[Pluralsight.com / Ben Piper] Puppet Fundamentals for System Administrators [2015, ENG]

Introduction to Puppet
Why Puppet?
Course Introduction
Puppet Concepts
Lab Scenario
Summary

Installing and Configuring the Puppet Master
Module Introduction
Lab Setup
Downloading VirtualBox and Vagrant
Downloading the CentOS and Ubuntu Boxes
Booting the Puppet Master Server
Installing the Puppet Master
Setting up Directory Environments
Puppet Master Security: Dealing with SELinux
Puppet Master Security: Generating Certificates
Puppet Master Security: Configuring the IPTables Firewalls
Installing Apache and Passenger
Summary

Installing and Configuring the Puppet Agent
Module Introduction
Lab Setup
Adding the Ubuntu Box to Vagrant
Booting the wiki and wikitest Servers
Adding the Puppet Master to the Hosts File
Installing the Puppet Agent on CentOS
Installing the Puppet Agent on Ubuntu
Signing Agent Certificates
Summary

Creating Manifests
Module Introduction
Adding Syntax Highlighting to Nano
Node Definitions
Managing Files
The Client Filebucket
Managing Packages
Managing Services
Selectors
Classes
Variables
Summary

Creating and Using Modules
Module Introduction
The Puppet Forge
Creating Modules
Module Structure
Customizing Modules
Conditionals
Downloading from the Puppet Forge
The Apache Module
The vcsrepo Module
Resource Ordering
The MySQL Module
The Firewall Module
Summary

Creating File Templates
Module Introduction
Creating File Templates
Using Templates in Modules
Summary

Configuring Hiera
Module Introduction
Using Hiera Data in Modules
Creating YAML Data Sources
Assigning Classes with Hiera
Enabling Hiera
Summary

Windows Configuration Management
Module Introduction
Lab Setup
Installing and Configuring the Puppet Agent
Generating Agent Certificates
Roles and Profiles
Managing Files and Packages
Managing Services
Summary

Version Control
Module Introduction
Automating the Puppet Agent
Creating a Git Repository
Recovering from Committed Mistakes
Recovering from Uncommitted Mistakes
Summary
Course Summary