Harald Monihart

Software delivery with Puppet

Implementing self service software delivery with Puppet managed Mac OS X systems

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Produktbeschreibung

Puppet is an open-source, client-server based UNIX system management solution. It uses differential compares to a listing of configurations and applies those changes to client machines if necessary, based on machine's facts. Companies including Google, Inc. are currently using Puppet to manage their large scaled Mac OS X based computer environment. The book shows and evaluates a test environment to provide software delivery and explains and reviews state-of-the-art technologies how to prepare software for delivery natively under Mac OS X. In addition a proof of concept solution a custom application that changes a machine s fact to request specific software is evaluated. This application triggers the target host to update an extended fact and initiates a new Puppet verification by selecting the requested software on a webpage. This solution achieves self service software delivery and builds on top of Puppets capabilities to use Mac OS X s native .pkg software packages for softwaredistribution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783639253078
• ISBN-10: 3639253078
• Artikelnr.: 29606304

Autorenporträt

Harald Monihart, MSc: PhD student with a Masters degree in Information Management and IT Security from the University of Applied Science Technikum Wien. He worked as a Corporate Operations Engineer at Google in Dublin, Ireland and is currently employed at Axel Springer AG as a Systems Administrator in Berlin, Germany.