Overview
This course includes case studies involving Red Hat products using Puppet: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Satellite. The course covers key puppet concepts, including language constructs, modules, classes and resources. This course also covers the deployment of Puppet server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the deployment of Puppet as a client.
This course is on Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 7 and Red Hat Satellite 6.
What You'll Learn
- Compose Puppet manifests using a variety of Puppet DSL resources
- Author Puppet modules for deployment and configuration of network services
- Implement Puppet master and client nodes
- Use Red Hat Satellite 6 to manage system configuration using Puppet
- Implement Puppet in an operations or cloud computing environment
Curriculum
Introduction to the course
Identify system administration functions in Puppet code
Describe the Puppet architecture and describe a state model
Build, validate, and deploy a Puppet manifest
Find documentation and diagnose errors in Puppet manifests
Implement Git to manage software
View information about systems using Facter
Create Puppet modules and implement classes in a manifest
Implement namespaces, relationships, and dependencies in a Puppet module
Implement variables and conditionals in a Puppet module
Identify advanced system administration functions in Puppet code
Deploy and configure a Puppet master and a Puppet client
Implement Puppet modules from Puppet Forge
Implement Puppet in a DevOps environment
Implement Puppet in a Red Hat Satellite 6 environment
Who should attend
This course is designed for professionals responsible for the management of systems and cloud client systems on either Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform or Red Hat Satellite. This course is highly recommended for:
- System administrators
- Cloud administrators
- DevOps engineers
- Linux administrators
- OpenStack administrators
- Software engineers
Prerequisites
To attend this course, participants must have a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) certification or have equivalent experience.
