Using Puppet - A Beginner's Tutorial
Puppet is a popular open-source configuration management solution. It’s written in Ruby and in use by organizations around the world to manage their assets more cheaply, more effectively, and with a view to delivering a higher quality of service.
Puppet is one of the easiest infrastructure tools you’ll ever use but it’s still helpful to have a hands-on introduction to how to get started. This tutorial doesn’t cover the deep technical details but allows you to focus on doing useful work as soon as possible.
In the course of the tutorial you’ll be exposed to most of the tools and configuration you will use in a functioning Puppet installation. By the end of the tutorial we’ll produce a simple Puppet architecture that can manage a few key services and applications. We’ll also demonstrate some of the more interesting problems Puppet simplifies solving and give you pointers towards developing more advanced Puppet patterns.
NOTE: Some basic set-up will be required PRIOR to attending this tutorial. Please read through the instructions here.
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James Turnbull
Puppet Labs
James Turnbull manages the CERT function for a major Australian bank and is the release manager for the Puppet project. He is the author of four books:
- Pro Linux System Administration
- Pulling Strings with Puppet: Systems Administration Made Easy about the Ruby-based Puppet configuration management tool.
- Hardening Linux, which focuses on hardening Linux bastion hosts including the base operating system, file systems, firewalling, connections, logging, testing your security and securing a number of common applications including e-mail, FTP and DNS.
- Pro Nagios 2.0 focuses on enterprise management using the Nagios open source tool.
James has previously worked as an Executive Manager of IT Security at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the CIO of a medical research foundation doing Web-based clinical trials, managing the architecture group of an outsourcing company and in a number of IT roles in gaming, telecommunications and government. He is an experienced infrastructure architect with a background in Linux/Unix, AS/400, Windows, and storage systems. He has been involved in security consulting, infrastructure security design, SLA and service definition and has an abiding interest in security metrics and measurement.
Jeff McCune
Puppet Labs
Veteran systems engineer providing training and consulting services to puppet users.
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