Puppet for Containerization - Softcover

Coulton, Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785883283 ISBN 13: 9781785883286

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Key Features

• This is the first book that focuses specifically on the combination of containerization and configuration management tools as the landscape for system administration changes
• It demonstrates to administrators how to seamlessly integrate containerization without disrupting their entire system
• It provides a canny way for you to grow your tool kit and embrace new tech such as Docker while building on your existing skill set

Book Description

This book teaches you to take advantage of the new benefits of containerization systems like Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and Mesos, without losing the panoptical power of proper configuration management. You will learn to integrate your containerized applications and modules with your Puppet workflow. You will also understand how to manage, monitor, and orchestrate hosts to keep deployed containers running seamlessly. With the help of this book, you can efficiently automate and document with containers, as a part of your system. The book will also cover use cases to deploy Puppet itself within a containerized environment.

What you will learn

• Write Puppet modules to build Docker
• Create Docker Compose templates with erb files
• Get to know the architecture of Docker schedulers
• Create a Docker network and service discovery framework
• Build a fully functional Docker scheduler with Puppet
• Make Docker production-ready with Puppet

About the Author

Scott Coulton is a solutions architect with 10 years of experience in the managed services and hosting space. He has extensive experience in architecture, and rolling out systems and network solutions for national and multinational companies with a wide variety of technologies, including AWS, Puppet, Docker, Cisco, VMware, Microsoft, and Linux. His design strengths are in cloud computing, automation, and the security space.

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About this title

About the Author

Scott Coulton

Scott Coulton is a solutions architect with 10 years of experience in the field of managed services and hosting space. He has extensive experience in architecture and in rolling out systems and network solutions for national and multinational companies with a wide variety of technologies including AWS, Puppet, Docker, Cisco, VMware, Microsoft, and Linux. His design strengths are in cloud computing, automation, and security space. You can find him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-coulton-22864813. You can find him on Twitter at @scottcoulton and on GitHub at https://github.com/scotty-c.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785883283
• ISBN 13: 9781785883286
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222