PE101: On Demand: DEPLOY & DISCOVER - Hands-On Labs
We've got you covered with Puppet Enterprise 101: On Demand: Deploy & Discover. In this on-demand course, you’ll learn best practices gleaned from the journeys of our most successful customers and work through concepts in our hands-on labs.
You'll deploy the Puppet Server and Puppet agents to discover the configuration of Linux and Windows systems. By the time you're finished, you’ll know how to use Puppet to gather and inspect information about the systems in your infrastructure, ensuring there are no surprises during your next audit.
In this course, you’ll learn how to:
- Install and configure Puppet Enterprise version 2023.8.
- Deploy Puppet agents at scale.
- Enable secure communication by configuring certificate autosigning.
- Gather information about systems in a simulated brownfield environment.
- Assign roles to systems on your network so that later you can group them by purpose.
Concepts covered include:
- Role-based access control (RBAC)
- Puppet Server services
- Puppet run cycle
- Facter and facts
- Puppet resources
- Resource abstraction layer
- Package Inspector and package management
Take your first step on the path to Puppet certification
Completing Puppet Enterprise 101: On Demand: Deploy & Discover starts you on 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?
If you're new to Puppet software and are a site reliability engineer (SRE), sysadmin, or DevOps engineer who manages Windows or Linux infrastructure, then this course is for you if you:
- Want to orchestrate and perform as-needed tasks on your server infrastructure at scale
- Want to minimize toil and have more time to do the projects that matter.
- Have some experience working with a command-line interface.
- Have some experience managing a fleet of systems.
Note: Complimentary On Demand courses with Recorded Labs (not hands-on) are also available:
Puppet Enterprise 101: On Demand: Deploy and Discover - Watch & Learn Labs
Puppet Enterprise 201: On Demand: Design & Manage - Watch & Learn Labs
Puppet Enterprise 301: On Demand: Develop & Maintain - Watch & Learn Labs
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 101: On Demand: Deploy & Discover. You can use the links that we provided to help you get up to speed where needed.