Deploy Puppet on Google Cloud C4A

About this Learning Path

Who is this for?

This is an introductory topic for developers deploying and optimizing Puppet workloads on Arm Linux environments, specifically using Google Cloud C4A virtual machines powered by Axion processors.

What will you learn?

Upon completion of this Learning Path, you will be able to:

• Provision an Arm-based SUSE SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) virtual machine (VM) on Google Cloud C4A with Axion processors
• Install Puppet on a SUSE Arm64 C4A instance
• Verify Puppet by applying a test manifest and confirming successful resource creation on Arm64
• Benchmark Puppet by measuring catalog compile time, apply speed, and resource usage on Arm64

Prerequisites

Before starting, you will need the following:

• A Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account with billing enabled
• Basic familiarity with Puppet