Installation and configuration
Puppet uses a client-server paradigm. Clients (also called agents) are installed on all the systems to be managed; the server(s) (also called the Master) is installed on a central machine(s) from where we control the whole infrastructure.
We can find Puppet's packages on the most recent OS, either in the default repositories on in the additional ones (for example, EPEL for Red Hat derivatives).
The client package is generally called puppet, so the installation is a matter of typing something like the following:
apt-get install puppet # On Debian derivatives
yum install puppet # On Red Hat derivatives
To install the server components, we can run the following command:
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