{"product_id":"puppet-best-practices-design-patterns-for-maintainable-code-9781491923009","title":"Puppet Best Practices: Design Patterns for Maintainable Code","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf you maintain or plan to build Puppet infrastructure, this practical guide will take you a critical step further with best practices for managing the task successfully. Authors Chris Barbour and Jo Rhett present best-in-class design patterns for deploying Puppet environments and discuss the impact of each. The conceptual designs and implementation patterns in this book will help you create solutions that are easy to extend, maintain, and support. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Essential for companies upgrading their Puppet deployments, this book teaches you powerful new features and implementation models that weren't available in the older versions. DevOps engineers will learn how best to deploy Puppet with long-term maintenance and future growth in mind. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplore Puppet's design philosophy and data structures \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGet best practices for using Puppet's declarative language \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExamine Puppet resources in depth--the building blocks of state management \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearn to model and describe business and site-specific logic in Puppet \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSee best-in-class models for multitiered data management with Hiera \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplore available options and community experience for node classification \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUtilize r10k to simplify and accelerate Puppet change management \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReview the cost benefits of creating your own extensions to Puppet \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGet detailed advice for extending Puppet in a maintainable manner \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chris Barbour,Jo Rhett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e O'Reilly Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/16\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 305\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 6.93w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781491923009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChris Barbour is a Practice Leader at Taos Mountain, Inc. He specializes in IT automation and large scale infrastructure, an has been working with configuration management solutions in various forms since 2008. Chris has maintained and deployed a mix of Puppet and Puppet Enterprise in a number of large scale multi-platform environments. In addition to his operational responsibilities, he provides training and professional guidance for consultants looking to learn Puppet or otherwise further their IT careers. Chris lives in the heart of Silicon Valley with his wife and son, and in his free time enjoys motorcycling, photography, and travel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJo Rhett is a network architect and DevOps engineer with 20 years of experience conceptualizing and delivering large-scale Internet services. He focuses on creating automation and infrastructure to accelerate deployment and minimize outages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJo has been using, promoting, and enhancing configuration management systems for over 20 years. He builds improvements and plugins for CfEngine, Puppet, MCollective, and many other DevOps tools.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJo is the author of Learning Puppet 4, Learning MCollective, and Instant Puppet 3 Starter (Packt).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"O'Reilly Media","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45384565981299,"sku":"9781491923009","price":80.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_ecbb26f9-b08f-4a43-9b3e-733d5bf99d66.jpg?v=1787335857","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/puppet-best-practices-design-patterns-for-maintainable-code-9781491923009","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}