Preface

Every project changes when you scale it out. Puppet is no different. Working on a small number of nodes with a small team of developers is a completely different task than working with thousands of nodes with a large group of developers.

Mastering Puppet deals with the issues faced with larger deployments, such as scaling and duplicate resource definitions. It will show you how to fit Puppet into your organization and keep everyone working. The concepts presented can be adopted to suit organizations of any size.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Dealing with Load/Scale, deals with scaling out your Puppet infrastructure to handle a large number of nodes. Using proxying techniques, a sample deployment is presented.

Chapter 2, Organizing Your ...

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