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Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuring Management Made Easy View Larger Image | James Turnbull
Apress, Paperback, Published February 2008, 192 pages, ISBN 1590599780 | List Price: $19.99
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Competent system administrators know their success hinges upon being able to
perform often tedious tasks with rigor and punctuality. Such metrics are often
achieved only by instituting a considerable degree of automation, something
that has become even more crucial as IT environments continue to scale both
in terms of size and complexity. One of the most powerful system administration
tools to be released is Puppet, a solution capable of automating nearly every
aspect of a system administrator’s job, from user management, to software
installation, to even configuring server services such as FTP and LDAP.
Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy is the first
book to introduce the powerful Puppet system administration tool. Author James
Turnbull will guide you through Puppet’s key features, showing you how
to install and configure the software, create automated Puppet tasks, known
as recipes, and even create reporting solutions and extend Puppet further to
your own needs. A bonus chapter is included covering the Facter library, which
makes it a breeze to automate the retrieval of server configuration details
such as IP and MAC addresses.
What you’ll learn
• Properly install and configure Puppet in order to begin immediately maximizing
its capabilities.
• Create reporting solutions to more easily monitor automated outcomes.
• Extend Puppet to perform tasks that are capable of suiting your organization’s
specific needs.
• Use Facter to query server operating systems for key data such as IP addresses,
server names, and MAC
About the Author
James Turnbull works for the National Australia Bank as a security architect.
He is the author of Hardening Linux, which focuses on hardening the Linux host,
and Pro Nagios 2.0, which focuses on enterprise management using the Nagios
open source tool.
James has previously worked as an executive manager for IT security at the
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the CIO of a medical research foundation, manager
of the architecture group of an outsourcing company, and in a number of IT roles
in gaming, telecommunications, and government. He is an experienced infrastructure
architect with a background in Linux/Unix, AS/400, Windows, and storage systems.
He has been involved in security consulting, infrastructure security design,
SLA, and service definition, and has an abiding interest in security metrics
and measurement.
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