Provides instructions for making and using instant puppets, rainy day puppets, professional puppets, special puppets, and novelty puppets.

Puppet is great for developers, system administrators, IT professionals, and anyone laying the foundation for DevOps practices - this comprehensive guide will get you up to speed, all the way from installation to automation to the latest features of Puppet 4.10.About This Book* Develop skills to run Puppet 4.10 on single or multiple servers without hiccups* Use Puppet to spin up and manage cloud resources such as Amazon EC2 instances* Take full advantage of the powerful new features of Puppet 4.10, including loops, data types, structured facts, R10K module management, control repos, and EPP templatesWho This Book Is ForPuppet Beginner's Guide, Second Edition is designed for those who are new to Puppet, including system administrators and developers who are looking to manage computer server systems for configuration management. No prior programming or system administration experience is assumed.What You Will Learn* Covers the latest Puppet 4.10 release* Install and set up Puppet and discover the latest and most advanced features* Configure, build, and run containers in production using Puppet's industry-leading Docker support* Deploy configuration files and templates at super-fast speeds and manage user accounts and access control* Automate your IT infrastructure* Use the latest features in Puppet 4 onward and its official modules* Manage clouds, containers, and orchestration* Get to know the best practices to make Puppet more reliable and increase its performanceIn DetailPuppet 4.10 Beginner's Guide, Second Edition, gets you up and running with the very latest features of Puppet 4.10, including Docker containers, Hiera data, and Amazon AWS cloud orchestration. Go from beginner to confident Puppet user with a series of clear, practical examples to help you manage every aspect of your server setup.Whether you're a developer, a system administrator, or you are simply curious about Puppet, you'll learn Puppet skills that you can put into practice right away. With practical steps giving you the key concepts you need, this book teaches you how to install packages and config files, create users, set up scheduled jobs, provision cloud instances, build containers, and so much more.Every example in this book deals with something real and practical that you're likely to need in your work, and you'll see the complete Puppet code that makes it happen, along with step-by-step instructions for what to type and what output you'll see. All the examples are available in a GitHub repo for you to download and adapt for your own server setup.Style and approachThis tutorial is packed with quick step-by-step instructions that are immediately applicable for beginners. This is an easy-to-read guide, to learn Puppet from scratch, that explains simply and clearly all you need to know to use this essential IT power tool, while applying these solutions to real-world scenarios.

Presented in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step tutorial format, Puppet 3.0 Beginner's Guide will lead you through the basics of setting up your Puppet server with plenty of screenshots and real-world solutions.This book is written for system administrators and developers, and anyone else who needs to manage computer systems. You will need to be able to edit text files and run a few commands on the command line, but otherwise no system administration or programming experience is required.

Karen Davies has been writing and performing glove puppet shows for years, and has developed a range of characters. In this short guide to puppetry skills she will show you how to make your own performances better with some very simple, yet subtle techniques. Photographed to show you correct hand and body positions, this guide is an invaluable addition to any puppet performer's kit bag. Also includes a brief but fascinating glimpse of the heritage and history of puppetry in the UK. Look out for Karen's script books - each containing 5 themed scripts for puppet shows.

Terraform has become a key player in the DevOps world for defining, launching, and managing infrastructure as code (IaC) across a variety of cloud and virtualization platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and more. This hands-on second edition, expanded and thoroughly updated for Terraform version 0.12 and beyond, shows you the fastest way to get up and running. Gruntwork cofounder Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman walks you through code examples that demonstrate Terraform’s simple, declarative programming language for deploying and managing infrastructure with a few commands. Veteran sysadmins, DevOps engineers, and novice developers will quickly go from Terraform basics to running a full stack that can support a massive amount of traffic and a large team of developers. Explore changes from Terraform 0.9 through 0.12, including backends, workspaces, and first-class expressions Learn how to write production-grade Terraform modules Dive into manual and automated testing for Terraform code Compare Terraform to Chef, Puppet, Ansible, CloudFormation, and Salt Stack Deploy server clusters, load balancers, and databases Use Terraform to manage the state of your infrastructure Create reusable infrastructure with Terraform modules Use advanced Terraform syntax to achieve zero-downtime deployment