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Puppet 5 Cookbook

You're reading from   Puppet 5 Cookbook Jump start your Puppet 5.x deployment using engaging and practical recipes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788622448
Length 394 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Thomas Uphill Thomas Uphill
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Puppet Language and Style FREE CHAPTER 2. Puppet Infrastructure 3. Writing Better Manifests 4. Working with Files and Packages 5. Users and Virtual Resources 6. Managing Resources and Files 7. Managing Applications 8. Servers and Cloud Infrastructure 9. External Tools and the Puppet Ecosystem 10. Monitoring, Reporting, and Troubleshooting 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

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...

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