Managing Infrastructure with Puppet: Configuration Management at Scale

by James Loope

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 Puppet’s tools and templates to organize and execute configuration plans on Linux, Unix, and Windows servers. Through code samples and real-world examples, you’ll learn how to manage pools of servers and virtual instances, and how to administer access control. If you’re 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.

52 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Zeromind · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is little better than than an extended PowerPoint presentation on a couple elements of puppet. For someone looking for a book on how to setup management of several systems using puppet, go some whee else. It doesn't provide an overview of the puppet system. It doesn't provide a management framework example into which Puppet is deployed. It makes passing reference to needs of system and service life cycle management but fails to provide a very robust example. I think I get more out of the online documentation.

[Alex Ott · Rating 4 out of 5]

Between 3 & 4...
Book provides very short introduction to Puppet - base principles, constructs, etc. But this isn't a Puppet reference - you'll need to take another book (or grab documentation) if you want to find more information

[Ivan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Definitely a good one - without wasting too much time gave me this 'taste of blood', able to understand basics and eager to apply to a particular problem. Also now I'm closer to understanding the difference between provisioning and deployment :)

[Sebastian · Rating 3 out of 5]

it's really just a short introduction and scratches every topic just a little bit. It's ok to give you a rough idea what puppet is about but you most likely need additional ressources to implement mid-size and larger installation

[Peter Sellars · Rating 2 out of 5]

Really did nothing more than skim the surface of some Puppet capabilities. Would not say it provided a brief overview having read Pro Puppet and used Puppet for some time now. Useful reference content but not recommended if looking for an overview or in depth Puppet book.

[Anton Antonov · Rating 1 out of 5]

Rip-off..? Rip-off!

Leaves you with more questions than answers.

There are better reads about Puppet and the official Puppet labs "Learn" section is also a much better and up-to-date.


I will check out "Learning Puppet 4" next to gain a better insight on Puppet.

[Ragheed · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice (but a bit outdated), fast introduction to puppet.
The MCollective part was kinda useless though.

Moving to a more in depth read about Puppet!