Building the Puppet Environment

Building the Puppet Environment

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level

Overview/Description
In this course, you will learn the basic concepts of automated configuration with Puppet. The installation and configuration of Puppet in the cloud will be covered. Puppet facts for advanced server configuration will be demonstrated.

Target Audience
IT professionals including application developers, managers, cloud engineers, or cloud architects

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
1.0

Lesson Objectives

Building the Puppet Environment

start the course

describe the concepts of Puppet and its configuration options

install and configure Puppet master on Amazon Web Services EC2

install and configure Puppet agent on Amazon EC2

build out the Puppet cloud environment and getting it all to work

use the Puppet Facter utility

use core Puppet facts for server configuration

use custom Puppet facts for server configuration

use the Puppet FACTERLIB variable for custom configuration options

use external Puppet facts for advanced configuration options

set a Puppet agent to be configured by a Puppet master

Course Number:
os_dopu_a01_it_enus

Expertise Level
Intermediate