Puppet Fundamental Advance Training Course online
Extend Puppet with custom functions, secrets and reports, run a hardened PE CA, and maintain, upgrade and troubleshoot PE at scale. Learn Puppet through a clear Foundation to Advanced path, with hands-on labs, live cohort options, certification support and full LMS access.
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Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Puppet levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
About Puppet Fundamental Advance Training Course online.
Understand where Puppet fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Puppet is taught as a practical technical skill for modern engineering, operations and platform teams. The course explains where the tool fits, how it is used in real delivery environments, and how learners can apply it through guided practice.
This DevOpsSchool Puppet program is built for working professionals who want usable skills instead of only conceptual exposure. The training emphasizes live examples, workflow clarity, operational controls and progressive skill depth from Foundation to Advanced.
Private Puppet training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Puppet training for teams that need faster adoption, workflow standardization, administrative control, integration guidance and governance-ready rollout. Private batches can be aligned to development practice, release workflow, access model, maturity level and internal tooling.
- Private online or classroom delivery for engineering teams
- Aligned to Puppet usage maturity, admin depth and collaboration patterns
- Useful for rollout, migration, governance and workflow consistency goals
- Can be tailored for developers, administrators, DevOps teams and leadership stakeholders
Why teams use DevOpsSchool
DevOpsSchool combines live demonstration, practical workflow discussion, implementation-oriented examples, and strong post-session learning support. That makes the training more usable for real teams than generic slide-led courses.
Choose any level. The page still shows the full progression.
Foundation, Essential, Intermediate and Advanced are presented as one linked training flow. Self-paced buyers get all levels by default, even if they start from only one course page.
Instructor-led, self-paced and corporate delivery options.
Compare delivery format, duration, level access and batch style. Fees are shown only in the top decision panel and once again after the agenda.
| Duration | Mode | Level access | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | Live & Interactive | Advanced | Public batch |
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | 1:1 Live training | Advanced | Starts immediately |
| 1 year LMS access | Self-paced video | All 4 levels | Anytime access |
| 5 Days | Corporate | Puppet Fundamental Advance Training Course online | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Puppet training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Automate configuration with Puppet
Write idempotent Puppet code, classes and modules that keep servers in their desired state.
Develop and test modules
Build, test and package modules with PDK, rspec-puppet, Hiera data and Forge content.
Operate Puppet Enterprise
Install, secure, orchestrate, upgrade and troubleshoot Puppet Enterprise across many nodes.
Why this skill, what you will achieve, and who should attend.
Use this section to decide whether the course matches your role, current experience and expected Puppet responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Puppet matters
- Puppet helps teams standardize a critical part of their software delivery, infrastructure, automation or operations workflow.
- It gives learners a repeatable way to move from basic usage to confident execution in team and enterprise environments.
- For DevOps and platform teams, Puppet becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Puppet effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Puppet concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Puppet in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Puppet for individual, team and organizational use cases.
Pre-requisites
- Basic computer literacy and familiarity with software development workflows.
- Helpful but not mandatory: introductory DevOps, cloud, automation or software delivery awareness.
- No deep programming background is required for the Foundation and Essential levels.
Who this course is for
- Developers, administrators and engineers who need practical Puppet usage skills.
- DevOps engineers, release engineers, SREs and platform teams managing delivery standards.
- Engineering leads and technical managers responsible for workflow quality, access controls and governance.
- Corporate teams migrating to or standardizing on Puppet.
Small-batch live training starts every month.
Weekday batches start on the 1st and weekend batches on the first Saturday of every month. One-to-one (1:1) training can start immediately; corporate sessions are scheduled on demand.
Weekend live batch
Starts on the first Saturday of every month. Weekend sessions with demos, labs and Q&A; max 10 learners.
Weekday live batch
Starts on the 1st of every month. Weekday sessions for working professionals and distributed teams; max 10 learners.
Ask advisorAgenda depth up to the selected level.
This page shows the learning flow from Foundation through Advanced. Each level adds to the previous one, and the agenda stops at the current page level. Day counts are for corporate (day-wise) delivery; live online batches cover the same agenda in max 8 to 10 hours.
