Puppet – Infrastructure Configuration Management

Module 1: Introduction to Puppet

• Configuration management fundamentals: desired state and idempotency
• Puppet overview: declarative infrastructure automation platform
• Puppet architecture: Puppet Server, agents, PuppetDB, and console
• Installing Puppet: Puppet Enterprise and open-source Puppet setup

Module 2: Puppet Language Fundamentals

• Resources: the basic unit of Puppet configuration
• Resource types: package, file, service, user, and exec
• Resource attributes: title, ensure, and type-specific parameters
• Puppet manifests: writing .pp files to define desired state

Module 3: Classes and Modules

• Classes: grouping related resources into reusable units
• Defining and declaring classes: include, class, and require
• Puppet modules: standard directory structure and naming
• Puppet Forge: finding and installing community modules

Module 4: Variables, Facts, and Conditionals

• Variables: defining and using variables in Puppet manifests
• Facter: collecting system facts for dynamic configuration
• Conditional statements: if-elsif-else and case in Puppet
• Selectors: inline conditional expressions in resource attributes

Module 5: Defined Types and Templates

• Defined resource types: reusable parameterised resource groups
• ERB templates: embedding Ruby logic in configuration file templates
• EPP templates: Puppet's native template language
• File resources with templates: generating dynamic configuration files

Module 6: Hiera – Data Separation

• Hiera overview: separating data from Puppet code
• Hiera hierarchy: environment, role, and node-level data lookup
• Hiera YAML files: defining key-value configuration data
• Automatic parameter lookup: binding Hiera data to class parameters

Module 7: Puppet Enterprise Console

• Node classification: assigning classes and parameters to nodes
• Reports: viewing agent run reports and resource statuses
• Role-based access control in Puppet Enterprise
• Code Manager: deploying Puppet code from version control

Module 8: Capstone Project and Assessment

• Puppet module: package, file, and service management for a web stack
• Hiera data: environment-specific configuration separation
• Puppet Enterprise node classification and code deployment project
• Final assessment and course certification

Experience in the Industry Gain expertise from Puppet engineers who have automated infrastructure configuration for hundreds and thousands of Linux and Windows servers across enterprise data centres and cloud environments.

Backgrounds at the Top Our Puppet trainers have worked at infrastructure automation teams and DevOps consulting firms managing large-scale Puppet implementations for financial services, media, and technology organisations.

Clear & Effective Teaching Puppet architecture, manifests, resources, classes, modules, Facter, Hiera, ERB templates, Puppet Forge, and Puppet Enterprise console are explained with real infrastructure automation examples.

Hands-On Learning Focus Students write Puppet manifests, build modules, apply Hiera data separation, create templates, classify nodes in Puppet Enterprise, and deploy code through structured hands-on Puppet lab exercises.

Up-to-Date Knowledge Trainers keep content current with the latest Puppet releases, Puppet Bolt task runner, and evolving infrastructure-as-code and configuration management best practices.