Configuration Management with Puppet

Audience for this course

• System administrators and cloud administrators responsible for the management of systems and cloud client systems on either Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform or Red Hat Satellite

Prerequisites for this course

• Have received an Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE^®) certification or have equivalent experience

Outline for this course

• Course introduction
  • Introduction to the course.
• Identify system administration functions in Puppet
  • Identify system administration functions in Puppet code.
• Puppet architecture
  • Describe the Puppet architecture and describe a state model.
• Implement a Puppet manifest
  • Build, validate, and deploy a Puppet manifest.
• Troubleshoot Puppet manifests
  • Find documentation and diagnose errors in Puppet manifests.
• Implement Git
  • Implement Git to manage software.
• Find information with Facter
  • View information about systems using Facter.
• Implement Puppet modules
  • Create Puppet modules and implement classes in a manifest.
• Implement relationships in a Puppet module
  • Implement namespaces, relationships, and dependencies in a Puppet module.
• Implement variables and conditionals in a Puppet module
  • Implement variables and conditionals in a Puppet module.
• Identify advanced system administration functions in Puppet
  • Identify advanced system administration functions in Puppet code.
• Implement Puppet
  • Deploy and configure a Puppet master and a Puppet client.
• Implement external Puppet modules
  • Implement Puppet modules from Puppet Forge.
• Implement Puppet in a DevOps environment
  • Implement Puppet in a DevOps environment.
• Implement Puppet in Red Hat Satellite 6
  • Implement Puppet in a Red Hat Satellite 6 environment.