Pro Puppet is an in-depth guide to installing, using, and developing the popular configuration management tool Puppet. The book is a comprehensive follow-up to the previous title Pulling Strings with Puppet. Puppet provides a way to automate everything from user management to server configuration. You'll learn how to create Puppet recipes, extend Puppet, and use Facter to gather configuration data from your servers. Puppet is a must-have tool for system administrators, and Pro Puppet will teach you how to maximize its capabilities and customize it for your environment. * Install and configure Puppet to immediately start automating tasks and create reporting solutions * Learn insider tricks and techniques to better manage your infrastructure * Become a Puppet expert! What you'll learn * See how to install Puppet on a variety of platforms * Learn how to manage infrastructure with Puppet * Discover how to scale Puppet to suit small, medium, and large organizations * Learn how to integrate Puppet with other tools such as Cucumber and Nagios * Discover advanced Puppet techniques to make managing your environment easier * Learn how to develop and extend Puppet to suit your environment Who this book is for Systems administrators, implementers and systems integrators. Table of Contents * Getting Started with Puppet * Building Hosts with Puppet * Working with Environments * Puppet Scalability * Externalizing Puppet Configuration * Exporting and Storing Configuration * Puppet Consoles: Dashboard and The Foreman *Tools and Integration * Reporting with Puppet * Extending Facter and Puppet * Marionette Collective * Working with Puppet

作者簡介：

James Turnbull 開源擁躉，Linux Australia前任主席，經常在OSCON、Open Source Bridge、

DevOpsDays等大會上發言。現任職於Puppet Labs。目前已有5本著作，均涉及開源軟件。James

是澳大利亞人，目前居住在美國奧勒岡州的波特蘭。他的興趣愛好十分廣泛，包括烹飪、品酒、

政治理論、新聞攝影以及哲學，最近還加入瞭波特蘭Timbers協會足球隊。

Jeffrey McCune Puppet社區成員，開源軟件的支持者，經常在蘋果的世界開發者大會、Macworld、Open Source Bridge、Velocity等大會上發言。現任職於Puppet Labs，緻力於編寫代碼和幫助客戶改進他們的Puppet部署。Jeff目前居住在奧勒岡州的波特蘭，喜愛鑽研微控製器、動畫、攝影、音樂，愛好徒步旅行以及沙灘長途步行。

譯者簡介：

高永超 專職SA，喜歡鑽研架構和運維相關知識，有兩年Puppet使用經驗，現任豆瓣運維工

程師。網絡ID為flex，郵箱flex@flib.me。