Instructor-Led Automation Training
Puppet – Develop and Maintain
2 days
Course topics include Hiera integration with roles and profiles, Puppet data types and core resource types, and Resource ordering relationships. Students will configure automated code deployment with Code Manager to speed up the development cycle. They will refactor Puppet code using Hiera, class parameters, and data types to make roles and profiles easier to reuse and maintain. Students will extend profiles to learn to reuse them without duplicating code. They will also Implement environment-based testing using node groups to test and deploy with confidence.
Prerequisites: It is recommended that students take the 2-day Puppet Deploy and Maintain course or Intro to Puppet course before taking this Develop course.
What you will learn:
- install and configure Puppet 7 servers and agents
- create and modify manifests that contain resource definitions
- create and modify classes
- create and modify modules
- create and modify node definitions
- create and modify environments
- apply manifests, classes, nodes, and environments
- extend Puppet with functions
- use (and extend) Facter facts
- generate basic reports
- use tools Bolt and Hiera 5
- design a “best practice” strategy for using Puppet capabilities
Course Outline
Puppet Resource Definitions and Declarations
overview of resource management
defining configuration resources
checking syntax of configuration resources
Puppet style guide
applying configuration resources (locally)
metaparameters
conditionals
arrays of resources
classes
parameterized classes
classes with inheritance (and parameters)
defined resources (definitions)
run stages
modules
virtual resource definitions
Puppet standard library functions
Creating Environments
environment definitions
PE console interactions
creating an environment group
defining agent allowed environment specification
pinning an agent to an environment group
setting up matching rules criteria
Extending Puppet with Reporting, Bolt and Hiera
reporting
transaction reporting
syslog (rsyslogd) reporting
Bolt
installing Bolt
initial ssh connection
defining a plan hierarchy
execution using a plan
Hiera
creating a Hiera hierarchy structure
using Hiera functions
ENC (external node classifiers)
creating an ENC procedure and files
how Puppet uses an ENC