Course Catalog
Instructor-led Training
Puppet Fundamentals
Learn firsthand best practices for managing your infrastructure with Puppet Enterprise. You’ll learn how to install Puppet Enterprise, write classes, and create modules.
Puppetizing Infrastructure
Quickly get started managing your infrastructure with your existing Puppet Master-agent setup. You'll learn the essential concepts of the Puppet Enterprise ecosystem required to describe and manage your infrastructure using publicly available modules.
Puppet Practitioner
Learn how to design and build modules following best practices, extend modules from the Forge and develop best practices for implementing roles and profiles.
Puppet Architect
Learn practical skills used to architect Puppet infrastructure and to understand interactions between different components. This course is also taught as a remote in-person class, while the instructor is teaching in a classroom face to face, so users can remotely participate in an in-person class.
Introduction to DevOps
Learn core DevOps principles, common tools, methodologies, and how they can be leveraged in your organization.
Online Instructor-led Training
Intro to Puppet
Get a quick primer on Puppet before you get into the weeds. Learn why you should use Puppet Enterprise and get exposed to the core concepts of the Puppet DSL and Puppet Enterprise capabilities.
Virtual Puppetizing Infrastructure
Quickly get started managing your infrastructure with your existing Puppet Master-agent setup. You'll learn the essential concepts of the Puppet Enterprise ecosystem required to describe and manage your infrastructure using publicly available modules.
Virtual Puppet Fundamentals
Learn firsthand best practices for managing your infrastructure with Puppet Enterprise. You’ll learn how to install Puppet Enterprise, write classes, and create modules.
Virtual Puppet Practitioner
Learn how to design and build modules following best practices, extend modules from the Forge and develop best practices for implementing roles and profiles.
Virtual Puppet Architect
Learn practical skills used to architect Puppet infrastructure and to understand interactions between different components. This course is also taught as a remote in-person class, while the instructor is teaching in a classroom face to face, so users can remotely participate in an in-person class.
Puppet Essentials for Windows
In Puppet Essentials for Windows students will learn how to manage Windows systems using Puppet following best practices.
Puppet 4 Parser
Learn about the new features in the Puppet 4 parser including consistency features, data type support, about breaking changes, and how to update legacy patterns.
Self-paced Training
Virtual TTT: Quiz
Here, you can double check what you learned to make sure you are on track.
Review the materials or email the education team at dept-education@puppet.com if you need any further clarification on the material.
The Puppet exec resource type
The `exec` resource type allows you to execute a command directly using Puppet. Learn how to use this versatile and powerful tool correctly.
Introduction to Testing Puppet
Review of the different kinds of tests, the basics of testing Puppet code, how you can get started with testing, and how testing can enable you to move faster in development with less risk.
Introduction to the Linux Command Line
The exercises in the self-paced courses use Linux. This course provides a basic introduction to the Linux command line.
Getting Started with Hiera
Hiera is a key/value lookup to that is useful for separating data from puppet code. This course is a hands-on exploration of some of the primary features of Hiera.
What is Puppet
Puppet manages your infrastructure. You describe configurations in an easy-to-read declarative language, and Puppet will bring your systems into the desired state and keep them there.
What is Puppet Enterprise
Puppet Enterprise is IT automation software that gives system administrators the power to easily automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploy critical applications, and proactively manage infrastructure, on-premises or in the cloud.
Puppet Enterprise automates tasks at any stage of the IT infrastructure lifecycle, including: discovery, provisioning, OS & app configuration management, orchestration, and reporting.
Autoloading
Autoloading in Puppet means that your modules will be loaded by Puppet at compile time, as long as they follow a predictable structure. This course will help you with the basics of Autoloading.
An Introduction to Facter
Facter is Puppet’s cross-platform system profiling library. It discovers and reports per-node facts, which are available in your Puppet manifests as variables.
Relationships
The order of resources in a Puppet manifest does not matter. Puppet assumes that most resources are not related to each other and will manage the resources in whatever order is most efficient.
An Introduction to the Forge
The Puppet Forge is a community of content creators. It is also a repository of modules, written by our community of Puppet users, for both Puppet Open Source and Puppet Enterprise IT automation software.
Event Inspector
The Event Inspector, part of the Puppet Enterprise Console, is a reporting tool that provides data for investigating the current state of your infrastructure. Its focus is on correlating information and presenting it from multiple perspectives in order to reveal common causes behind related events.
Puppet NTP
Your entire datacenter, from the network to the applications, depends on consistent time for many different functions, such as security services, certificate validation, and file sharing across nodes.
An Introduction to Roles & Profiles
Roles and Profiles are a design concept that can make your Puppet configuration easier to maintain and use.
