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Pulling Strings with Puppet

Configuration Management Made Easy

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  • © 2007

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Authors:
  1. James Turnbull
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  • Shows readers how to take advantage of the powerful Puppet solution to automate complex system administration tasks

  • Discusses reporting solutions to allow for easily monitoring of automated outcomes

  • Extends Puppet to perform tasks which are capable of suiting your organization's most specific needs

  • Author is James Turnbull, author of several well-respected books on system administration

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introducing Puppet

    Pages 1-9

  3. Installing and Running Puppet

    Pages 11-40

  4. Speaking Puppet

    Pages 41-88

  5. Using Puppet

    Pages 89-120

  6. Reporting on Puppet

    Pages 121-130

  7. Advanced Puppet

    Pages 131-151

  8. Extending Puppet

    Pages 153-169
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About this book

Competent system administrators know their success hinges upon being able to perform often tedious tasks with rigor and punctuality. Such metrics are often achieved only by instituting a considerable degree of automation, something that has become even more crucial as IT environments continue to scale both in terms of size and complexity. One of the most powerful system administration tools to be released is Puppet, a solution capable of automating nearly every aspect of a system administrator's job, from user management, to software installation, to even configuring server services such as FTP and LDAP.

Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy is the first book to introduce the powerful Puppet system administration tool. Author James Turnbull will guide you through Puppet's key features, showing you how to install and configure the software, create automated Puppet tasks, known as recipes, and even create reporting solutions and extend Puppet further to your own needs. A bonus chapter is included covering the Facter library, which makes it a breeze to automate the retrieval of server configuration details such as IP and MAC addresses.

About the author

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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