Technical requirements

Clone the control repository from https://github.com/puppetlabs/control-repo to your GitHub account (controlrepo-chapter13) and update the following files in this repository:

• Puppetfile with https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Puppet-8-for-DevOps-Engineers/blob/main/ch13/Puppetfile
• hiera.yaml with https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Puppet-8-for-DevOps-Engineers/blob/main/ch13/hiera.yaml
• manifests/site.pp with https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Puppet-8-for-DevOps-Engineers/blob/main/ch13/site.pp

Build a large cluster with three compilers and three clients by downloading the params.json file from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Puppet-8-for-DevOps-Engineers/blob/main/ch13/params.json and update it with the location of your control repository and your SSH key for the control repository. Then, run the following command from your pecdm directory:

bolt --verbose plan run pecdm::provision --params @params.json

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