Details
Prerequisites
In this course, we expect students to have a reasonable level of Puppet experience and are looking to expand their knowledge. Students should have completed Puppet Fundamentals or have the equivalent hands-on experience with Puppet - at least six months
to a year.
The course is designed for senior system administrators and DevOps professionals with a solid understanding of configuration management strategies.
- Know the command line. If you aren’t using it at present, please refresh yourself.
- Familiarity with Linux-y concepts such as services, packages and configuration files.
- Be familiar with a text editor such as vi, Vim, Emacs or nano. Puppet Labs trainers typically use Vim.
- You definitely need junior-level sysadmin skills. You should know:
- how to restart a service
- what an entry in /etc/hosts means
- what a hostname is
- how to troubleshoot basic networking problems such as name lookups, DNS lookups, and basic connectivity
- Be able to configure a virtual machine (your choice of VMware or VirtualBox) to use bridged or NAT networking
- Know how to navigate the file system.
- Have the Training VM downloaded to your computer before you show up. We will run through the configuration and installation process for this VM, so you don’t even need to boot it up yet. Just make sure that it’s on your computer and you know how to start it.
- Be ready to completely shift configuration management paradigms! Writing Puppet code is not like writing your average shell script, so prepare to learn a new way of thinking.
- More advanced Puppet DSL constructs that can be used to write more elegant code.
- Using data structures to create resources programmatically.
- Using custom facts to expose information about nodes.
- The concepts of modularity and composability and how they refer to module design.
- Methods for testing your Puppet code and infrastructure.
- Using MCollective from the command line to automate infrastructure orchestration.
- Troubleshooting techniques and standard log files.
- The Roles & Profiles design pattern and the benefits it offers.
- Several different methods for managing portions of files.
- Why the Anchor Pattern exists and when one should use it or the `contain()` function.
- Creating generalizable modules and contributing them back to the community via the Puppet Forge.
- Sharing functionality between classes using inheritance.
- Original training material from Puppet Labs
- Lunch for all 3 days of training
- Support and help after the training
What is next
Puppet Architect
3 days
Puppet
OlinData is an Open Source Training and Consulting company active in 20+ countries across the Northern Hemisphere. With highly experienced engineers and trainers, we conduct live, in-depth training classes and offer worldwide remote consulting for open source solutions.
Our high level of expertise ensures that we only deliver the best quality for our training and consulting services; while our proactive service offerings give you optimal service as we work with you to determine what is most suitable and needed for your environment.
Where does our name come from?
Olin was a dolphin that lived in the Red Sea, who followed a deaf boy, Abidallah, home one day and subsequently stayed by his village. Through their friendship, she helped him improve his self-confidence and standing within his tribe. Today, Abidallah’s hearing is improved and he is able to speak well too.
Inspired by Olin, we believe she is a perfect example of OlinData’s core values:
"We help improve the knowledge and performance of your technology by through our knowledge & expertise, speed and friendly customer service."
