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Troubleshooting Puppet
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Troubleshooting Puppet

by Thomas Uphill
August 2015
Intermediate to advanced
144 pages
2h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Puppet configuration

Configuration of both the Puppet master and the agents (nodes) is done with the same configuration file, puppet.conf. This file is located in different directories, which depend on the version of Puppet that you are running—the open source version, or the commercial version, Puppet Enterprise. The different locations are summarized in the following table:

Operating system

Open source version

Puppet Enterprise

Linux/Mac OS X

/etc/puppet/puppet.conf

/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/puppet.conf

Windows*

%PROGRAMDATA%\PuppetLabs\puppet\etc\puppet\puppet.conf

*Windows 2003 has a different location.

You may also override the name and location of this file with the config_file_name and config options respectively. The puppet.conf ...

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ISBN: 9781784398651