Puppet - Installation

Puppet works on the client server architecture, wherein we call the server as the Puppet master and the client as the Puppet node. This setup is achieved by installing Puppet on both the client and well as on all the server machines.

For most of the platforms, Puppet can be installed via the package manager of choice. However, for few platforms it can be done by installing the tarball or RubyGems.

Prerequisites

Factor is the only pre-requisite that does not come along with Ohai which is present in Chef.

Standard OS Library

We need to have standard set of library of any underlying OS. Remaining all the system comes along with Ruby 1.8.2 + versions. Following is the list of library items, which an OS should consist of.

  • base64
  • cgi
  • digest/md5
  • etc
  • fileutils
  • ipaddr
  • openssl
  • strscan
  • syslog
  • uri
  • webrick
  • webrick/https
  • xmlrpc

Facter Installation

As discussed, the facter does not come along with the standard edition of Ruby. So, in order to get the facter in the target system one needs to install it manually from the source as the facter library is a pre-requisite of Puppet.

This package is available for multiple platforms however just to be on the safer side it can be installed using tarball, which helps in getting the latest version.

First, download the tarball from the official site of Puppet using the wget utility.

$ wget http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/facter/facter-latest.tgz  ------: 1

Next, un-tar the tar file. Get inside the untarred directory using the CD command. Finally, install the facter using install.rb file present inside the facter directory.

$ gzip -d -c facter-latest.tgz | tar xf - -----: 2 
$ cd facter-* ------: 3 
$ sudo ruby install.rb # or become root and run install.rb -----:4

Installing Puppet from the Source

First, install the Puppet tarball from the Puppet site using wget. Then, extract the tarball to a target location. Move inside the created directory using the CD command. Using install.rb file, install Puppet on the underlying server.

# get the latest tarball 
$ wget http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-latest.tgz -----: 1

# untar and install it 
$ gzip -d -c puppet-latest.tgz | tar xf - ----: 2 
$ cd puppet-* ------: 3 
$ sudo ruby install.rb # or become root and run install.rb -------: 4

Installing Puppet and Facter Using Ruby Gem

# Installing Facter 
$ wget http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/gems/facter-1.5.7.gem 
$ sudo gem install facter-1.5.7.gem

# Installing Puppet 
$ wget http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/gems/puppet-0.25.1.gem 
$ sudo gem install puppet-0.25.1.gem
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