Puppet- Installation

 

Installing Puppet Master

Step 1: Run the following commands for installing Puppet Master
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install wget
$ wget https://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppet-release-bionic.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i puppet-release-bionic.deb
$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install puppet-master
$ sudo systemctl status puppet-master.service

Add the following lines in the puppet-master configuration file
Next open port 8140 on the Puppet Master’s firewall
$ sudo nano /etc/default/puppet-master
JAVA_ARGS="-Xms512m Xmx512m" 
$ sudo systemctl restart puppet-master
$ sudo ufw allow 8140/tcp

Installing Puppet Agent

Step 1: Run the following commands for installing Puppet Agent

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install wget
$ wget https://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppet-release-bionic.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i puppet-release-bionic.deb
$ sudo apt-get install puppet
$ sudo nano /etc/hosts
   add ip address of the master
$ sudo systemctl start puppet
$ sudo systemctl enable puppet


Step 3: Make changes to the hosts file which exists in /etc/hosts. And add the Puppet
Master IP address along with the name “puppet”

$ sudo nano /etc/hosts

Step 4: Create the following directory path:

$ sudo mkdir -p /etc/puppet/code/environments/production/manifests

On Master

$ sudo puppet cert list

Step 2: Finally, sign the listed certificate using the following command:
$ sudo puppet cert sign --all

Verify the installation

On master machine create /etc/puppet/code/environments/production/manifests/site.pp

node default{

package {'apache2':
ensure => installed,
}

file { '/tmp/status.txt':

content => 'installed',
mode => '0644',
}
}

# Goto client machine and run the command
puppet agent --test

#-----------Find the resource types
puppet resource --types
puppet resource file /tmp/status.txt