puppet-configuration

Configure Puppet

In order to configure puppet agent on Application Nodes, follow the below steps:

• 1.Install the Puppet agent package (puppet) on all Application Nodes.
  sudo apt-get install puppet
• 2.Get the puppet master IP from DevOps management console.

  

  Puppet Master
• 3.Get the puppet master’s Hostname where Puppet master’s hostname is like “DevOpsSetupname-puppet”.
• For example: If DevOps Setup name is “SampleDevOps” , then puppet hostname will be “SampleDevOps-puppet”.
• 4.Open /etc/hosts file on Application Node and make an hostname entry for puppet server with IP as shown below:
  xxx.xyz.xyx.xx     puppetServerName

  where xxx.xyz.xyx.xx is the IP of the puppet master and puppetServerName is the hostname of puppet Server.

• 5.Open /etc/default/puppet file on Application Node and make “START = yes”.
  # Start puppet on boot?
  START=yes
• 6.Start the puppet agent and make sure it is running.
  root@AgentNode:~# /etc/init.d/puppet start
  
  * Starting puppet agent [ OK ]
• 7.Execute the following command to request a certificate.
  puppetd --server puppetmasterhostname --waitforcert 60 --test
• 8.Sign the application nodes from the puppet master server on DevOps Management console. Provide the puppet agent “Host Name” and “IP” and click on Submit.

  

  Sign in Application Node