Puppet Techniques for Enterprise Deployments (Udemy.com)

Automate your IT infrastructure with the latest techniques in Puppet!

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Created by: Packt Publishing

Produced in 2017

What you will learn

Go through the different methods of reporting with Puppet
Configure open source dashboards such as Foreman and Puppet board for visualizing Puppet data
Use report processors and create custom processors
Exploit PuppetDB to configure and create efficient Puppet reports and monitor Puppet changes
Implement Nagios-based monitoring using Puppet
Secure Puppet deployments and master methods to harden infrastructure using community modules
Debug errors in the Puppet environment

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Course Description

Puppet is a configurationmanagement 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 andubiquitous internet presence, it's becoming increasingly important toimplement scalable and portable solutions, not only in terms ofsoftware, but also the systems that run it.
This video course willbegin by covering methods of reporting with Puppet and configuringvarious types of open source dashboards along with procedures to usereport processors and create custom ones. You will then exploit PuppetDBto configure and create efficient Puppet reports and also to monitorPuppet changes and alert based on the same. Finally, you will learnabout how to implement Nagios based monitoring using Puppet.
Towards the end of thevideo course, you will concentrate on Puppet security. You will alsolearn about procedures to secure the Puppet deployments and methods toharden infrastructure using community modules. Finally, we'll learn howto debug errors in the Puppet environment.
About The Author

Anirban Saha is aninfrastructure professional with more than six and half years ofexperience in infrastructure management at various industries andorganizations ranging from early startups to corporate environments. Hewas worked extensively with configuration management and automationtools including Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack, Terraform to name afew. He has extensive experience in architecting, deployment andmanagement of large infrastructures. He speaks at various conferences onlatest technologies and is also the author of Salt Cookbook publishedby Packt.

Who this course is for:

This video course is targeted at experienced professionals who have already mastered advanced topics in Puppet and want to implement added functionalities that Puppet provides for enterprise-level deployments.

Time: 2h

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