This guide walks through Puppet's architecture, sets up a four‑node master‑client environment, configures NTP and certificates, creates an SSH module to change the SSH port, and demonstrates both client‑pull and server‑push synchronization methods for automated Linux configuration.
This article explains how to structure modular Puppet code by configuring environments, creating reusable modules, and designing classes, covering environment paths, hiera data, module generation, publishing to the Forge, and key class functions such as include, require, contain, and hiera_include.
This article introduces Puppet, an open‑source configuration‑management framework, explains its architecture and workflow, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for installing and configuring master, CA, and agent nodes, along with a detailed overview of the puppet.conf settings and common resource types for large‑scale server automation.
This article explains how to monitor the Puppet configuration management system, covering its request‑response‑execution‑report workflow, key monitoring metrics, black‑box and white‑box monitoring approaches, common issues, and practical solutions for ensuring large‑scale cluster consistency.
This tutorial walks through Puppet's architecture, workflow, and detailed installation of a puppetmaster and puppet agents on Linux, covering SSL security, manifest creation, module development, and a practical SSH port‑remapping case study.
This article compares popular automation‑ops tools—Puppet, Ansible, and Foreman—offering practical guidance on when to use each, how to leverage Ansible’s strengths, and how to work with Puppet’s fact mechanism for dynamic configuration and data collection.
This article explains how to build an automated CMDB asset collection system by extending Puppet's Facter with custom plugins, using a custom Report Processor to post data to an AutoBank service, and deploying a Python/Django API server for storage and retrieval.
Engineers often face "choice paralysis" when picking an automation tool, but Puppet, Ansible, and SaltStack are all mature; the article compares their strengths, explains when to use Ansible, how Foreman extends Puppet, and how to leverage Puppet's fact mechanism for dynamic configuration.
The Meituan‑Dianping technical salon showcases its DevOps automation philosophy by presenting three core tools—DB automation platform, service tree, and Puppet web management—while also featuring Shanghai Zhaogang Network’s CMDB experience, illustrating how rapid O2O growth drives the need for fast, reliable, and scalable operational automation.
Meituan Dianping’s technical salon showcased its automation journey—detailing database automation platforms, service‑tree management, Puppet‑based web control, and a CMDB case study from Shanghai Zhaogang—highlighting rapid iteration, standardization challenges, and the evolution of automation from tools to core operational practice.
This article explains Puppet's architecture, data flow, and practical examples, showing how automated configuration management can efficiently handle large numbers of servers, reduce manual errors, and improve operational reliability in modern IT environments.
This article explains how Puppet automates large‑scale server provisioning by describing its architecture, workflow, manifest examples, class inheritance, and module structure, helping operations teams reduce manual effort and avoid errors in configuration management.
This transcript shares a senior operations engineer’s step‑by‑step experience covering IDC and bandwidth selection, hardware checks, OS installation, initial configuration, migration from Puppet to Salt, user authentication, audit logging, and KVM virtualization, offering concrete tips and real‑world examples.
This comprehensive guide explains Puppet's core concepts, workflow, installation steps, resource management, language syntax, class/module structure, and provides a practical LNMP deployment example for automating Linux system configuration.
This article shares the author's personal journey of conceiving, planning, writing, and publishing a technical book on Puppet, detailing the motivations, step‑by‑step process, challenges, case studies, and the professional benefits gained from turning the writing effort into tangible value.
This article compiles a Q&A from the InfoQ Efficient Ops Talk, where expert Liu Yu discusses Puppet's limitations, compares automation tools like Ansible and MCollective, and offers practical advice for startups building sustainable release pipelines and managing Windows and cloud environments.
This article summarizes a comprehensive talk on Puppet covering its evolution, core concepts, architecture, ecosystem, practical use cases such as building a CMDB, automated deployment pipelines, OpenStack deployment, and the interplay with Docker, highlighting how Puppet drives modern operations automation.
This article explains why many IT teams struggle with code that works in development but fails in production, introduces Puppet as a configuration‑management platform, describes its declarative language, resources, types, providers, classes, manifests and modules, and shows how it enables reliable, collaborative DevOps workflows.
