Puppet Starter Package
Have a look at the course outlineStarting from scratch with Infrastructure as Code and Puppet can be a daunting task. This course allows you to get up to speed quickly with IaC and Puppet best practices - whether you're managing Linux, *NIX, MacOS or Windows.
1. The basics of declarative configuration management
- Declarative programming
- Desired state
- Idempotency
- Convergence
- Mutability and immutability
- Frying and baking
- Push and pull models
- Separation of data and code
2. Puppet basics
- What is Puppet
- How does Puppet work
- What can Puppet manage
- What Puppet can not manage
- What real-world problems does Puppet solve
3. Puppet operating modes
- Puppet server with agents
- Serverless Puppet
- Puppet Bolt
- Puppet apply
4. Puppet language
- Resources
- Facts
- Templates
- Classes
- Defined resource types
- Modules
- Developing custom types and providers
5. Using existing Puppet modules
6. Separating code and data with Hiera
7. Using Puppet for configuration management
- Pull model: Puppet server and agents
- Push model: Puppet Bolt
8. Orchestration with Puppet Bolt
9. Integrating Puppet with Terraform
10. Using Puppet to build images and containers with Packer
11. Quality assurance
- Developing and testing Puppet code in Vagrant
- Writing rspec unit tests
- Writing Litmus acceptance tests
12. Workflow
- Version control (Git)
- Development in a test environment
- Verifying and testing
- Production deployment
