Puppet training course takes students from the pains of approach to configuration management to being able to take advantage of Puppet to build, configure, maintain, and automate a network of scalable, secure, and high performance systems. Not only will the students learn about the basic building blocks behind Puppet, its declarative manifests, and powerful DSL, but they will also get to see Puppet in practice and get to experience it in real-life scenarios.

Objective :

After taking this course, students will be able to:

• Explain the role of Puppet and its exclusive feature-set
• Deploy Puppet in a reliable, performant, and scalable manner
• Automate system tasks, such as provisioning, deployment, and change management
• Utilize Foreman and MCollective when managing large networks with Puppet
• Take advantage of Puppet's reporting functionality
• Troubleshoot common problems
• Spin up new systems rapidly based on pre-configured templates
• Recognize how to deploy Puppet in both staging and production (cloud-based) environments

Audience :

This course is intended for systems administrators, implementers, and systems integrators.

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