Getting Started With Puppet

Getting Started With Puppet

Summary

This instructor-led course provides a guided, hands-on approach for new users to manage their infrastructure using the power of Puppet’s products. Lab-focused and opinionated, Getting Started with Puppet provides a faster way to bring your IT environment under control by using Puppet, tasks and Bolt, Puppet Development Kit (PDK) and the Puppet Forge. Leave class with the tools and resources you need to automate your infrastructure and get up and running faster than ever.

Description

Getting Started with Puppet is a three-day course with a guided, hands-on approach, designed for users who are new to managing their infrastructure using Puppet’s products. Lab-focused and prescriptive, the course will give you the tools and resources to automate your infrastructure and get up and running faster than ever.

What you will learn:

  • How to set up a Puppet development environment
  • How to bring an unmanaged IT infrastructure under control
  • How and when to run ad hoc tasks with Bolt and Puppet tasks
  • How and when to manage system state using Puppet modules
  • How to manage Windows and Linux servers using a common Puppet codebase

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FAQ

Technical Requirements

Puppet courses have specific technical requirements. Review the documentation to ensure your system meets the requirements for this course.

Price

Duration

3 Days

Audience

This course is intended for sysadmins, SREs, DevOps engineers or similar who manage Windows, Linux, or Unix infrastructure and could use a hands-on introduction to managing their infrastructure with Puppet.

Prerequisites

This course assumes you know how to deploy applications on your operating system and you know a scripting language.

Outline

Day 1

  • Puppet products overview
  • Explore the Puppet Enterprise console
  • Run Puppet Discovery
  • Run Puppet Bolt and tasks
  • Understand Puppet task plans
  • Understand declarative and imperative Puppet concepts
  • Set up your lab environment

Day 2

  • Understand the lifecycle of a Puppet agent run
  • Use Puppet modules from the Forge
  • Create wrapper modules
  • Apply basic module testing
  • Create role and profile modules

Day 3

  • Create a baseline with Puppet
  • Create and accept parameters in the baseline
  • Define an application stack with Puppet

Upcoming Classes

United States

Location Nov 2019 Dec 2019 Jan 2020 Feb 2020 Mar 2020 Apr 2020 May 2020 Jun 2020 Jul 2020
New York - MicroTek Nov 19 – Nov 21
Portland - Puppet Office Classroom Jan 14 – Jan 16
 Apr 7 – Apr 9

United Kingdom

Location Nov 2019 Dec 2019 Jan 2020 Feb 2020 Mar 2020 Apr 2020 May 2020 Jun 2020 Jul 2020
London - Puppet Office Nov 19 – Nov 21
 Feb 11 – Feb 13

Belgium

Location Nov 2019 Dec 2019 Jan 2020 Feb 2020 Mar 2020 Apr 2020 May 2020 Jun 2020 Jul 2020
Nossegem - Open-Future (Puppet Partner) Nov 19 – Nov 21

Singapore

Location Nov 2019 Dec 2019 Jan 2020 Feb 2020 Mar 2020 Apr 2020 May 2020 Jun 2020 Jul 2020
Singapore - Cliftons Dec 3 – Dec 5
 Feb 18 – Feb 20

Australia

Location Nov 2019 Dec 2019 Jan 2020 Feb 2020 Mar 2020 Apr 2020 May 2020 Jun 2020 Jul 2020
Sydney - Cliftons Dec 10 – Dec 12
 Mar 24 – Mar 26
Melbourne - Cliftons Feb 4 – Feb 6

Online

Instructor-led online training

Location Nov 2019 Dec 2019 Jan 2020 Feb 2020 Mar 2020 Apr 2020 May 2020 Jun 2020 Jul 2020
US West - Online Dec 3 – Dec 5
 Jan 7 – Jan 9
 Feb 11 – Feb 13
 Mar 10 – Mar 12
 Apr 14 – Apr 16
US East - Online Dec 10 – Dec 12
 Jan 21 – Jan 23
 Feb 18 – Feb 20
 Mar 17 – Mar 19
 Apr 21 – Apr 23
Europe GMT - Online Jan 14 – Jan 16
 Apr 7 – Apr 9
APAC - Online Feb 11 – Feb 13

Onsite Training

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Upcoming Classes

New York, NY

Portland, OR

London

Nossegem

Singapore, Singapore

Sydney, NSW

Melbourne, VIC

US West - Online

US East - Online

Europe GMT - Online

APAC - Online

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