, Catalog, Environments.
Building Complex Configurations

Goal : Demonstrate the Inheritance, Data types, Data Separation and Hiera.

Objectives : At the end of this module, you should be able to: Parametrized
Classes, Inheritance, Data Separation using Hiera, Data Separation using Templates,
Classification using Parameterized classes and ADB.

Topics : Classes, Puppet Data types, Introduction to Hiera, Data Separation.


Design Patterns

Goal : Explain the Puppet Design, Roles and Modelling and the Puppet Abstraction
and create resource programmatically.

Objectives : At the end of this module, you should be able to: Roles and Profiles
Design Pattern, Modelling Repeatable portions using Defined Resource Types, Create
Resources Programmatically, Anchor Patterns and its use vs Contain(), Modularity
and Compatibility.

Topics : Puppet Design, Roles and Profiles, Role Modelling, Puppet Abstraction,
Resource Containment and Anchor Pattern
Automation and Reporting

Goal : Describe the Custom Facts, Mcollective, and the Puppet Development Workflow.

Objectives : At the end of this module, you should be able to: Use Custom Facts to
expose Node Information, Development Workflow, Complex Hiera data source
Hierarchies, Using MCollective to automate Infrastructure Orchestration, Integrate
Puppet with External tools via Hiera, report processors.

Topics : Custom Facts, Fact precedence, Puppet Development Workflow, Invocation on


Client, Mcollective, Mcollective Client and Server Configuration, Data Caching,
Processing Hooks, Agent Configuration and Activation.
Scaling Infrastructure

Goal : Describe the r10k and introduction to Designing Scalable Architecture and
Scaling ActiveMQ Messaging Bus.

Objectives : At the end of this module, you should be able to: Estimating the
number of nodes to be enabled, Introduction to r10K, Dynamic provisioning
strategies, Introduction to Designing Scalable Architecture, Introduction to
scaling ActiveMQ Messaging bus, Managing Puppet Effectively

Topics : Introduction to r10k, Puppet Files and Labs, R10k Command Reference,
Scalable Puppet Architecture, Foreman and Puppet Together, ActiveMQ Architecture

Practicals Covered : Install Puppetlabs, Configure r10k.

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