Supporting files for the Manageable Puppet Infrastructure course on Udemy

Intro

Presentation intro: https://my.visme.co/projects/dmv33067-puppet-mpi-course

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Prerequisites

• Intermediate Puppet knowledge
• 2 VMs with internet connection
  • Puppet Master
    • 4G memory, 8G if Puppet Enterprise
    • at least 2 cores, preferably 4.
  • Git server

Links

Getting started

CentOS 7 image download: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/virtualboxes.org/CentOS7-base.ova.torrent (root/reverse) Alternative: https://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualappliances/files/Linux/CentOS/CentOS-7.0-amd64-minimal.ova/download (root/toor)

Choices

• Puppet Enterprise
• Satellite server
• Foreman
• Katello
• Lean and mean with some dashboard

Installing Lean and Mean

• Puppet yum repositories

Initial modules

• https://forge.puppet.com/camptocamp/puppetserver
• https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/puppetdb

Install GitLab

https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/#centos7

Other pages

• R10k
• Git-flow
• Why code review?
• Workflows
• Node classification
• Webconsole notes