Testing Puppet

Requirements:

2 ubuntu servers

Notes:

• I don’t have DNS in my test environment, hence the host file modifications</li>
• The domain for my test network is ‘.home’</li>
• The IP of puppet master is 192.168.1.16 and hostname of puppetmaster</li>
• The IP of my puppet client is: 192.168.1.17 and hostname of puppetclient</li>

Get Started:

On the puppet server:

Install puppet

apt-get install puppetmaster

Modify “DNS”

vim /etc/hosts

Modify the below (this is so the server knows who the client is):

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost puppet
192.168.1.17 puppetclient.home puppetclient

Get my repo

cd /etc/puppet
git clone git@github.com:jtslear/bearded-octo-hipster.git

Restart puppet for good measure:

service puppetmaster restart

Ensure it starts appropriately, check log files, etc…

On the puppet client

Install puppet

apt-get install puppet

Modify “DNS”

vim /etc/hosts

Insert the below (this is so the client knows who the server is):

192.168.1.16 puppetmaster.home puppetmaster puppet

Configure the service to start

vim /etc/default/puppet

Modify the below appropriately:

START=yes

Then start the service:

service puppet start

Complete Configuration

Server Certificate

We need to accept the cert provided by the client, on the server:

sudo puppetca --sign puppetclient.home

On the client, let’s restart puppet, and wait for all to install:

service puppet restart
tail -f /var/log/syslog