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• Publications Puppenspiel_ ------------------------------------------------------- :By: Gunnar Wrobel_ :On: German Linux Magazine_ :Date: September 2008 "Puppet promises to represent the next generation of configuration management tools It provides its own language to express configuration independent of the operating system used." .. _Puppenspiel: http://www.linux-magazin.de/heft_abo/ausgaben/2008/10/puppenspiel .. _Gunnar Wrobel: http://aufkante.de .. _German Linux Magazine: http://www.linux-magazin.de/ Luke Kanies Wants to Modernize System Administration_ ------------------------------------------------------- :By: chromatic :On: O'Reilly :Date: August 2008 "Luke Kanies spent some time as a system administrator. That job can have its own tedium -- keeping machines up to date, building new machines, and managing dozens to thousands of individual configurations. Clever administrators automate." .. _Luke Kanies Wants to Modernize System Administration: http://news.oreilly.com/2008/08/luke-kanies-wants-to-modernize.html Puppet can ease system administration tasks across the network_ ----------------------------------------------------------------- :By: Ben Martin :On: Linux.com :Date: August 2008 "The Puppet project allows you to issue system administration commands to one or more machines, and will smooth over the differences between distributions for you. For example, if you want to install MySQL, that action should be your primary aim, and you shouldn't have to worry about if the machine is running Maemo, Ubuntu, or Fedora." .. _Puppet can ease system administration tasks across the network: http://www.linux.com/feature/143893 Master of Puppets_ -------------------- :By: Larry Ludwig :On: Empowering Media's blog :Date: June 2008 "No this post isn’t about the Metallica album, it’s about the provisioning system we use named Puppet. It allows us to automate many of the system administration tasks, to a level that was previously very costly or hard to do." .. _Master of Puppets: http://www.empoweringmedia.com/blog/master-of-puppets Puppet at Google_ ------------------- :By: Michael Cote, Redmonk :On: People Over Process :Date: June 2008 "I recently talked with Reductive Lab’s Luke Kaines and Google’s Nigel Kersten on the topic of Puppet. First, we go through a quick overview of what Puppet does - establishing the desired configuration of machines by modeling services and then enforcing that model." .. _Puppet at Google: http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/06/11/puppet-at-google-redmonk-radio-episode-48/ The Craft: Automation and Scaling Infrastructure_ --------------------------------------------------- :By: Andrew Shafer :On: GigaOM :Date: June 2008 "Until the late 18th century, craftsmen were a primary source of production. With specialized skills, a craftsman’s economic contribution was a function of personal quantity and quality, and a skilled artisan often found it undesirable, if not impossible, to duplicate previous work with accuracy. Plus, there is a limit to how much a skilled craftsman can do in one day. Scaling up the quantity of crafted goods to meet increased demand was a question of working more or adding more bodies — both of which potentially sacrificed quality and consistency." .. _The Craft: Automation and Scaling Infrastructure: http://refresh.gigaom.com/2008/06/12/the-craft-automation-and-scaling-infrastructure/ Cloudy Saturday: Puppet, for Automating Virtual Machines_ ----------------------------------------------------------- :By: Aaron Huslage :On: OSTATIC :Date: June 2008 "This is the first of our weekly "Cloudy Saturday" columns that will delve into using cloud computing techniques to manage your own server farms, both large and small. This week we'll talk about the Puppet automation system from Reductive Labs. Puppet is built upon the legacy of the venerable Cfengine system, but takes things to a whole new level." .. _Cloudy Saturday: Puppet, for Automating Virtual Machines: http://ostatic.com/164363-blog/cloudy-saturday-puppet-for-automating-virtual-machines Expert Q&A: Simplifying configuration management with Puppet_ ------------------------------------------------------------------- :By: James Turnbull_ and Caroline Hunter :On: Tech Target? :Date: April 2008 "Systems administrators have to live with the fact that "configuration management is hard," says James Turnbull, author of the new book Pulling Strings with Puppet. When this task is done, it is often done ad hoc; administrators resort to using a "for" loop and SSH scripts. They may also go with a commercial offering, but this option brings its own challenges. Commercial products are often monolithic and hard to use, configure, learn and manage. In his book and in this interview, Turnbull describes how to use Puppet and the broader principles of configuration management, particularly