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Get started with Puppet, and learn how this popular configuration management framework helps you automate your servers. This concise introduction shows you how to use Puppets tools and templates to organize and execute configuration plans on Linux, Unix, and Windows servers. Through code samples and real-world examples, youll learn how to manage pools of servers and virtual instances, and how to administer access control. If youre new to Puppet, but familiar with systems administration and Ruby language basics, this book is the ideal way to start using this open source framework. Learn Puppet fundamentals, including its manifest syntax and built-in functions Store configurations in a central location with PuppetMaster, and define which configurations apply to which nodes Build a framework to create user accounts in place of LDAP or Kerberos KDC Apply techniques to execute and manage server configurations with MCollective Use Puppet as an auditing tool to ensure that configurations are correct Gather information on the nodes you manage with the Facter library

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Managing Infrastructure with Puppet
James Loope
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Meghan Blanchette
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This book is for anyone using or considering Puppet as a systems automation tool. Readers of this book should be familiar with Linux systems administration and basic Ruby. Ill cover the basics of using Puppet manifests for configuration management and techniques for executing and managing those configurations with MCollective and Facter. Ill often make suggestions that assume you are managing a virtualized infrastructure, but virtualization is not necessary to reap the benefits of this software.

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This book is focused on Puppet 2.6.1 with Facter 1.5.6, and the MCollective version used is 1.0.1. Because of the very active development of all of these products, concepts and examples may not apply to earlier versions.

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Chapter 1. Baby Steps to Automation

Puppet is a configuration management framework with an object-oriented twist. It provides a declarative language syntax and an abstraction layer that allow you to write heavily reusable and understandable configuration definitions. In this chapter, Ill cover the basics of the Puppet programs, the language syntax, and some simple class and resource definitions.

Getting the Software

A Puppet deployment comes with a couple of pieces of software. For the most part, these can be installed from your chosen Linux distributions package manager. Alternatively, you can use the packages or source provided by Puppet Labs at http://www.puppetlabs.com/misc/download-options/. In my examples, Ive used Ubuntu Linux 11.04, but the packages are very similar in each distro. There are generally two packages: the Puppet package itself, which comes with Facter, and the Puppet Master server. For the purposes of this chapter, the Puppet and Facter package will suffice. When installed, it will include an init script to start an agent daemon at boot, which will look for a Puppet Master. For simplicitys sake, we will test manifests from the command line using the puppet apply command to begin:

  • Ubuntu: apt-get install puppet

  • Fedora: yum install puppet

  • Mac OS X: port install puppet

Introducing Puppet

Puppet helps you organize and execute configuration plans on servers. This is enabled through a resource abstraction layer that allows you to address the different configurable components of your system as generic objects. In the Puppet view, a server is a collection of resource objects that have a set of particular attributes that describe how that object looks.

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