Setting up the environment

Environments in Puppet are directories holding different versions of your Puppet manifests. Whenever a node connects to a Puppet master, it informs the Puppet master of its environment. By default, all nodes report to the production environment. This causes the Puppet master to look in the production environment for manifests. You may specify an alternate environment with the--environmentsetting when running puppet agent or by settingenvironment = newenvironmentin/etc/puppet/puppet.conf in the agent section.

Getting ready

Verify environmentpath in your installation with the following puppet config command:

[vagrant@puppet ~]$ sudo /opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet config print environmentpath
/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments

How to do it...

The steps are as follows:

1. Create a production directory at /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments that contains both a modules and manifests directory. Then, create a site.pp that creates a file in /tmp, as follows:

[vagrant@puppet ~]$ sudo mkdir...