Skip to Content
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Cookbook
book

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Cookbook

by William Leemans
December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
250 pages
4h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Cookbook

Installing and configuring the Puppet agent

Unlike Ansible, Puppet requires an agent to be able to enforce configurations. This recipe will teach you how to install and configure the puppet agent on a system. The only way to mass deploy the Puppet agent is through an orchestration tool (such as Ansible).

How to do it…

The Puppet agent can be installed and maintained using the same repository as the Puppet server: the Puppet Labs repository. Perform the following steps:

  1. Download the Puppet Labs repository installer via the following command:
    ~]# curl -Lo /tmp/puppetlabs-release-el-7.noarch.rpm https://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-el-7.noarch.rpm
    
  2. Install the Puppet Labs repository by executing the following command:
    ~]# yum install -y /tmp/puppetlabs-release-el-7.noarch.rpm ...
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,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

CentOS 7 Server Deployment Cookbook

CentOS 7 Server Deployment Cookbook

Timothy Boronczyk

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781784392017