Foundation Level: Configuration management, Puppet architecture and installationDay 1
- Introduction to configuration management: why automation and configuration management are critical
- Why Puppet: comparison with Ansible, Chef and Salt, the declarative model and idempotency
- Puppet open source vs Puppet Enterprise: differences, use cases, Puppet Core and the OpenVox community fork
- Puppet 2025 release overview: Puppet Enterprise 2025 highlights, key changes and deprecated features
- Puppet architecture and core concepts: Puppet Server (primary server) and Puppet Agent workflow
- Catalog compilation: how facts, manifests and data become a catalog; PuppetDB overview; run lifecycle and transactions
- Getting started with Puppet Enterprise: documentation overview, monolithic vs split architecture, infrastructure requirements
- Installing Puppet Server: running the PE installer, puppet.conf basics and service checks
- Installing Puppet Agent on Linux and Windows: packages, the server setting and the first certificate request
- Crash demo: setting up Puppet Server, agent and environment and running the first catalog with puppet agent -t
- Puppet Enterprise console: accessing the console, first logins and navigating the GUI
- Working with Facter: facts and their role in configuration management, viewing built-in facts
- Adding simple custom facts: external facts in facts.d and a first Ruby custom fact
Essential Level = Foundation + Puppet language, Hiera, modules and PE administrationDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- Puppet DSL overview: manifests, resource declarations, puppet apply and puppet parser validate
- Working with resources: file, package, service, user, group, exec and notify types and their attributes
- Variables and ordering basics: variables, facts in manifests, before, require, notify and subscribe
- Classes (introductory level): defining and including classes and simple class parameters
- Simple EPP files: Embedded Puppet with the epp() function to generate configuration files
- Hiera basics: what is Hiera, configuring hiera.yaml at intro level and simple key-value data lookup
- Working with modules: what modules are and why they matter, module structure basics
- Using Puppet Forge modules: puppet module install, supported modules and Puppetfile basics
- Puppet Development Kit quick intro: pdk new module, pdk new class and pdk validate
- Node management basics in the PE console: node inventory, facts and run reports
- Classifying nodes and access: node groups and rules at intro level, managing access with RBAC
- Running Puppet on demand: orchestrator basics from the console and puppet job run
- SSL and certificates essentials: how Puppet uses certificates, a simple signing workflow and autosigning basics
- Troubleshooting for beginners: reading Puppet logs and debugging a failed Puppet run
Intermediate Level = Essential + Advanced language, PDK testing, orchestration and SSLDay 3 · 3 days cumulative
- Facter in depth: core facts, custom facts, external facts and configuring facter.conf
- Language in depth: expressions, conditionals, operators, built-in functions, relationships and chaining arrows
- Nodes and defined types: node definitions and classes, defined resource types for repeatable resources
- EPP and ERB in depth: expressions, iteration and Hiera-driven values in generated configuration files
- Hiera and data management: hiera.yaml structure, hierarchy levels, data lookups and overrides, using Hiera in manifests
- Module development with PDK: installing PDK, creating new modules, converting existing modules, customising configuration
- Building and packaging modules: metadata.json, pdk build and publishing to the Forge or a private repository
- Testing and best practices: the Puppet style guide, puppet-lint and metadata-json-lint
- Unit testing: rspec-puppet, rspec-puppet-facts and Rubocop for Ruby code; writing, validating and testing a module
- Puppet Enterprise administration: managing nodes, node classification and groups, access and permissions, inspecting infrastructure
- Orchestration with Puppet: orchestrator and on-demand runs, Bolt tasks and plans, orchestrating multi-node runs
- SSL and certificates: puppetserver ca commands, autosigning and CSR attributes, regenerating certificates, external CA intro
- Maintenance and troubleshooting: common errors, debugging catalogs, logs and report analysis, PE backup and restore overview
Advanced Level = Intermediate + Custom functions, secrets, reports, CA, upgrades and securityDays 4-5 · 5 days cumulative
- Writing custom functions in Puppet: Puppet language functions and custom functions written in Ruby
- Secrets: secrets store integrations, Deferred functions for agent-side data retrieval, a function to store secrets
- Working with Hiera in depth: getting started, configuring Hiera, creating and editing data, looking up data
- Hiera backends: writing new data backends, encrypted data with hiera-eyaml and upgrading to Hiera 5
- Tracking Puppet activity with reports: reporting, the report reference and the report format
- Custom report processors: writing report processors and sending reports to external systems
- Puppet certificate authority: Puppet Server CA commands, intermediate CA, CSR attributes and certificate extensions
- External CA and SSL termination: external CA, external SSL termination with Puppet Server, regenerating certificates
- Puppet Enterprise maintenance: routine maintenance tasks, log management, backup and recovery
- Upgrades: upgrading Puppet Enterprise and Puppet agents, migrating from Puppet open source to PE
- Security: securing PE infrastructure, RBAC, certificate lifecycle management and securing Puppet code
- Troubleshooting: common errors and fixes, debugging catalogs and manifests, SSL issues and case-study labs
- Capstone: end-to-end PE deployment, write, test and deploy a module, orchestrate a change, monitor and troubleshoot
Choose live training or a full year of self-paced access.
