A Guide to managing servers and automation About This Book * Breeze through Puppet’s key features and performance improvements to bring real advantage to your IT infrastructure *Discover Puppet best practices to help you avoid common mistakes and pitfalls *Examples to get to grips with Puppet and succeed with everyday IT automation Who This Book Is For Book is meant for an experience IT professional and a new Puppet user, this book will provide you with all you need to know to go from installation to advanced automation. Get a rapid introduction to the essential topics and learn how to build best practices for advanced automation including docker container management with Puppet. What You Will Learn * Understand declarative configuration management *Make use of a GIT based deployment workflow *Extend Factor with secure elements *Create modular and reusable Puppet code *Extend your code base with public available Puppet modules *Separate logic from data by using Hiera *Understand and develop Puppet Roles & Profiles *Know how to manage Docker via Puppet In Detail Puppet Essentials, Third Edition gets you started quickly with Puppet and it’s tools in the right way. It highlights the improvements of Puppet and provides solutions for upgrading. This edition also takes care on Puppet Docker integration. It starts with a quick introduction to Puppet to quickly get your IT automation platform in place. Book takes you to learn about the Puppet Agent and its installation and configuration along with Puppet Server and it’s scaling options. The book is having innovative structure and approach of Puppet will be explained with flexible use cases that empower you to even manage complex infrastructures easily. End of the book will take readers through Puppet and it’s companion tools like Facter, Hiera and R10k and how to make use of the tool chains.