December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
250 pages
4h 41m
English
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).
The Puppet agent can be installed and maintained using the same repository as the Puppet server: the Puppet Labs repository. Perform the following steps:
~]# curl -Lo /tmp/puppetlabs-release-el-7.noarch.rpm https://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-el-7.noarch.rpm
~]# yum install -y /tmp/puppetlabs-release-el-7.noarch.rpm ...