Very high level introduction to puppet and supporting technologies
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Day 1
- Introduction to vagrant and virtual machines
- High level look at puppet and some of its main features
- Examples of factor and how it is used
- Examples of hiera and how it is used
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Day 2
- Examples of storing secure values with hiera
- Use of librarian puppet and 'the forge'
- How defined resources work
- Discussion around resource collectors and what they are
- Basic syntax/semantic checks
- TDD with Rspec Puppet
- Building/Packaging puppet code