Learning Path: Puppet: From Novice to an Expert Puppet User

🌟 Course Headline: Learning Path: Puppet: From Novice to an Expert User 🌟

Overview

In the rapidly evolving landscape of IT infrastructure, automation is not just a convenience—it's an essential tool for maintaining efficiency and scalability. Puppet, a robust configuration management platform, stands out as a solution to manage and automate complex IT environments with ease. Whether you're a developer, system administrator, or simply eager to expand your skillset, this Learning Path by Packt is meticulously crafted to guide you from the basics to mastery of Puppet.

Why Choose This Learning Path?

Packt’s Video Learning Paths are designed to provide a comprehensive learning experience. Each video builds upon the knowledge acquired in the previous one, ensuring that by the end of this course, you'll have a solid grasp of Puppet and its capabilities. Here's what you can expect:

🔹 Core Highlights of the Learning Path:

• An all-inclusive guide to configuring a scalable and highly available Puppet infrastructure.
• Skills development to run Puppet on single or multiple servers without a hitch.

Your Learning Journey

This Learning Path will take you through a series of steps, each designed to build upon the last. You'll begin with installing and setting up Puppet, and gradually progress to mastering complex concepts:

• Getting Started: Learn how to install and set up Puppet using real-world examples.
• Resource Management: Master different resource types in Puppet, write efficient manifests, handle dependencies, and utilize tags for greater control over your code.
• Deep Dive: Explore advanced topics such as scaling your Puppet infrastructure, integrating with PuppetDB using storeconfigs, and utilizing external node classifiers.
• Modern Infrastructure Management: Dive into the world of containerization by running Puppet components in Docker containers, creating Docker images with Puppet, and orchestrating applications and services with Mcollective.
• Custom Plugin Development: Learn how to craft your own plugins for Puppet, including facts, resource types, providers, and functions, to extend its capabilities.

Expert Insights

Our Learning Path is not just a collection of videos—it's a curated experience with insights from leading experts in the field:

🎓 Meet Your Experts:

• Toni Schmidbauer has over 17 years of experience with Unix/Linux and BSD systems, starting with CFEngine 2 in 2005 and moving to Puppet in 2010. He currently manages a large-scale Puppet infrastructure with around 2000 nodes running Solaris, AIX, and Linux.
• Anirban Saha is an infrastructure professional with over six and a half years of experience in managing and automating IT environments using tools like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack, and Terraform. He's a recognized speaker at industry conferences and the author of the "Salt Cookbook" published by Packt Publishing.

With their combined expertise, these authors have compiled their best works to ensure that your journey towards becoming a Puppet expert is both enriching and successful. 🚀

Embark on a transformative learning adventure with Packt's Learning Path: Puppet: From Novice to an Expert User, and master the art of IT automation and configuration management. Join us, and turn your IT infrastructure into a finely-tuned, automated machine! 🖥️✨