Puppet Practitioner

Puppet Practitioner

Summary

Learn how to design, build, and extend modules from the Forge and develop best practices for implementing roles and profiles.

Description

This course is offered both in-person and virtually. The full course schedule, including virtual classes, is available below.

In this three-day course, students will design, build, and extend modules from the Forge and learn best practices for implementing roles & profiles in their infrastructure. After completing this course, students will show a mastery of the Puppet language and problem solving techniques based on Puppet best practices.

Duration

3 days

Course Content

  • Advanced Puppet language constructs to write more elegant code
  • Using data structures to create resources programmatically
  • Using custom facts to expose information about nodes
  • Module design concepts and best practices
  • Methods for testing Puppet code and infrastructure
  • Understanding the difference between Puppet tasks and Puppet modules
  • Troubleshooting techniques and standard log files
  • The roles & profiles design pattern and benefits
  • Different methods for managing portions of files
  • Contributing modules to the community via the Puppet Forge
  • Sharing functionality between classes using inheritance

Prerequisites

In this course, we expect attendees to have a solid understanding of configuration management strategies. Students should have either taken Puppet Fundamentals or Getting Started with Puppet and have 6+ months of experience using Puppet.

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

Additional Notes

Find a Class or see the full class schedule below:

Upcoming Classes

United States

Location Dec 2018 Jan 2019 Feb 2019 Mar 2019 Apr 2019 May 2019 Jun 2019 Jul 2019 Aug 2019
Washington DC/Herndon - MicroTek Mar 5 – Mar 7
Portland - Puppet Office Classroom Apr 2 – Apr 4

United Kingdom

Location Dec 2018 Jan 2019 Feb 2019 Mar 2019 Apr 2019 May 2019 Jun 2019 Jul 2019 Aug 2019
London - Puppet Office Mar 19 – Mar 21

Belgium

Location Dec 2018 Jan 2019 Feb 2019 Mar 2019 Apr 2019 May 2019 Jun 2019 Jul 2019 Aug 2019
Nossegem - Open-Future Dec 18 – Dec 20

Singapore

Location Dec 2018 Jan 2019 Feb 2019 Mar 2019 Apr 2019 May 2019 Jun 2019 Jul 2019 Aug 2019
Singapore - MicroTek Mar 26 – Mar 28

Australia

Location Dec 2018 Jan 2019 Feb 2019 Mar 2019 Apr 2019 May 2019 Jun 2019 Jul 2019 Aug 2019
Sydney - Cliftons Apr 2 – Apr 4
Melbourne - Cliftons Feb 26 – Feb 28

Online

Instructor-led online training

Location Dec 2018 Jan 2019 Feb 2019 Mar 2019 Apr 2019 May 2019 Jun 2019 Jul 2019 Aug 2019
US East - Online Dec 18 – Dec 20
 Jan 29 – Jan 31
 Mar 26 – Mar 28
 Apr 30 – May 2
US West - Online Jan 15 – Jan 17
 Feb 19 – Feb 21
 Apr 23 – Apr 25
Europe GMT - Online Feb 19 – Feb 21
APAC - Online Feb 19 – Feb 21

Onsite Training

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Upcoming Classes

Herndon, VA

Portland, OR

London

Nossegem

Singapore

Sydney, NSW

Melbourne, VIC

US East - Online

US West - Online

Europe GMT - Online

APAC - Online

Classes marked with Full are full and no additional registrations are accepted. If you cannot find another class that suits your schedule, feel free to request a class and we will do our best to accomodate your needs.


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