Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers: Automate your infrastructure at an enterprise scale

by David Sandilands

Harness the power of this popular declarative configuration management tool to automate your infrastructure configuration Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook As DevOps and platform engineering drive the demand for robust internal development platforms, the need for infrastructure configuration tools has never been greater. Puppet, a powerful configuration management tool, is widely used by leading enterprises and boasts a thriving open source community. This book provides a comprehensive explanation of both the Puppet language and the platform. It begins by helping you grasp the basic concepts and approach of Puppet as a stateful language, and then builds up to explaining how to structure Puppet code to scale and allow flexibility and collaboration among teams. As you advance, you'll find out how the Puppet platform allows the management and reporting of infrastructure configuration. The book also shows you how the platform can be integrated with other tooling, such as ServiceNow and Splunk. The concluding chapters help you implement Puppet to fit in heavily regulated and audited environments as well as modern hybrid cloud environments. By the end of this book, you'll have gained a solid understanding of the capabilities of both the Puppet language and platform, and you will have learned how to structure and scale Puppet to create a platform to provide enterprise-grade infrastructure configuration. This book is for DevOps engineers looking to automate infrastructure with Puppet as a configuration management tool. It will allow both beginners and current Puppet users to understand the full power of the Puppet language and platform. A basic understanding of Unix system administration and Windows systems and core development concepts such as revision control tools like git, virtualization, testing, and coding tooling like vi or Visual Studio code is a prerequisite.

416 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2023

About the author

David focuses on the product management of Puppet’s development ecosystem and integrations. This includes management of the Forge, supported modules, Puppet Developer Kit and integrations such as ServiceNow and Splunk. Before this, he worked within Puppet’s Solutions Architect team where he helped Puppet’s largest customers deliver infrastructure automation at scale and supported these customers DevOps working practices. He spent eight years at NatWest as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer delivering their IaaS Platform.

David has a passion for delivering change into traditional working environments, breaking down team silos, and integrating DevOps working practices within heavily regulated and audited environments. David is a keen hillwalker (Munroist number: 3085), enjoys sci-fi and fantasy books and regularly visits most of Scotland's tractor parks with his two sons and wife.