Program Overview:
This 2 -day course of Puppet Practitioner focuses on writing advanced manifests

Program Duration: 2 Days

Prerequisite Skills:
Must have completed Puppet fundamentals training of 2 days

Who should attend?
Targeted for Cloud engineers, Developers ,operations engineer ,Centre of excellence team, window server administrators, Unix/Linux administrator, Storage admins, network administrators , Virtualization administrators

Puppet Components

• Installing The Puppet Master & Learning Puppet Master Layout
• Installing The Puppet Enterprise Agent
• Puppet.conf
• Resource Abstraction Layer
• Facter
• Live Management
• Catalog Compilation

Building Modules And Classes

• Module Structure & Class Naming
• Defining And Testing Our First Class
• Declaring Classes And Creating Node Definitions
• Autoloading

Puppet DSL – Part 1

• DSL Overview
• Getting Started And Looking At Arrays
• Relationships And Dependencies (require/subscribe)
• Adding SSH Class To The Node Definition
• Relationships And Dependencies (before/notify)
• Conditional Statements
• Conditional Statement Best Practices
• Regular Expression If Statements
• Adding An Ubuntu Node And Testing
• Metaparameters
• Files And Resource Defaults
• Variables, Parametrization, And Scope
• Inheritance

Puppet DSL – Part 2

• rvalue Functions
• Templates
• Creating The NTP Class
• Resource Collectors
• Defining Class Parameters
• Class Parameters And Scope Example
• Variable/Class/Module Naming Conventions
• How Puppet Enforces Execution In A Catalog

Roles and Profiles

• Overview
• Creating A Profiles Module
• Creating A Roles Module

Hiera

• Hiera Overview
• Setting Up Our Configuration File And Data Sources
• Using Hiera By Example

Building An Apache Module

• Building The Environment And Overview
• Building The Apache Classes And Parameters
• Building The Core Classes And Resource Types
• Adding Directory Management
• Adding Defined Resource Types
• Creating The Required Templates And Testing
• Adding Multiple Virtual Host Files

Node Classification

• Site.pp and Node Definition Matching
• External Node Classifiers
• Classifying Node With The Console
• Using Site.pp With An ENC

Puppet Management

• Common Console Tasks
• Troubleshooting
• Reporting
• Preparing Modules For Puppet Forge & Downloading Forge Modules
• Deactivating a Puppet Enterprise Agent Node
• Event Inspector
• External Facts
• Checking Values of Settings
• Puppet Resource Command

Resource Type Practice

• Host
• Resource Type Titles
• Mount
• Exercise: Working With The Exec Resource Type