Learning Puppet

This project helps in getting started with Learning Puppet by creating a Puppet agent/master environment.

The following Operating System releases and Puppet releases are supported.

Operating Systems	Puppet Release 3	Puppet Release 4
Ubuntu - Xenial 64		✅
Ubuntu - Trusty 64	✅	✅
Ubuntu - Precise 64	✅	✅

The Puppet agent/master environment is created as a Virtual environment. The Virtual Machines will be running in VirtualBox. For creating, starting, stopping or destroying these VM's Vagrant is used.

The Vagrantfile contains the description of the two virtual machines. The Puppet agent and Puppet master. These VM's are connected through a virtual network.

The Vagrant base-boxes are from the official Ubuntu at HasiCorp repository.

Prerequisites

The following tools should be installed for using thies getting started project. They are available for: OS-X, Linux and Windows.

Launch Puppet through Vagrant

Choose the Ubuntu Release

Open the file Vagrantfile for editing.
Remove the hash # for the Ubuntu release that should be used

TIP: Ubuntu Xenial only support Puppet 4. The Precise and Trusty support Puppet 3 and Puppet 4.

WARNING: Puppet 3 is end of life see the platform-support-lifecycle

#VM_BOX = "ubuntu/precise64"    # Supports Puppet v3 and v4
#VM_BOX = "ubuntu/trusty64"     # Supports Puppet v3 and v4
#VM_BOX = "ubuntu/xenial64"     # Supports Puppet v4 only

Choose Puppet v3 or v4

In the files agent.sh and master.sh is defined which Puppet version is used.

Puppet Agent Remove the hashes, for the version to install

Open the file agent.sh for editing.
Remove the hashes of the lines, under the Puppet release that should be used.

# Puppet 4
#wget https://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-pc1-trusty.deb
#dpkg -i puppetlabs-release-pc1-trusty.deb
#apt-get update
#apt-get install -y puppet-agent

# Puppet 3
#wget https://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-trusty.deb
#dpkg -i puppetlabs-release-trusty.deb
#apt-get update
#apt-get install -y puppet

Puppet Master Remove the hashes, for the version to install

Open the file master.sh for editing.
Remove the hashes of the lines, under the Puppet release that should be used.

# Puppet 4
#wget https://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-pc1-trusty.deb
#dpkg -i puppetlabs-release-pc1-trusty.deb

# Puppet 3
#wget https://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-trusty.deb
#dpkg -i puppetlabs-release-trusty.deb

apt-get update
apt-get install -y puppetserver

Creating / Starting / Stopping / Destroying the Puppet Agent and Master

Once the environment is launched, the files from this directory are synchronized with the Virtual Machines. In the VM they are located in /vagrant.

Launch the environment Installs and starts the agent and master as Virtual Machines

vagrant up

Stop the environment Stops the agent and master Virtual Machines.

vagrant halt

Remove the environment Stops the agent and master and removes the Virtual Machines.

vagrant destroy

Loggin into environment