Automatic Configuration of Your Cloud with Puppet

The shift to cloud-based services has dramatically altered the IT landscape as we know it. Enterprise infrastructure borders have expanded beyond the firewall and now include hosted applications and infrastructure hosted in public and private clouds. Puppet helps DevOps teams meet their common objectives, creating a seamless IT infrastructure across departments, reducing cost and increasing productivity.This training section will cover deploying cloud infrastructure automatically using Puppet, an open source configuration management and automation tool.The session will cover the following topics:

• Configuring Puppet and Puppetmaster
• Resource Types and the Resource Abstration Layer
• Virtual Resources, Exported Resources and Stored Configs
• Best practices for Automated Deployment