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Get started learning Puppet: concepts, successful implementation, Puppet code, version control, modules, Hiera, roles and profiles

Patrick Grant
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Learn how to use Puppet Enterprise to automate your infrastructure. Review the list of resources in this order.

  1. Learning videos
  2. Puppet code
  3. Version control
  4. Forge modules
  5. Hiera
  6. Roles and profiles
  7. Additional resources

Version and installation

PE Version: All supported versions

Solution

1. Learning videos

Watch these videos to learn concepts, patterns, and practices that will help you succeed in automating your infrastructure.

2. Puppet code

Download the Learning VM and work through each quest. Each quest takes an hour or two to complete. You will learn how to:

  • Automate with Puppet.
  • Install an agent on a new system
  • Use the Puppet resource tool to explore the state of that system.

Take the Puppet practice labs. You’ll learn how to use Puppet products right in the browser — no downloads required.

3. Version control

Version control is critical when managing your Puppet code and collaborating with others. Use it to track your changes.

Learn Git with our list of Git learning materials.

4. Forge modules

The Forge has thousands of reusable modules created by Puppet, our partners, and our community. The most commonly used modules manage NTP and Windows services. Except for puppet-windows_env, the following modules are Puppet supported.

NTP

puppetlabs-ntp

Windows

Learn more about using Windows modules from our documentation.

5. Hiera

Learn how to manage the data that you provide to your modules using Hiera.

6. Roles and profiles

Build and assign reusable modules to node groups using the roles and profiles method. This example demonstrates a complete workflow.

7. Additional resources

You can learn:

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