If someone buys Foundation, Essential, Intermediate or Advanced as self-paced video, the price stays the same and access is granted to all four levels by default.
Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Puppet levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
- Start immediately: no waiting for the monthly batch.
- One learner, one trainer: full attention on your questions.
- Sessions planned around your working hours.
- Your pace, with examples from your own projects and tools.
Method of training and assessment.
The course emphasizes practical demonstration, hands-on labs and assignment-based validation instead of passive lecture-only learning.
| SL | Method of training and assessment | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding the problem space | 5% |
| 2 | Concept discussion | 10% |
| 3 | Live demo and walkthrough | 25% |
| 4 | Lab and hands-on exercises | 50% |
| 5 | Assignments and evaluation | 10% |
Labs, exercises and real workflow practice.
Every level moves from explanation to hands-on practice, review and troubleshooting.
Install Puppet Enterprise and run a catalog
Install a monolithic Puppet Enterprise server, connect a Linux and a Windows agent, sign their certificates and apply a first catalog.
Build a web server module
Write a module that installs and configures Nginx with package, file and service resources, EPP and Hiera data, then classify nodes in PE.
Test and orchestrate a module rollout
Convert a module to PDK, add rspec-puppet tests and linting, then deploy and orchestrate it across several nodes with Bolt and troubleshoot a failing run.
Run an end-to-end PE deployment
Deploy Puppet Enterprise, ship a tested module with a secrets-backed function and custom report processor, orchestrate a change and troubleshoot it live.
Puppet is taught as part of a working delivery ecosystem.
You learn where the tool sits in the wider engineering workflow, not in isolation.
Core foundations
Terminology, concepts, architecture and the operating model behind the tool.
Workflow traceability
Map practical work to tasks, approvals, documentation and delivery visibility.
Automation and integration
Use Puppet with validation checks, automation hooks and delivery workflows.
Governance controls
Operate with permissions, approvals, policy checks and production-safe workflows.
How your practical work is assessed.
Your certificate is backed by labs, assignments, capstone thinking and completion evidence.
Assignments
Level-specific assignments verify setup, configuration, workflow quality and operating discipline.
Hands-on validation
Learners are expected to complete practical usage, automation and troubleshooting exercises.
Completion record
Certificate issuance is tied to demonstrated participation, practical completion and course-level coverage.
Led by Rajesh Kumar and the DevOpsSchool practitioner network.
Training is grounded in practical DevOps, SRE, security, release and platform engineering experience with real enterprise delivery context.
Earn a DevOpsSchool Puppet certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Puppet level.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
Puppet Advanced Training
Unique credential ID, verifiable online
What learners say about training with Rajesh Kumar.
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Used by developers, DevOps engineers, release leads and engineering managers.
Private batches are available for teams that want the same agenda aligned to their own tools and workflows.
Why this Puppet path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Puppet Training | Typical short course |
|---|---|---|
| Levels | Foundation, Essential, Intermediate, Advanced | Single generic syllabus |
| Self-paced access | All four levels plus 20+ courses and 50+ tools | Usually one course only |
| Live training | Demos, labs, Q&A and assignment review | Often lecture-heavy |
| Certificate | DevOpsSchool completion certificate | Varies by provider |
Questions learners ask before joining.
Does Foundation cost less than Advanced?
No. Self-paced pricing is intentionally the same because access includes all four levels by default.
What is included in the yearly subscription?
One year of complete LMS access, all four levels for the selected course, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
Can corporate teams request customization?
Yes. The live format can be aligned to team tools, governance requirements, workflows and internal delivery standards.
What is the recommended sequence?
Foundation → Essential → Intermediate → Advanced. The agenda is designed so each level builds on the previous one.
Talk to DevOpsSchool before choosing the batch.
Use this support section for batch questions, corporate planning, LMS access clarifications, or guidance on which Puppet level fits your team.
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