puppet Getting started with puppet Installation
Example
System Requirements
However, the Puppet master service is fairly resource intensive, and should be installed on a robust dedicated server.
- At a minimum, your Puppet master server should have two processor cores and at least 1 GB of RAM.
- To comfortably serve at least 1,000 nodes, it should have 2-4 processor cores and at least 4 GB of RAM.
Check your network configuration:
In an agent/master deployment, you must prepare your network for Puppet’s traffic.
- Firewalls: The Puppet master server must allow incoming connections on port 8140, and agent nodes must be able to connect to the master on that port.
- Name resolution: Every node must have a unique hostname. Forward and reverse DNS must both be configured correctly.
Note: The default Puppet master hostname is puppet. Your agent nodes can be ready sooner if this hostname resolves to your Puppet master.
The time must be set accurately on the Puppet master server that will be acting as the certificate authority. You should probably use NTP.
Installing Puppet Server
Puppet provides official packages that install Puppet Server 2.4 and all of its prerequisites on the following platforms.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Enterprise Linux 6
- Enterprise Linux 7
Debian
- Debian 7 (Wheezy)
- Debian 8 (Jessie)
Ubuntu
- Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise)
- Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty)
- Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily)
- Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial)
Enable the Puppet package repositories
Enterprise Linux 7
sudo rpm -Uvh https://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-pc1-el-7.noarch.rpm
Installing puppet master
yum install puppetserver
or
apt-get install puppetserver
Puppet Server is configured to use 2 GB of RAM by default. To change look here
Start the Puppet Server service:
systemctl start puppetserver
or
service puppetserver start
