Yes, Puppet has been out for a while now. Yes, I am sure a ton of people already have “Getting Started with Puppet” posts.

Well, I am going to do it.

I have been wanting to become more familiar with Puppet for a while and just haven’t sat down to do it. Looking at the puppetlabs.com site I saw they have a “Learning VM” which has “quests” to learn puppet. LaaG, or Learning as a Game, I am Down!

It was a pretty simple process downloading and then setting up the VM in Workstation. The included pdf also has instructions for setup in VirtualBox.

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After a quick start up and making sure it has a valid IP I can start the Quests!

The walkthrough pdf is great. All the steps are clearly out lined, and each of the tasks of a quests are clearly marked so you don’t miss anything.

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The Learning VM is linux, which is not my strongest suit, but they have built in a few things to help. The first being a quest tracker(just like a video Game!).

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Once you start a quest, as directed by the walkthrough pdf, you can check your progress by either typing quest –progress

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Or if you don’t need all the details, just look in the lower right corner of the console

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Pretty intuitive.

As you can see in the above screens my first real quest is setting up a website, during which I saw the Puppet Enterprise console…

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This definitely looks a bit daunting at first glance, but I am hopeful at the end of the quests it will be a new friend!

Initial reaction is that the Learning VM for Puppet is pretty intuitive, well documented, and enjoyable. I am not sure I could ask for more. Keep tuned for more posts as I work my way through it!

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