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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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

Germany

Location Aug 2020 Sep 2020 Oct 2020 Nov 2020 Dec 2020 Jan 2021 Feb 2021 Mar 2021 Apr 2021
Essen - example42 (Puppet Partner) Nov 16 – Nov 18
Berlin - example42 (Puppet Partner) Sep 28 – Sep 30
example42 - Munich (Puppet Partner) Sep 21 – Sep 23
 Dec 14 – Dec 16

Online

Instructor-led online training

Location Aug 2020 Sep 2020 Oct 2020 Nov 2020 Dec 2020 Jan 2021 Feb 2021 Mar 2021 Apr 2021
APAC - Online Aug 25 – Aug 27
 Nov 17 – Nov 19
Europe GMT - Online Sep 15 – Sep 17
 Nov 17 – Nov 19
US East - Online Sep 15 – Sep 17
 Oct 13 – Oct 15
 Nov 10 – Nov 12
 Dec 8 – Dec 10
 Jan 12 – Jan 14
US West - Online Sep 22 – Sep 24
 Oct 20 – Oct 22
 Nov 17 – Nov 19
 Dec 15 – Dec 17
 Jan 26 – Jan 28
Berlin/CET - Online Nov 9 – Nov 11
APAC-JST - Online Dec 1 – Dec 3

Onsite Training

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Upcoming Classes

Essen

Berlin

Munich

APAC - Online

Europe GMT - Online

US East - Online

US West - Online

Berlin/CET - Online

APAC-JST - Online

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