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Puppet Essentials
Get up and running quickly using the power of
Puppet to manage your IT infrastructure
Felix Frank
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
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Puppet Essentials
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Credits
Author Project Coordinator
Felix Frank Rashi Khivansara
Reviewers Proofreaders
Ger Apeldoorn Simran Bhogal
Thomas Dao Maria Gould
Brian Moore Ameesha Green
Josh Partlow Paul Hindle
Commissioning Editor Indexers
Edward Gordon Mariammal Chettiyar
Tejal Soni
Acquisition Editor
Sam Wood
Graphics
Ronak Dhruv
Content Development Editor
Sweny M. Sukumaran
Production Coordinator
Manu Joseph
Technical Editor
Mrunal M. Chavan
Cover Work
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Copy Editors
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About the Author
Felix Frank has used and programmed computers for most of his life. During and
after his Computer Science diploma, he gained on-the-job experience as a system
administrator, server operator, and open source software developer. Of his 10-year
career, he spent 5 years as a Puppet power user. For almost a year, he intensified his
learning by contributing source code and actively participating in several conferences.
This is his first foray into writing books and is a work of great effort and sacrifice.
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Acknowledgments
I'd like to thank my editors, Sam Wood, Sweny M. Sukumaran, and Mrunal M.
Chavan, for their ongoing support and for making this title possible in the first
place. This book would not be what it is without the amazing feedback from my
reviewers, Ger Apeldoorn, Brian Moore, Josh Partlow, and Thomas Dao.
I'd also like to thank a number of Puppet Labs employees for their kind feedback
and ongoing support—Andrew Parker, Adrien Thebo, Dawn Foster, Joshua Partlow,
Josh Cooper, Henrik Lindberg, Charlie Sharpsteen, Kylo Ginsberg, Ethan Brown,
Rob Reynolds, Jeff McCune, and Eric Sorenson. Special thanks to Luke Kanies for
creating Puppet and dedicating so many resources to this amazing community.
Further thanks to Waltraut Niepraschk and the entire data center staff at DESY
Zeuthen for getting me on track with the central management of Unix servers.
Also, thanks to MPeXnetworks for giving me the opportunity to learn more
about Puppet and ultimately helping me write this very book.
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About the Reviewers
Ger Apeldoorn is a freelance Puppet consultant and teaches official Puppet Labs
courses in the Netherlands. He has helped implement Puppet in many companies,
both open source and Enterprise, and has given a presentation on Manageable Puppet
Infrastructure at PuppetConf and other conferences. He recently found out that writing
about himself in third person can be a bit awkward.
Thomas Dao has spent over two decades playing around with various Unix flavors
as a Unix administrator, build and release engineer, and configuration manager.
He is passionate about open source software and tools, so Puppet was something
he naturally gravitated toward. Currently employed in the telecommunications
industry as a configuration analyst, he also divides some of his time as a technical
editor at devops.ninja.
I would like to thank my lovely wife, whose patience with me
while I'm glued to my monitor gives me the inspiration to pursue
my passions, and my dog, Bento, who is always by my side, giving
me company.
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Brian Moore is a senior product engineer, a father of two, and a quintessential
hacker. He began coding at the age of 12. His early love for everything technological
led to a job with Apple shortly after high school. Since that time, he has worked with
a series of start-ups and tech companies, taking on interesting technical challenges.
He was also the technical reviewer for Rhomobile Beginner's Guide, Packt Publishing.
When not working on new development projects, he can often be found off-roading
in a remote Southern California desert in his Baja Bug.
Josh Partlow is a software developer working in Portland, OR. He started working
as a freelance consultant in the early 90s and has worked on a variety of database,
web, and networking projects in Java, Perl, and Ruby, developing primarily on Linux
platforms. He helped found OpenSourcery and currently works at Puppet Labs on
the core Puppet project itself. He lives in Portland with his wife, Julia, and their two
cats, Fred and Ethel, who are mostly nothing like their namesakes.
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