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
Downloads
Technical Requirements
Puppet courses have specific technical requirements. Review the documentation to ensure your system meets the requirements for this course.
Price
- Public: $2,400 USD
- Private: Request a Quote
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
Online
Instructor-led online training
Location | Apr 2021 | May 2021 | Jun 2021 | Jul 2021 | Aug 2021 | Sep 2021 | Oct 2021 | Nov 2021 | Dec 2021 |
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US East - Online |
Apr 13 – Apr 15 |
May 25 – May 27 |
Jun 29 – Jul 1 |
Jul 27 – Jul 29 | |||||
US West - Online |
Apr 20 – Apr 22 |
May 18 – May 20 |
Jun 15 – Jun 17 |
Jul 13 – Jul 15 | |||||
Europe GMT - Online |
May 11 – May 13 |
Jun 29 – Jul 1 | |||||||
APAC - Online |
May 18 – May 20 |
Jul 6 – Jul 8 | |||||||
APAC-SGT - Online |
Jun 8 – Jun 10 | ||||||||
Puppet Led GMT+1 |
Jun 14 – Jun 16 |