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Learn Puppet - Prerequisite Skills & Environment Setup
Before writing your first manifest, prepare the basic skills and Puppet environment: an understanding of Linux and Ruby, the concepts of declarative configuration management, and the installation of Puppet, PDK, and a test node.
August 3, 2026
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Learn Puppet - History, Background & Why You Need Puppet
Tracing how Puppet was born: from the era of manual scripting, CFEngine 1993, the birth of Puppet by Luke Kanies in 2005, to Chef and Ansible. Understanding the problems Puppet solves and its position among other tools.
August 3, 2026
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Learn Puppet - Core Concepts & Main Architecture
Dissecting Puppet's architecture from the inside: the agent run flow from Facter gathering facts, SSL certificate authentication, catalog compilation on the server, to reporting to PuppetDB along with its ten main components.
August 3, 2026
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Learn Puppet - Setup & Installation
A guide to building a Puppet lab: adding the official repos, installing puppetserver and puppet-agent, configuring DNS and certificates with SSL bootstrap, plus the first agent run and an OSS vs Enterprise comparison.
August 3, 2026
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Learn Puppet - Manifests & Resource Types
The foundation of the Puppet language: manifest structure, the anatomy of a resource type with title, parameters, and properties, seven core resource types, the declarative and idempotent concepts, and local testing with puppet apply.
August 3, 2026
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Learn Puppet - Classes, Modules & Roles/Profiles
Taking manifests to the next level: reusable classes, parametrized classes, the complete module structure, PDK scaffolding, and the Roles/Profiles pattern for keeping the class hierarchy clean.
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Learn Puppet - Facts, Variables & Facter
In this episode we dig into the data behind every node: the facts gathered by Facter, how to use them in manifests, variables and their scope, as well as if, case, unless, and string interpolation.
August 3, 2026
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Learn Puppet - Hiera (Hierarchical Data)
In this episode we separate data from code with Hiera 5: layered data hierarchies, hiera.yaml, the lookup function, YAML and JSON data in modules and environments, and encrypting secrets with hiera-eyaml.
August 3, 2026
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Learn Puppet - Catalog & Resource Relationships
In this episode we bring manifests and data together into a catalog: ordering resources with before, require, notify, subscribe, chaining arrows, and dissecting the most common catalog errors.
August 3, 2026
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Learn Puppet - PuppetDB
In this episode we add the database behind Puppet: PuppetDB, which stores facts, catalogs, and reports, querying via CLI and API, plus exported resources for building cross-node monitoring and load balancers.
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