Pro Puppet

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Getting Started with Puppet

   • James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune

   Pages 1-27

3. Building Hosts with Puppet

   • James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune

   Pages 29-64

4. Working with Environments

   • James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune

   Pages 65-88

5. Puppet Scalability

   • James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune

   Pages 89-118

6. Externalizing Puppet Configuration

   • James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune

   Pages 119-131

7. Exporting and Storing Configuration

   • James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune

   Pages 133-158

8. Puppet Consoles: Puppet Dashboard and The Foreman

   • James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune

   Pages 159-187

9. Tools and Integration

   • James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune

   Pages 189-230

10. Reporting with Puppet

    • James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune

    Pages 231-240

11. Extending Facter and Puppet

    • James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune

    Pages 241-263

12. Marionette Collective

    • James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune

    Pages 265-287

13. Back Matter

    Pages 289-318

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Pro Puppet is an in-depth guide to installing, using, and developing the popular configuration management tool Puppet. The book is a comprehensive follow-up to the previous title Pulling Strings with Puppet. Puppet provides a way to automate everything from user management to server configuration. You'll learn how to create Puppet recipes, extend Puppet, and use Facter to gather configuration data from your servers.

Puppet is a must-have tool for system administrators, and Pro Puppet will teach you how to maximize its capabilities and customize it for your environment.

• Install and configure Puppet to immediately start automating tasks and create reporting solutions
• Learn insider tricks and techniques to better manage your infrastructure
• Become a Puppet expert!

James Turnbull is the author of five technical books about open source software and a longtime member of the open source community. James authored the first and second books about Puppet, and works for Puppet Labs, running client services. James speaks regularly at conferences including OSCON, Linux.conf.au, FOSDEM, OpenSourceBridge, DevOpsDays and a number of others. He is a past president of Linux Australia, has run Linux.conf.au and serves on the program committee of Linux.conf.au and OSCON. James is Australian but currently lives in Portland, Oregon. His interests include cooking, wine, political theory, photojournalism, philosophy, and most recently the Portland Timbers association football team.

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