Learning Puppet for Windows server : organize your Windows environment using Puppet tools to unload administrative burdens in a short time / Fuat Ulugay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ulugay, Fuat, author.

Series:

Packt enterprise.

Professional Expertise Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puppet (Computer file).

Microsoft Windows server.

Software configuration management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Organize your Windows environment using Puppet tools to unload administrative burdens in a short time

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, [England] ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Organize your Windows environment using Puppet tools to unload administrative burdens in a short time! About This Book Learn to install and implement a Puppet server for Windows administration Script Puppet manifests, functions, templates and facts for Windows A step-by-step guide that helps you to make your Windows environment more secure with Puppet Who This Book Is For This book is for Windows administrators who are looking for ways to automate management tasks of Windows servers and clients. Prior experience in Windows administration and a basic knowledge of Linux and Puppet will help you create wonders using this book. What You Will Learn Install Puppet on a Windows server and Foreman interface to have a user-friendly Puppet working environment Discover how to install Puppet agents to single or multiple computers and get your hosts connected to Puppetmaster in one shot Understand all about creating modules, writing manifests, managing files, services and, users in Puppet Learn how to install Puppet Forge modules to complete tasks such as registry management, ACL, and firewall. Explore the usage of Puppet facts, functions and modules to have a deeper understanding of how Puppet functions Manage installation and updates of third party software using Puppet with Chocolatey to completely forgo the manual update chores in your daily plan Use Puppet for Windows security to have a more secure environment In Detail Puppet is a configuration management tool. It allows you to automate all your IT configurations by giving you control of what you do to each 'node' (Puppet agent), focusing also on when and how you do it. In context, Puppet is a cross-platform tool that is widely used for Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems declaratively. However, it has been used more popularly for Unix-like systems. This book provides insights into using Puppet for Windows administration tasks such as server setup, application updates, and service management. This book kicks off with the fundamentals of Puppet by helping you with the installation of Puppet on a Windows server and progresses with the introduction of the Foreman interface for managing Puppet nodes. Next, you deal with the installation of Puppet agents on multiple clients and how to connect them to your Puppet server by grouping your nodes for easy management. You then become familiarized with the scripting of Puppet manifests along with an understanding of the module structure in Puppet. You furthe...

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Credits""; ""About the Author""; ""About the Reviewers""; ""www.PacktPub.com""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Installing Puppet Server and Foreman""; ""The differences between using Puppet with Windows and with Linux""; ""Installing Puppet Server""; ""Connecting your server with SSH""; ""Installing Puppet""; ""Installing Foreman""; ""The Foreman interface""; ""Keeping your server secure""; ""Backups""; ""Keeping your server up to date""; ""Do not enable root account""; ""The user password policy""

""Do not use old passwords that have been used before""""Using at least a 10 char complex password""; ""Expiring password expires in 90 days""; ""Locking account lock""; ""Using SSH with key file to connect""; ""Creating the public and private key""; ""Getting the key to your computer and converting it into the PuTTY format""; ""Connecting from Linux""; ""Disabling the SSH logins with a password""; ""The firewall rules""; ""Checking which ports to keep open""; ""Defining firewall rules""; ""Making the iptables rules persistent""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 2: Installing Puppet Agents""

""Downloading and installing the Puppet agent""""Signing the certificate""; ""Installing the Puppet agent on multiple clients""; ""Modifying the MSI file""; ""Using software to push the agents""; ""Using a domain controller to push the agents""; ""Managing the node certificates""; ""Displaying the certificates""; ""Signing the certificates""; ""Deleting the certificates""; ""The host groups""; ""Managing the host groups""; ""Assigning the hosts to hosts groups""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 3: Your First Modules""; ""The module structure""; ""The module layout""

""Modules for creating the files and folders""""The Hello World module""; ""Creating the directory structure""; ""Creating the manifest file""; ""Importing the module class in Foreman""; ""Assigning the class to a host""; ""Assigning the class to a host group""; ""Uploading files""; ""Creating folders""; ""Managing services""; ""Running commands""; ""Running the command on certain conditions""; ""Managing users""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 4: Puppet Forge Modules for Windows""; ""Installing modules from Puppet Forge""; ""Managing the registry""; ""Writing the manifests""

""Limitations with the registry module""""The access control list""; ""Changing the permissions of a folder""; ""Purging permissions""; ""Purging permissions and locking a file from user changes""; ""Firewall""; ""The Firewall rule example""; ""The reboot module""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 5: Puppet Facts, Functions, and Templates""; ""Puppet facts""; ""Using the facts in manifests""; ""Adding the custom facts""; ""Adding Windows users as custom facts""; ""Making sure our code works only for Windows""; ""Including the necessary libraries""; ""Defining your variables with empty values""

""Finding the registry values""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 19, 2015).

ISBN:

9781785289941

1785289942

OCLC:

922580795