Working with Puppet Agent and Puppet Apply

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level

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Overview/Description
Since the demand for IT personnel having an in-depth knowledge of Puppet is exploding, knowing the advanced features of Puppet is an essential requirement for skilled developers and operations managers. In this course, you will learn the intermediate and advanced operations of Puppet as well as Puppet administration. This course will also demonstrate the unique interaction between Puppet Server, Puppet Master, Puppet Agent, and Puppet Apply.

Target Audience
This path is targeted toward technical managers, operations staff, application developers, network administrators, system administrators, and anyone interested in learning the advanced features of Puppet. A prior knowledge of Puppet is essential.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
2.3

Lesson Objectives

Working with Puppet Agent and Puppet Apply

start the course

distinguish between the roles of Puppet Server, Puppet Master, Puppet Agent, and Puppet Apply

summarize the role of the Puppet Server and describe its relationship with Puppet Master

install Puppet Server

set up initial certificate and domain name for a Puppet Server installation

review the configuration steps and describe the contents of each major configuration file

recall the role of Ruby, and install and remove Ruby gems

describe the types of variables used within Puppet

apply control branching statements of Puppet

write and call built-in and custom functions

write Puppet code to apply specific configurations to specific nodes

use Puppet code to access facts

describe how Puppet scales as the number of nodes grow

describe the certificate signing process between Puppet Master and Puppet Agent in detail

describe how the Puppet Agent executes its main manifest

describe the communication between Puppet Master and Puppet Agent in detail

list the start options for Puppet Agent and describe their functionality

use the commandline to start Puppet Agent and interpret commandline messages

execute Puppet Agent as a service

execute Puppet Agent on Linux machines as a scheduled cron job

describe how Puppet Agent performs logging, and identify logging configuration issues

describe the functionality of Puppet Apply and its features

describe Puppet Apply's run environment and execute the main manifest

describe how Puppet Apply communicates over the network and uses local collections of modules

discuss how Puppet Apply handles logging and report handling

execute the Puppet resource command to set up a Puppet Apply cron job

create a cron job that will execute a Puppet Agent

Course Number:
os_puad_a01_it_enus

Expertise Level
Intermediate