In this course, we aim to give a high-level overview of the benefits of testing and how you can get started. We'll walk you through the overall whys and hows of testing Puppet code, give you a brief introduction to industry standard best practices for all software testing, and send you on your way.

PE101: On Demand: DEPLOY & DISCOVER - Watch and Learn 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 watch the concepts in action in our recorded 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
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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: On Demand courses with Hands-on Labs are also available:

Puppet Enterprise 101: On Demand: Deploy and Discover - Interactive, Hands-on Labs

Puppet Enterprise 201: On Demand: Design & Manage - Interactive, Hands-on Labs

Puppet Enterprise 301: On Demand: Develop & Maintain - Interactive, Hands-on 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.

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.

PE502 On Demand: Test and Deliver

Available for use with a subscription license or payment.

PE502 Test and Deliver will cover three key areas of testing:

Unit

Integration

Acceptance

You will learn how to write tests for your Puppet code that cover these critical areas, ensuring your code is robust, accurate and reliable. In this course, we'll teach you the best practices gleaned from the journeys of our most successful customers.

In this course, you'll learn how to: 

• Test your Puppet code effectively using unit, integration, and acceptance testing.
• Write tests for your Puppet code that cover these critical areas, ensuring your code is robust, accurate, and reliable.
• Use the RSpec testing framework to write expressive and maintainable tests.
• Understand the internals of RSpec and rspec-puppet.
• Use the Puppet Development Kit (PDK) throughout the course.
• Understand just enough of the Ruby language to aid in the testing of Puppet code.
• Understand module dependency workflow, including .fixtures.yml and the Puppetfile.
• Set up an Rspec testing framework, test roles and profiles, and use Puppet’s Bolt and puppet apply to conduct acceptance testing.
• Participate in three fully interactive labs where you can practice writing tests for Puppet code in a sandbox environment.
• Examine a range of testing tools that can enhance your workflow, including Onceover, Litmus, Beaker, and Serverspec.
• Approach testing in a way that is flexible and adaptable to different tools and environments.
• Understand Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) principles, with a focus on using Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise to automate the testing and deployment of your Puppet code.
• Receive valuable developer tips for working with RSpec and testing Puppet code, based on real-world experience and best practices.

Concepts covered include: 

• Puppet Code Testing
• Rspec testing framework 
• Three levels of testing: Unit, Integration and Acceptance  
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deliver
  
  

Continue your journey on the path to Puppet certification

Completing PE 502 On Demand: Test and Deliver 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.

We also strongly recommend that you take the first three courses in this series: PE101 On Demand: Deploy & Discover, PE201 On Demand: Design & Manage, and PE301 On Demand: Develop & Maintain.

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 502 On Demand: Test and Deliver. You can use the links that we provided to help you get up to speed where needed.

In this 15-minute course, you'll learn everything you need to know to get started with a Puppet Enterprise trial installation. You'll need to have some beginner-level familiarity with creating servers and networking them together to get the full benefit of the course.

If you plan to rewatch the course while you walk through the installation, you should expect to spend about 45-60 minutes on the whole project.

In this tour of the Puppet Comply console, you'll discover the features in Puppet's answer to continuous compliance monitoring. Puppet Comply is an extension of Puppet Enterprise (PE) and works closely with PE to provide your organization with up-to-the-minute info on critical compliance.

PE301 On Demand: DEVELOP & MAINTAIN - Watch & Learn Labs

In Puppet Enterprise 301 On Demand: Develop & Maintain, you’ll learn how to work with Puppet Enterprise 2023.8 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 course, you’ll learn best practices gleaned from the journeys of our most successful customers and see them in action in real-world scenarios in recorded 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 On Demand: 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 - Watch & Learn and Puppet Enterprise 201: Design & Manage - Watch & Learn.

Note: On Demand courses with Hands-on Labs are also available:

Puppet Enterprise 101: On Demand: Deploy and Discover - Interactive, Hands-on Labs

Puppet Enterprise 201: On Demand: Design & Manage - Interactive, Hands-on Labs

Puppet Enterprise 301: On Demand: Develop & Maintain - Interactive, Hands-on 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 301: Develop & Maintain. You can use the links that we provided to help you get up to speed where needed.

PE201: On Demand: Design & Manage  - Watch & Learn Labs

In Puppet Enterprise 201: On Demand: Design & Manage, you’ll work with Puppet Enterprise 2023.8 to learn how to use roles and profiles to build an infrastructure that mimics a production environment with a designated web application server, an e-commerce server, and a load balancer. You’ll leave the course with a solid understanding of how to define server roles based on business requirements and existing infrastructure.

You’ll learn best practices gleaned from the journeys of our most successful customers and see them in action in real world scenarios in recorded labs. By the time you’re finished, you’ll have a base profile that provides the tools that any Puppet-managed server needs, a server profile that provides default server tools, and a role such as “web application server” that provides software to serve the application and gather application data.

In this course, you’ll learn how to:

• Access node facts to quickly gain key information about your system's health and configuration, saving you time and effort.
• Run Puppet in no-op mode to simulate system changes without applying them.
• Write Puppet code to bring up a web application server.
• Use Puppet Development Kit (PDK) to create classes and validate code.
• Use component modules to configure servers according to your requirements.
• Evaluate and implement Puppet Forge modules to increase code sustainability and reduce maintenance. 
• Develop roles to include profiles, enabling you to easily build servers to spec from reusable building blocks.
• 
  

Concepts covered include:

• Causes of drift between current and desired states
• The agent catalog
• Idempotency (the ability to repeatedly apply an agent catalog without changing the result beyond the initial application)
• Node classification with trusted facts
• The control repository (control repo)
• Component modules and module dependencies
• 
  

Continue your journey on the path to Puppet certification

Completing Puppet Enterprise 201: On Demand: Design & Manage 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 course in this series: Puppet Enterprise 101: On Demand: Deploy and Discover - Watch and Learn, which teaches you how to install and configure Puppet Enterprise, deploy agents, and gather information about the systems in your infrastructure to prepare for a faux compliance audit. 

Note: On Demand courses with Hands-on Labs are also available:
Puppet Enterprise 101: On Demand: Deploy and Discover - Interactive, Hands-on Labs

Puppet Enterprise 201: On Demand: Design & Manage - Interactive, Hands-on Labs

Puppet Enterprise 301: On Demand: Develop & Maintain - Interactive, Hands-on 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 201: Design & Manage. You can use the links that we provided to help you get up to speed where needed.