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Learning Puppet 4: A Guide to Configuration Management and Automation 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Jo Rhett (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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If you're a system administrator, developer, or site reliability engineer responsible for handling hundreds or even thousands of nodes in your network, the Puppet configuration management tool will make your job a whole lot easier. This practical guide shows you what Puppet does, how it works, and how it can provide significant value to your organization.

Through hands-on tutorials, DevOps engineer Jo Rhett demonstrates how Puppet manages complex and distributed components to ensure service availability. You’ll learn how to secure configuration consistency across servers, clients, your router, and even that computer in your pocket by setting up your own testing environment.

  • Learn exactly what Puppet is, why it was created, and what problems it solves
  • Tailor Puppet to your infrastructure with a design that meets your specific needs
  • Write declarative Puppet policies to produce consistency in your systems
  • Build, test, and publish your own Puppet modules
  • Manage network devices such as routers and switches with puppet device and integrated Puppet agents
  • Scale Puppet servers for high availability and performance
  • Explore web dashboards and orchestration tools that supplement and complement Puppet
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    978-1491907665
  2. Edition
    1st
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    On Kindle Scribe
  4. Publisher
    O'Reilly Media
  5. Publication date
    March 24, 2016
  6. Language
    English
  7. File size
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About the Author

Jo Rhett is a network architect and DevOps engineer with 20 years of experience conceptualizing and delivering large-scale Internet services. He focuses on creating automation and infrastructure to accelerate deployment and minimize outages.

Jo has been using, promoting, and enhancing configuration management systems for over 20 years. He builds improvements and plugins for CfEngine, Puppet, MCollective, and many other DevOps tools.

Jo is the author of Learning Puppet 4, Learning MCollective, and Instant Puppet 3 Starter (Packt).

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01DEBCN2O
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (March 24, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 24, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 9082 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 929 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

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Jo Rhett is a DevOps architect with 20 years of experience conceptualizing and delivering large-scale Internet services. He focuses on creating automation and infrastructure to accelerate deployment and minimize outages.

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KN
5.0 out of 5 stars but i like the book so far
Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2016
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haven't gone through the pages, but i like the book so far.
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Shachar Shapira
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2017
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Great Book!
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Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2020
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Puppet is better
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Csaba Antal
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2016
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Great book.
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1.0 out of 5 stars This book is Puppet users on Vagrant. So far, not a great book. Plus, it does not use Enterprise Puppet. Kind of useless for me.
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2017
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It has some information, but that does not mean it's good information. This book does not talk about Puppet Enterprise at all. It also does not talk about restarting all the puppet services when puppet goes down. It basically forces you to use Vagrant, something I do not want to use.
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1.0 out of 5 stars In the long history of bad Puppet books from Oreilly
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2017
In the long history of bad Puppet books from Oreilly, I'm giving this book the worst possible score. It might be better titled, "Upgrading to Puppet 4 for Vagrant Experts." It's a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book, but not in a good way because it lays out every possible outcome for some configurations, including entire chapters like "Using a Puppet Master" and "Using a Puppet Server" while advising against using a Puppet Master throughout the entire book. And why didn't the server chapters (section 3) come after the client chapter (3)? Do I need 15 reference chapters between installing the client and the server?

But these are minor annoyances compared to the major problems associated with the demo git repo. I'll admit that I'm far from a Vagrant expert, but why does it take one just to get the dev environment up and running? For example the default configuration is broken where Puppet Server is configured for 2gb of RAM usage, while the VM is only configured with 1GB, which is a non-starter for Puppet Server. Then they have unique IP addresses configured in the VagrantFile but they don't actually work and every VM ends up with the same IP (10.0.2.15) which isn't very helpful when the whole point of having 5 VMs is for them to conduct Puppet runs against the Puppet Server. Plus, it is completely incompatible with Vagrant 1.8, which was the current version when this book was released.

This appears to be a good reference book for people who are already familiar with Puppet, but not for beginners or anyone who is not already a heavy Vagrant user.
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flying_phoenix
5.0 out of 5 stars Like and enjoy the book so far
Reviewed in Canada on February 2, 2017
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Just finished reading the book. Like and enjoy the book so far. With some few slight modifications on some examples, I was able to identify the errors and correct it.

New to Puppet. Great book, and good deal. Keep it up the good work, and thank you for publishing this book. Jo! :)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Trés bon livre
Reviewed in France on October 5, 2016
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Tres bon livre. Meme avec un peu d'experience, on apprend pas mal de choses. Aborde les vraies sujets lués à Puppett
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2.0 out of 5 stars Tipp-Sammlung ohne roten Faden. Nicht für Anfänger.
Reviewed in Germany on August 19, 2016
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Ich bin jedenfalls absoluter Puppet Neuling und dachte mit diesem Buch finde ich einen guten Einstieg. Ist aber nicht so. Das Buch ist keine Schritt-für-Schritt Einführung. Ich würde aber auch nicht sagen, es richtet sich an den erfahrenen Puppet User. Eher handelt es sich um eine Sammlung von Puppet Tipps ohne roten Faden.
Nach detailreichen Puppet-Konfigurationstipps stürzt sich das Buch auf Sprachdetails. Es beantwortet aber nicht die Frage, wie ich Puppet in der Praxis verwende. Generell fehlen alle Beispiele, die länger sind als eine einzelne Resource-Deklarartion. Die Sprachdetails fallen dann auch unmotiviert aus dem Himmel: der Leser ist noch auf dem Level "aha ich kann eine Resource deklarieren" und dann werden Iterationen erklärt. Wie ich die Iterationen aber anwende bleibt unklar. Ein vollständige Sprachreferenz als Nachschlagewerk ist es aber auch nicht.
Schlecht ist das Buch auch bei der Vermittlung von den Konzepten hinter Puppet. Ich habe jetzt das ganze Buch gelesen bzw. überflogen und konnte so erfolgreich einen Puppet Server aufsetzen. Aber was muß ich jetzt tun, um meine Clients zu administrieren? Ich kann Puppet Manifeste schreiben - aber wo kommen die hin, wenn ich einen Server betreibe? Wie sagt der Client dem Server, welche Manifeste für ihn in Frage kommen?
Kann schon sein, daß solche Fragen irgendwo in einem Nebensatz beantwortet werden. Aber das große Ganze fehlt.

Fazit: ich bin nach diesem Buch nicht in der Lage mein eigene Puppet-Umgebung auszubauen...
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