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Setting up Puppet Server in RHEL 8 / CENTOS 8
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| Step 1 - Add such entry in /etc/hosts | |
| ====================================================== | |
| $ hostnamectl set-hostname puppet | |
| $ vim /etc/hosts | |
| 20.163.145.158 puppet | |
| 172.173.236.231 agent1 | |
| 172.173.236.232 agent3 | |
| Step 2 - Enable the Puppet platform on Yum | |
| ====================================================== | |
| $ sudo rpm -Uvh https://yum.puppet.com/puppet7-release-el-8.noarch.rpm | |
| $ yum install puppetserver | |
| $ sudo systemctl start puppetserver | |
| Step 3 - Open a new shell, or use exec bash to update your PATH | |
| ====================================================== | |
| $ exec bash | |
| $ puppetserver -v | |
| $ sudo systemctl status puppetserver |
by Setting up Puppet Agent in Linux
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| Step 1 - Add such entry in /etc/hosts | |
| ====================================================== | |
| $ hostnamectl set-hostname agent1 | |
| $ vim /etc/hosts | |
| 20.163.145.158 puppet | |
| 172.173.236.231 agent1 | |
| 172.173.236.232 agent3 | |
| Step 2 - Enable the Puppet platform repository | |
| ========================================================= | |
| # RHEL 8 / CENTOS 8 | |
| $ sudo rpm -Uvh https://yum.puppet.com/puppet7-release-el-8.noarch.rpm | |
| # RHEL 7 / CENTOS | |
| $ sudo rpm -Uvh https://yum.puppet.com/puppet6-release-el-7.noarch.rpm | |
| Ubuntu | |
| $ wget https://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppet6-release-bionic.deb | |
| $ sudo dpkg -i puppet6-release-bionic.deb | |
| Step 3 - Install Puppet Agent | |
| ========================================================= | |
| # RHEL / Centos | |
| $ sudo yum install puppet-agent | |
| $ systemctl status puppet | |
| $ systemctl start puppet | |
| $ systemctl enable puppet | |
| $ systemctl status puppet | |
| $ source /etc/profile.d/puppet-agent.sh | |
| $ sudo /opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet resource service puppet ensure=running enable=true | |
| # Ubuntu | |
| $ sudo apt-get install puppet-agent | |
| $ systemctl status puppet | |
| $ systemctl start puppet | |
| $ systemctl enable puppet | |
| $ systemctl status puppet | |
| $ source /etc/profile.d/puppet-agent.sh | |
| $ sudo /opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet resource service puppet ensure=running enable=true |
Configure Puppet Agent with Server
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| @Puppet Agent | |
| $ puppet config set server puppet --section main | |
| $ puppet ssl bootstrap | |
| @Puppet Server | |
| $ puppetserver ca list | |
| $ sudo puppetserver ca sign --certname <agent-name> | |
| @Puppet Agent | |
| puppet ssl bootstrap | |
| puppet agent -t | |
| puppet agent -t -d --trace > puppet_output.txt 2>&1 | |
| # Get a debug-level log from an agent run in PE using the command line and save it to a file. | |
| To get a log for an agent running on Linux and Windows, run: | |
| $ puppet agent -t -d --trace > puppet_output.txt 2>&1 | |
| To get a log for agent run times, run: | |
| $ puppet agent -t -d --evaltrace --trace > puppet_output.txt 2>&1 | |
| To get a log to troubleshoot connectivity issues with the Puppet Server, run: | |
| $ puppet agent -t -d --http_debug --trace > puppet_output.txt 2>&1 |
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