Getting started with Puppet

When you simply want to get to know Puppet, follow puppetlabs’ Learning Puppet Docs Show archive.org snapshot . They give you a handy introduction inside a virtual machine they provide. You can watch the talk by Garrett Honeycutt 'Expanded Introduction to Puppet' Show archive.org snapshot .

Do not miss their cheatsheat Show archive.org snapshot and their learn-puppet virtual machine Show archive.org snapshot .

#Installation and basic configuration

• on Ubuntu Linux: sudo apt-get install puppet, then follow this guide Show archive.org snapshot starting at "Creating a Puppet configuration"
• on Mac OS X: sudo gem install puppet, then follow these instructions Show archive.org snapshot starting at step 5 (replace the http with https in the Gist link).
• connect the clients (aka agents) to the server (aka puppetmaster) following these instructions Show archive.org snapshot
• add pluginsync = true to the [main] section of puppet.conf on the clients and the server

#Important

• sudo all the time! If you connect an agent to the puppetmaster once without using sudo and later try to connect using sudo, you won’t be able because the certificate does not match the private key. Delete all certificates for this agent on the puppetmaster and remove the agent’s ~/.puppet/ssh; now connect again using sudo.