Getting Started with Puppet

Abstract

Puppet is an open source framework and toolset for managing the configuration of computer systems. This book looks at how you can use Puppet to manage your configuration. As the book progresses, we’ll introduce Puppet’s features and show you how to integrate Puppet into your provisioning and management lifecycle. To do this, we’ll take you through configuring a real-world scenario that we’ll introduce in Chapter 2. In Chapter 3, we’ll show you how to implement a successful Puppet workflow using version control and Puppet environments. In Chapter 4, we’ll show you how to build high availability and horizontal scalability into your Puppet infrastructure. The rest of the book will focus on extending what you can do with Puppet and its ecosystem of tools, and on gaining unprecedented visibility into your infrastructure.