James Loope

Managing Infrastructure with Puppet (eBook, PDF)

Configuration Management at Scale

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 functionsStore configurations in a central location with PuppetMaster, and define which configurations apply to which nodesBuild a framework to create user accounts in place of LDAP or Kerberos KDCApply techniques to execute and manage server configurations with MCollectiveUse Puppet as an auditing tool to ensure that configurations are correctGather information on the nodes you manage with the Facter library

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 56
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781449313821
• Artikelnr.: 40315664

Autorenporträt

James Loope is the Operations Lead at Janrain. He is a specialist in scalable infrastructure, virtualization, cloud infrastructure and computer security.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Software
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
Safari® Books Online
How to Contact Us
Content Updates
Chapter 1: Baby Steps to Automation
1.1 Getting the Software
1.2 Introducing Puppet
1.3 Getting Started
1.4 The Puppet Master
Chapter 2: Puppeteering
2.1 Defines
2.2 Inheritance and Parameterized Classes
2.3 Virtual Resources
2.4 Variables
2.5 Resource Chaining
2.6 Templates
Chapter 3: Who Needs LDAP?
3.1 Building the Framework
3.2 Declaring Users
3.3 Throw Away the Handwritten Notebooks
Chapter 4: MCollective
4.1 Getting the Software
4.2 MCollective Commands
Chapter 5: Puppetry with Friends
5.1 Environments
5.2 Reporting
Chapter 6: Extending Puppet
6.1 Custom Functions
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