What's Here?
The information in these pages is organised like chapters in a
book. There are six main chapters and a bunch of appendices. If we
consider a fellow enquirer-after-the-truth getting to know his
latest eBay purchase - a painstakingly reconstructed fossilised
dinosaur, no less! - the chapters are the main backbone of
the animal, proceding from head to tail on a joyful voyage of
paleontological discovery, while the appendices are the various
appendages such as ribs, legs, spiky bits etc. - the meaningful
anatomical digressions which contribute to the overall
function.
As analogies go, I must admit that was a bit unusual, but I'm new
to this writing lark and it seemed like a good idea at the time. Ahem.
Moving on...
Chapters
- Chapter 1 - Planning a Puppet Infrastructure
- In which we have a sit-and-think about the task ahead of us and a Puppet platform
is conceived.
- Chapter 2 - Puppet Enterprise Installation
- In which we demonstrate just how easy it is to install Puppet Enterprise.
- Chapter 3 - Using Hiera
- In which we investigate the enormously helpful Hiera and make our first hierarchy.
- Chapter 4 - Auto-provisioning With Cloud Provisioner
- In which we expound upon the marvels of Cloud Provisioner and produce servers out of thin air!
- Chapter 5 - Controlling Puppet Configuration With Git
- In which we start keeping tabs on our Puppet code, and arrange its automatic deployment.
- Chapter 6 - Puppet Enterprise Roll-out Plan
- In which we invite you to Create Your Own Adventure...
Appendices
Scripts
Any scripts referred to in the text may be found here: