Working with the Puppet Agent in standalone mode is great for learning Puppet. This course will show you how the Puppet Server ensures a centralized configuration node.

Centralizing your configuration on the Puppet Server ensures that your code only needs to be managed in the one location. In this course, Puppet 4: Server and Puppet Enterprise, you will install modules to the server, configure hiera on the server, and write Puppet code on the server. First, you'll get to see some of the differences between Puppet Server and Puppet Enterprise, as well as installing Puppet Enterprise onto the CentOS 7 host. Next, you'll get to see what can be managed with the Puppet Enterprise Dashboard and how you can use Puppet Server to distribute Agent Packages. Finally, you'll see how you can make use of Roles and Profiles to organize Puppet code for easier and more efficient assignment. You use both the Puppet Open Source Server and Puppet Enterprise Server so you may compare the two. By the end of the course, you will be comfortable in using the Puppet Server both from the command line and dashboard.