Building, Testing, and Deploying Professional Puppet Modules
Pluralsight
Course Summary
This course takes your Puppet skills from knowledge of basic manifests to writing professional-quality modules. You will learn to create modules, test with rspec, separate site-specific data from code with Hiera and validate your modules using Vagrant.
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Course Description
Puppet is one of the most widely deployed configuration management tools available. In Building, Testing, and Deploying Professional Puppet Modules, you'll learn how to create Puppet modules using Puppet Best Practices as a guideline. First, you'll learn how to set up your development workstation with the right tools that will help you identify errors sooner and write code faster. Next, you'll learn how to use Hiera to separate site-specific data from Puppet code, allowing you to reuse your modules anywhere. Finally, you'll learn in-depth knowledge of how to create a Puppet module and test it using rspec. When you are finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge needed to build professional-quality Puppet modules suitable for any size environment.
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Course Syllabus
Course Overview- 1m 40s
—Course Overview 1m 40sCourse Introduction- 7m 14s
—Course Introduction 7m 14sReal World Workflow with Git- 13m 43sBootstrapping with Vagrant- 46m 41sLocal Environment Setup (OS X/Linux)- 17m 10sLocal Environment Setup (Windows)- 12m 35sJust the Facts- 16m 53sUsing Hiera- 33m 42sMaking Modules- 1h 1mEnvironments- 14m 29sUsing Puppet in Your Own Environment- 7m 59s