One of the most powerful tools the administration system will be released is Puppet, a solution capable of automating nearly every aspect of the work of system administrators? S, from user management, to software installation, even for services such as FTP servers and LDAP configuration. Interesting Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy is the first book to introduce the Puppet tool a strong administrative system. Author James Turnbull will guide you through Puppet? S main features, show you how to install and configure the software, create automated Puppet tasks, known as the recipe, and even create reporting solutions and extend Puppet further to your own needs. A bonus chapter is included covering Facter library, which makes it easy to automate the retrieval server configuration details such as IP and MAC address. What are you? Will learn to properly install and configure the puppet in order to quickly maximize his abilities. Use Facter query to the server operating system for important data such as IP address, server name, and MAC address.