PE301: DEVELOP & MAINTAIN
Available for use with a subscription license or payment.
In Puppet Enterprise 301: Develop & Maintain, you’ll learn how to consolidate your Puppet code base to optimize reuse and implement environment-based testing. By the end of the day, you’ll have the skills you need to test quickly and deploy to production safely. In this instructor-led course, you’ll learn best practices gleaned from the journeys of our most successful customers and apply them to real-world scenarios in hands-on labs.
In this course, you’ll learn how to:
- Configure automated code deployment with Code Manager so that you can speed up your development cycle.
- Refactor your Puppet code using Hiera, class parameters, and data types to make your roles and profiles easier to reuse and maintain.
- Extend profiles so that you can reuse them without duplicating code.
- Implement environment-based testing using node groups to test and deploy with confidence.
Concepts covered include:
- Hiera integration with roles and profiles
- Puppet data types and core resource types
- Resource ordering relationships
Continue your journey on the path to Puppet certification
Completing Puppet Enterprise 301: Develop & Maintain takes you one step further along the path to acing the Puppet Certified Professional exam — a credential that proves to the job market you’ve got those highly sought-after skills in IT automation.
Ask yourself: Am I ready for this?
This course is for you if you're fairly new to Puppet software and are a site reliability engineer (SRE), sysadmin, or DevOps engineer who manages Windows or Linux. You should already know how to complete these tasks in Puppet Enterprise:
- Gather information on facts and resources from nodes.
- Set external and trusted facts on nodes.
- Use basic Git workflow, with commands such as pull and push.
We also strongly recommend that you take the first two courses in this series: Puppet Enterprise 101: Deploy & Discover and Puppet Enterprise 201: Design & Manage.
Be sure to check out the self-assessment checklist in the student prep guide so you’re prepared to get the most out of Puppet Enterprise 301: Develop & Maintain. You can use the links that we provided to help you get up to speed where needed.