Bootstrapping Puppet with bash

Previous versions of this book used Rakefiles to bootstrap Puppet. The problem with using Rake to configure a node is that you are running the commands from your laptop; you assume you already have ssh access to the machine. Most bootstrap processes work by issuing an easy-to-remember command from a node once it has been provisioned. In this section, we'll show you how to use bash to bootstrap Puppet with a web server and a bootstrap script.

Getting ready

Install httpd on a centrally accessible server and create a password-protected area to store the bootstrap script. In my example, I'll use the Git server I set up previously, git.example.com. Start by creating a directory in the root of your web server:

root@git:~# puppet resource package apache2 ensure=installed
Notice: /Package[apache2]/ensure: created
package { 'apache2':
 ensure => '2.4.25-3+deb9u3',
}
root@git:~# cd /var/www/html
root@git:/var/www/html# mkdir bootstrap

Note

My git node is a Debian-based...