Getting Started With Puppet

Getting Started With Puppet

Summary

This 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, Puppet Discovery, 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 and 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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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 Mar 2019 Apr 2019 May 2019 Jun 2019 Jul 2019 Aug 2019 Sep 2019 Oct 2019 Nov 2019
New York - MicroTek May 7 – May 9
Portland - Puppet Office Classroom May 21 – May 23

United Kingdom

Location Mar 2019 Apr 2019 May 2019 Jun 2019 Jul 2019 Aug 2019 Sep 2019 Oct 2019 Nov 2019
London - Puppet Office May 14 – May 16

Netherlands

Location Mar 2019 Apr 2019 May 2019 Jun 2019 Jul 2019 Aug 2019 Sep 2019 Oct 2019 Nov 2019
Amsterdam - Amazic Apr 8 – Apr 10
 Jun 24 – Jun 26

Belgium

Location Mar 2019 Apr 2019 May 2019 Jun 2019 Jul 2019 Aug 2019 Sep 2019 Oct 2019 Nov 2019
Nossegem - Open-Future May 7 – May 9
 Sep 24 – Sep 26
 Nov 19 – Nov 21

Germany

Location Mar 2019 Apr 2019 May 2019 Jun 2019 Jul 2019 Aug 2019 Sep 2019 Oct 2019 Nov 2019
Essen - example42 Jul 22 – Jul 24
 Oct 21 – Oct 23
Berlin - example42 May 6 – May 8
 Sep 30 – Oct 2
example42 - Munich May 22 – May 24
 Nov 11 – Nov 13

Switzerland

Location Mar 2019 Apr 2019 May 2019 Jun 2019 Jul 2019 Aug 2019 Sep 2019 Oct 2019 Nov 2019
Olten - Camptocamp Jun 4 – Jun 6

Singapore

Location Mar 2019 Apr 2019 May 2019 Jun 2019 Jul 2019 Aug 2019 Sep 2019 Oct 2019 Nov 2019
Singapore - MicroTek Apr 2 – Apr 4
 Jul 16 – Jul 18

Australia

Location Mar 2019 Apr 2019 May 2019 Jun 2019 Jul 2019 Aug 2019 Sep 2019 Oct 2019 Nov 2019
Sydney - Cliftons Jun 18 – Jun 20
Canberra - Cliftons May 7 – May 9
Melbourne - Cliftons Apr 9 – Apr 11
 Jul 9 – Jul 11

Online

Instructor-led online training

Location Mar 2019 Apr 2019 May 2019 Jun 2019 Jul 2019 Aug 2019 Sep 2019 Oct 2019 Nov 2019
US West - Online Apr 9 – Apr 11
 May 7 – May 9
 Jun 4 – Jun 6
 Jul 9 – Jul 11
Europe GMT - Online Apr 9 – Apr 11
 Jun 18 – Jun 20
US East - Online Apr 16 – Apr 18
 May 14 – May 16
 Jun 11 – Jun 13
 Jul 16 – Jul 18
APAC - Online May 14 – May 16

Onsite Training

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Upcoming Classes

New York, NY

Portland, OR

London

Nieuw Vennep

Nossegem

Essen

Olten

Berlin

Munich

Singapore

Sydney, NSW

Canberra City, ACT

Melbourne, VIC

US West - Online

Europe GMT - Online

US East - Online

APAC - Online

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