Puppet Agent install and configuration on CentOS/Redhat

1. Download the puppet agent from http://puppet.com
      or go directly to https://puppet.com/download-puppet-enterprise/thank-you

2. Upload the rpm file to the server and run

     rpm -ivh puppet-agent<version>.rpm

Note: Here I am using Centos 6.5 -  64bits OS


3. Configure puppet agent to point to the master server.
 3.1   Open the file /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/puppet.conf and add the following entires


[main]
certname = puppetclient1.com
server = puppetmaster.com
environment = production
runinterval = 1h


3.2 Run puppet agent -t from the client






3.3 Accept the client cert from the Puppet master server

Installing Puppet Enterprise on Linux server

Installing Puppet Enterprise on Linux server

1.  Go to https://puppet.com/ and download the .tar.gz Puppet enterprise master and Agent installation      files.

2.  Upload the puppet-enterprise tar.gz file to the Puppet Master Server.
     Here we are using a server installed with CentOS

3. untar the installation file





4. Now we will start the  Puppet Enterprise Master installation.
 Go to the folder and run the installer file puppet-enterprise-installer

Note:  if you are not using a DNS server, add the entries for the IP address and hostname in the /etc/hosts files





5.  Press 'Y' to continue installation




6. As shown in the above pic, open a browser and go to the url mentioned.
     Here we are opening https://puppetmaster:3000
    Click "Let's get started!"  to continue the installation.

Note: If you are accessing GUI from a different desktop/server make sure that the port 3000 and 443 ( for later use ) is open between them






7. Choose your deployment mode.
   Since my environment is less than 7000 nodes,  I am using only 1 master server, I am going with Monolithic.




8. Enter the puppet master FQDN and Puppet master DNS alias.

Note: if you don't have a DNS server, make sure that these entries are added to /etc/hosts file




9.  Enable Application Orchestration




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10.1  Select the database support needed.
        Here I am selecting the option to install the PostgresSQL and to create PuppetDB database on it      during the installation.
 10.2 Enter the admin password, this is need to login to the Enterprise GUI console after installation.




11. Confirm the plan and click "continue"






11.  If there are no messages in red color, click "Deploy now".




12. Now the Puppet entries is getting installed.




13. After installation you can login to the Puppet Enterprise GUI using https://puppetmaster url and user name as admin and password  given in step 10.2

Vagrant - running a vagrant box in windows 7

Vagrant  - running a box in windows 7

1.  Download and install virtual box from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
     and start up the virtual box.

2. Download and install vagrant from  http://downloads.vagrantup.com/

I had my vagrant installed in the location C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant.
And added C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\;C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\bin to windows environment path.




3.  Also install putty from http://www.putty.org/   for SSH access to the box






4.  I had issues installing the box image using vagrant command, through internet. So I downloaded them and copied them and initiated it locally.

For this I created a project location C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\Projects\VM

And I downloaded the box file or copied the box file from the url http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid32.box to the default box file location %userprofile%\.vagrant.d\boxes


5.  Add the downloaded box.
For this open the windows command prompt as administrator and add the box to vagrant list using command,

> vagrant box add lucid32 %userprofile%\.vagrant.d\boxes\lucid32.box --provider virtualbox


  note : replace %userprofile% with the location to .vagrant.d folder





6.   Go to the project location C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\Projects\VM and run the command

> vagrant init lucid32

it will create a vagrant configuration file in the current project location




7. Now start up the VM using the box image lucid32 by running the command

> vagrant up





 8.  To get the ssh details run the command,

> vagrant ssh-config



9. Use the details got from the step 8 to ssh login using putty.

 username : vagrant
 password: vagrant





Now you are in the vm.