Overview
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Dive into working with Puppet. Explore both core concepts and advanced topics, including how to automate tests using Travis CI and securely separate data from code using Hiera.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you need to know
- Exercise files
- Resources
- Classes
- The node graph
- Generate a node graph
- Defined resource types
- Variables and conditionals
- Iteration
- Facts and functions
- More resources
- ✓ Challenge: Simplify a manifest
- ✓ Solution: Simplify a manifest
- Setting up a control repo
- Review of roles and profiles
- Configure r10k
- Install a webhook
- Configure a webhook in GitHub
- Code environments
- Hiera overview
- YAML
- Encrypt Hiera data with hiera-eyaml
- Set up eyaml in control repo
- Types of testing
- Setting up rspec-puppet
- Your first rspec-puppet test
- Automated testing with Travis CI
- Beaker testing
- Setting up Beaker
- Puppet module review
- The ELK stack
- The Puppet Forge
- Installing the ELK stack
- Create a Puppetfile
- Installing Filebeat
- Installing the ELK stack
- Finishing touches
- ELK role and profile
- Deploy the ELK stack
- Built-in report processors
- Set up PuppetDB
- Complex templates
- Monitor Puppet in ELK
- Exported resources
- Types and providers
- Custom facts
- Next steps
