May 2017
Beginner
268 pages
6h 1m
English
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The bootstrap process
In order to prepare a new node for Puppet management using the demo repo, we need to do a number of things:
- Install Puppet
- Clone the Git repo
- Run Puppet for the first time
In Chapter 3, Managing your Puppet code with Git, we performed these steps manually, but the demo repo automates this process (usually known as bootstrap). Here is the bootstrap script (scripts/bootstrap.sh):
#!/bin/bash PUPPET_REPO=$1 HOSTNAME=$2 BRANCH=$3 if [ "$#" -ne 3 ]; then echo "Usage: $0 PUPPET_REPO HOSTNAME BRANCH" exit 1 fi hostname ${HOSTNAME} echo ${HOSTNAME} >/etc/hostnametch-keys http://apt.puppetlabs.com/DEB-GPG-KEY-puppet wget http://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-pc1-${DISTRIB_CODENAME}.deb dpkg -i puppetlabs-release-pc1-${DISTRIB_CODENAME}.deb ...Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
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