DevOps: Puppet, Docker, and Kubernetes

Creating a manifest

If you already have some Puppet code (known as a Puppet manifest), you can skip this section and go on to the next. If not, we'll see how to create and apply a simple manifest.

How to do it...

To create and apply a simple manifest, follow these steps:

1. First, install Puppet locally on your machine or create a virtual machine and install Puppet on that machine. For YUM-based systems, use https://yum.puppetlabs.com/ and for APT-based systems, use https://apt.puppetlabs.com/. You may also use gem to install Puppet. For our examples, we'll install Puppet using gem on a Debian Wheezy system (hostname: cookbook). To use gem, we need the rubygems package as follows:

   t@cookbook:~$ sudo apt-get install rubygems
   Reading package lists... ...