Training Agenda

Puppet

Puppet is a model-driven configuration management system that describes the desired end state of your infrastructure in Puppet DSL or Ruby — and continuously enforces that state across nodes. Its declarative approach and strong ecosystem of modules make it a standard in enterprise Linux and Windows automation. This training covers Puppet from manifest writing through Puppet Enterprise management.

2 days On-site, remote, or hybrid Up to 20 participants German or English
What We Cover
Declare state, enforce continuously, test first
Day 1

Manifests, Modules & Puppet DSL

  • Puppet architecture: Puppet Server, Puppet agent, catalog compilation — the declarative enforcement loop
  • Puppet DSL: Resources, classes, defined types, variables, conditionals — writing readable manifests
  • Core resource types: package, service, file, exec, user, group — the resources you'll use every day
  • Facter: System facts and custom facts for dynamic configuration based on node data
  • Hiera: Data separation from code — hierarchies, YAML backends, Hiera 5 with environment-level data
  • Writing modules: Manifests, templates (EPP/ERB), files, data — structuring a reusable Puppet module
  • Puppet Forge: Consuming community modules with Puppetfile/r10k
  • Node classification: site.pp, roles, profiles pattern — assigning configuration to nodes
Day 2

Testing, Environments & Puppet Enterprise

  • Testing Puppet code: rspec-puppet unit tests, acceptance tests with Puppet Litmus
  • r10k: Environment management with control repositories — branching strategy for Puppet code
  • Code deployment workflows: Feature branches, production promotion — safe Puppet code delivery
  • Puppet Enterprise Console: Node management, reporting, task execution — the management UI
  • Puppet Tasks (Bolt): Ad-hoc remote execution without an agent — when convergence isn't needed
  • RBAC in Puppet Enterprise: User groups, permissions, token auth — enterprise access control
  • PuppetDB: Inventory queries, exported resources, fact storage — querying your infrastructure data
Learning Outcomes
What your team walks away with

Puppet practitioners who can write, test, and manage Puppet code across environments using the roles-and-profiles pattern and Puppet Enterprise.

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Available standalone or combined with the Chef or Ansible training for a configuration management comparison.

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