Chapter 1. Installing Puppet Server and Foreman
Puppet is a configuration management software that allows the defining and enforcing of the desired state across your nodes and keeps them in this desired state. Nodes are the clients and servers that are connected to and managed by Puppet. Puppet supports both Linux and Windows environments. Also, it is available both commercially and in open source. In this book, we will deal only with the open source version.
However, you may also want to use or give Puppet Enterprise a go, which is the commercial solution. There is a virtual appliance available to download on the Puppet website https://puppetlabs.com/download-learning-vm. You can download and test it. It supports up to ten nodes for free. Of course, ...
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