when managing multiple systems." .. _Expert Q&A: Simplifying configuration management with Puppet: http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1311788,00.html Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy_ ------------------------------------------------------------------- :By: James Turnbull_ :On: Apress_ :Date: February 2008 Pulling Strings with Puppet_ is the first book on Puppet. The book guides you through Puppet’s key features, showing you how to install and configure, create recipes, handle reporting and introduce you to extending Puppet and Facter. You can find more information about the book here_. .. _more information about the book here: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetBooks .. _Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780?ie (articles, book, books, documentation)
• PuppetBookErrata Please post errata for "Pulling Strings with Puppet - System Administration Made Easy" by James Turnbull. Please post errata by chapter with page references. Errata should also be submitted at the Apress site_. General Notes ------------- *Where you see a ~CCC - this is a code continuation character that means the line is broken and continued on the next line.* Should all be fixed 23/2. Cover Page ---------- *The front cover states 192 pages, but there are only 169.* - This is a print versus PDF issue. They are different page counts. Chapter 1 --------- Chapter 2 --------- *Page 17, David Lutterkort, not David Lutter.* Fixed 23/2 - apologies David. *Page 25, After this paragraph* "Puppet detects if you have any nodes defined. If you don’t have any defined, as we have here, Puppet turns off node designation. With node designation turned off, all configuration resources (excluding configuration in classes and definitions, which we’ll talk about in Chapter 3) defined will be applied to all nodes that connect to the master. As we don’t have any nodes, nor any substantive configuration, it’s easiest to turn off nodes until we’re ready to define our first node. We’ll look at node definition in Chapter 3." There should be this note: NOTE In versions older than 0.24.x you will also need to add the --nonodes option to disable node definition. This option is deprecated in 0.24 and later. *Page 25, After this paragraph* "This time we’ve started puppetmasterd with the --verbose and --no-daemonize options. The --verbose option turns on verbose logging, and the --no-daemonize option forces the master daemon to run in the foreground. This mode is ideal for troubleshooting your master daemon." There should be this note: NOTE The --no-daemonize option was introduced in version 0.24 of Puppet. Prior to this the --verbose option alone causes the puppetmasterd not to daemonize. Chapter 3 --------- *Page 59, Listing 3-11, Conditional Selectors, "name" in the selector should be "$name" as used in later examples.* - Example is correct. *Page 60, Listing 3-13, Case Statements, each conditional statement is missing a closing brace.* Fixed 23/2 *Page 61, Example Case statement , "true" (book, errata, james, pulling, puppet, strings, turnbull)
• PuppetBooks Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy_ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Competent system administrators know their success hinges upon being able to perform often tedious tasks with rigor and punctuality. Such metrics are often achieved only by instituting a considerable degree of automation, something that has become even more crucial as IT environments continue to scale both in terms of size and complexity. One of the most powerful system administration tools to be released is Puppet, a solution capable of automating nearly every aspect of a system administrator’s job, from user management, to software installation, to even configuring server services such as FTP and LDAP. Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy_ is the first book to introduce the powerful Puppet system administration tool. Author James Turnbull will guide you through Puppet’s key features, showing you how to install and configure the software, create automated Puppet tasks, known as recipes, and even create reporting solutions and extend Puppet further to your own needs. A bonus chapter is included covering the Facter library, which makes it a breeze to automate the retrieval of server configuration details such as IP and MAC addresses. What you’ll learn +++++++++++++++++ * Properly install and configure Puppet in order to begin immediately maximizing its capabilities. * Create reporting solutions to more easily monitor automated outcomes. * Extend Puppet to perform tasks that are capable of suiting your organization’s specific needs. * Use Facter to query server operating systems for key data such as IP addresses, server names, and MAC addresses. .. _Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780?ie (book, books, publication, puppet)