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Introduction to Puppet for Infrastructure Configuration Management
Get started with Puppet configuration management by learning manifests, the master-agent model, and Puppet Forge modules.
Continuous Integration with Jenkins: Automating Build and Test Pipelines
How to set up Jenkins for continuous integration, including pipeline configuration, plugin selection, and distributed builds.
Getting Started with Chef for Infrastructure Automation
An introduction to Chef infrastructure automation covering architecture, cookbooks, testing, and deployment workflows.
Automating Server Provisioning with Shell Scripts and Kickstart
How to combine Kickstart unattended installation with shell scripts for fast, repeatable server provisioning.
Version Control for Infrastructure: Managing Configs with Subversion
How to use Subversion for version-controlling server configurations as part of an infrastructure-as-code approach.
Introduction to Configuration Management with Puppet
An introductory guide to using Puppet for automated configuration management across your server infrastructure.
Puppet: Declarative Configuration Management at Scale
An introduction to Puppet for declarative configuration management, covering manifests, modules, node classification, and adoption strategies.
Continuous Integration Practices for Operations Teams
Applying continuous integration practices to infrastructure operations, covering automated testing, staging environments, and build dashboards.
Version Control for Infrastructure with Subversion
How to use Subversion for infrastructure version control, covering repository structure, change workflows, and SVN hooks for quality control.