The challenges of IT infrastructures and the need to automate common activities has become a major requirement in many large organizations. Puppet is one such configuration management tool that allows to efficiently manage and automate all your IT infrastructure.

This comprehensive 2-in-1 course teaches you the key skills of Puppet 5.0 to effectively manage and automate your IT infrastructure. You'll learn through quick step-by-step instructions, clear explanations, and interesting real-world examples. It will give you all you need to know to use this essential IT power tool while applying these solutions to real-world scenarios.

This training program includes 2 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.

The first course, Puppet 5 – The Complete Beginner’s Guide, gets you up-and-running with the very latest features of Puppet 5. From beginner to confident Puppet user with a series of clear, practical examples it will help you manage every aspect of your server setup. You will learn how to install packages and config files, create users, set up scheduled jobs, provision cloud instances, build containers, and more. Every example in this course deals with something real and practical that you're likely to need in your work, and you'll see the complete Puppet code that makes it happen, along with step-by-step instructions on what to type and what output you'll see.

The second course, Puppet 5 – From Beginner to Pro, starts off with explaining how to manage data with Hiera.  You will then install ready-to-use modules from the Puppet Forge using the r10k tool. You will also learn some of the best ways to organize your Puppet code using roles and profiles. Next, you will learn to build complex configuration files with dynamic data using Puppet's EPP template mechanism. You will learn some new support features of Puppet 5 for deployment on Docker containers. Finally, you will learn how to use Puppet to provision cloud servers on AWS.

By the end of this Learning Path, you will have a greater understanding of puppet 5.0 and how to use all it's different parts to give you a powerful configuration management tool.

Meet Your Expert(s):

We have the best work of the following esteemed author(s) to ensure that your learning journey is smooth:

• John Arundel is a DevOps consultant, which means he helps people build world-class web operations teams and infrastructures and has fun doing it. He was formerly a senior operations engineer at global telco Verizon, designing resilient, high-performance infrastructures for major corporations such as Ford, McDonald's, and Bank of America. He is now an independent consultant, working closely with selected clients to deliver web-scale performance and enterprise-grade resilience on a startup budget. He likes writing books, especially about Puppet (Puppet 2.7 Cookbook and Puppet 3 Cookbook are available from Packt). He also provides training and coaching on Puppet and DevOps, which, it turns out, is far harder than simply doing the work himself. Off the clock, he is a medal-winning, competitive rifle and pistol shooter and a decidedly uncompetitive piano player. He lives in a small cottage in Cornwall, England and believes, like Cicero, that, if you have a garden and a library, then you have everything you need.