Puppet Practitioner

• This course requires students to have followed the Puppet Fundamentals 2 day course, or have the equivalent experience and be familiar with Puppet coding and usage.

Audience

• Developers
• System administrators
• DevOps engineers

Puppet Practitioner is an advanced course that builds on the Puppet Fundamentals, focusing on practical skills and techniques.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level to advanced-level developers and system administrators who wish to enhance their Puppet knowledge and expertise.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Master advanced Puppet concepts and techniques.
• Efficiently manage configurations using Puppet.
• Implement best practices for module development.
• Decouple configuration from code using Hiera.
• Write custom facts and functions to extend Puppet's functionality.
• Effectively manage relationships in Puppet.
• Handle artifacts such as files, snippets, templates, and blobs.
• Apply testing best practices for Puppet modules.
• Utilize Puppet Bolt for orchestration.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

- Puppet basics review

- Setting a Puppet development environment

- Using Hiera to decouple configuration from code

- Data structures in Puppet

- New language constructs 

- Managing relationships in Puppet

- Writing custom facts and functions

- Managing artifacts : files, snippets, templates, blobs

- Best practices of modules, roles and profiles implementation

- Puppet Testing best practices

- Orchestration with Puppet Bolt