Puppet tips and tricks

Becca Robinson

August 21, 2020 21:07
Updated

This is a growing list of tips and tricks that can help you on your Puppet journey. Click on any topic on the list below to get more information and linked references to current, relevant documentation.

How to get started with Puppet: A beginner's guide
Use a style guide to make it easier to update and maintain code
Write and test Puppet code and modules with the Puppet Development Kit (PDK)
Trusted and custom facts: What are they used for?
Prevent issues with Puppet environments
Ad hoc and imperative deployment workflows using Bolt tasks and plans
Office hours: What are they and why are they important?
Determining Puppet data structure and building your Hiera hierarchy
Write reusable component modules with intent and reusability
The roles and profiles pattern: What is it? How do I use it to manage my infrastructure and configuration more easily?
- The roles and profiles pattern: Start with a baseline profile
- The roles and profiles pattern: After you have a baseline profile, work on a role
Use relationships and ordering to control the execution order of your Puppet code
Starting a test process for module code
Deploying code: What the heck is a control-repo?

Deploying code: What is a Puppetfile?
Deploying code: Set up r10k and deploy code from your control repo

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