Getting Started with Puppet (Coursera)

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Getting Started with Puppet (Coursera)

The “Getting Started with Puppet” course is designed to help you gain knowledge of Puppet. You will learn Puppet overview with architecture and how to design, build PuppetDB, and also learn Puppet enterprise installation. Puppet is a software configuration management tool that includes its own declarative language to describe system configuration. It is a model-driven solution that requires limited programming knowledge to use. Puppet was created by Puppet Inc. founded by Luke Kanies in 2005.

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This course contains 4+ hours of training videos. Learners could find 40+ lectures in the training course with comprehensive coverage of “Getting Started with Puppet” topics. These lectures are divided into 3 Modules and each module is further split into lessons. The entire course includes Assessments to validate knowledge checks of learners. Also, a set of Graded Questions is available at the end of every module.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Understand the basic concepts of Puppet.
  • Overview of Configuration Management and Puppet Architecture
  • Installation of Puppet Puppet Enterprise & Puppet Open Source installation.
  • Explore the concepts of Puppet Manifests and Modules

To be successful in this course, you should have a background in Development with strong knowledge of DevOps and Puppet tools.
This course is for those who have advanced DevOps skills with Puppet. In addition, you can also, explore many other opportunities in various job roles such as IT/Database developers and Big data professionals.

What You Will Learn

  • Understand the basic concepts of Puppet.
  • Overview of Configuration Management and Puppet Architecture
  • Installation of Puppet Enterprise & Puppet Open Source installation
  • Explore the concepts of Puppet Manifests and Modules

Syllabus

WEEK 1
Puppet Overview, Architecture and Installation
Welcome to the Getting Started with Puppet Course. By enrolling in this course, you are taking the first step to kickstart your career in Puppet. In the first week of the course, we'll learn the Course Introduction and basics of Puppet, then you learn Architecurre and Puppet Installation processes. This course will help learners to describe the fundamentals of the Puppet. By the end of this course, you'll be able to learn Puppet Overview, Puppet Architecture, Puppet Enterprice and Open-source Installation.

WEEK 2
Puppet Code: Manifests and Modules
In the second week of this course, we'll learn the concepts of Puppet Manifests, Modules. We'll learn how to design and implement Puppet Apache Module Class. By end of the course, we'll able to learn Puppet Code: Puppet Manifests and Puppet Modules.

WEEK 3
Organizing Puppet Environment with Additional Features and Tools
In the second week of this course, we'll learn the concepts of Puppet Facts, Classification, and Puppet DB. We'll learn how to design and implement Puppet Orchestrator, Puppet Reporting and Troubleshooting. By end of the course, we'll able to learn Puppet Facts, Classification, Orchestration and Tasks with Puppet DB, Reporting and Troubleshooting

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