Open Source Puppet
Introductory materials: Puppet and its ecosystem
Best practices
- Puppet tips and tricks📍
- Deploying code: Set up r10k and deploy code from your control repo📍
- Deploying code: What is a Puppetfile?📍
- Deploying code: What the heck is a control repo?📍
- Determining Puppet data structure📍
- Extending Puppet 📍
Module development tools
- Demo: Litmus Terraform 📹 📍
- Demo: Gem Testing 📹 📍
- Fix an “ERROR -> Unable to connect to https://forgeapi.puppetlabs.com” when authenticating with the Forge in Puppet
- Demo: Failure analysis with Honeycomb 📹 📍
- Litmus: A new module acceptance testing tool
- Puppet developer tools: Litmus and PDK 📹
Performance tuning
- Tools to help you interpret Puppet infrastructure metrics 📍
- Identify and fix performance issues caused by frequent garbage collection in Puppet 📍
- Demo: Performance analysis with Honeycomb 📹 📍
- Determine a thundering herd condition in Puppet 📍
- Diagnose, stop, and prevent a thundering herd for Puppet📍
- Mitigating a thundering herd: Run Puppet out of Cron 📍
Puppet agent
- Use Bolt to install Puppet agent on different platforms at the same time📍
- Agent run fails after enabling package data collection (“package_inventory_d”) in Puppet 4.0 and later 📍
- Agent side functions
- Ensure that fact-based classification and automation work as expected by uploading facts to the master in Puppet 6.5 to 6.10.1📍
- Identifying nodes where the Puppet daemon is enabled or disabled📍
- Increase the log level to debug on Windows and *nix agent nodes in Puppet📍
Bolt™ and its integrations
- Learn how to use Bolt 📹
- Ad hoc and imperative deployment workflows using Bolt tasks and plans📍
- Automating Puppet at scale with Bolt and the node_manager module
- Demo: Bolt projects 📹 📍
- Demo: Features introduced in Bolt 2.0 📹 📍
- Deploy packages across your Windows estate with Bolt and Chocolatey
Puppet Community and other resources
- 2019 State of DevOps Report: Improve your security posture
- Catch up with the official Puppetize PDX recap
- Get started with the Puppet Learning VM
- How can I join and get help from the Puppet community?
- Links to Puppet Community information
- Office hours: What are they and why are they important?📍
PuppetDB
Puppet Server
- Common Hiera formatting and syntax errors in Puppet 📍
- Change the log level for Puppet services in Puppet 4.0 and later 📍
- Configure gemrc to specify a local gem repository for Puppet📍
- Enable garbage collection logging for services in Puppet📍
- Links to Puppet Server information
- Puppet Server: advanced memory debugging
Puppet services
Security and certificates
- Add certificates to the Puppet certificate bundle for Puppet 5.0 and later📍
- Clean certificates in Puppet 5.0 and 6.0 using a task 📍
- Create a trusted fact, verify it, and then reference it in Hiera in Puppet 📍
- Enable SSL encrypted communication between PuppetDB and PostgreSQL in Puppet 5.0 and later📍
- Extend the expiry date of your CA certificate in Puppet 5.0 and later📍
- Learn more about security and bug fixes for Puppet products