Puppet

Puppet (2005) is an open-core software configuration management tool available since 2005. It runs on many Unix-like systems as well as on Microsoft Windows, and includes its own declarative language to describe system configuration.

Installation

• MacOs: brew install --cask puppetry
• Ubuntu: apt install puppet

Commands

• facter
• puppet apply
• puppet agent --test
• puppet agent -t
• puppet agent -tv
• puppet apply file.pp
• puppet apply --test
• puppet module install puppetlabs-apache
• puppet cert list
• puppet cert sign mycertname

Example puppet file

my_first_puppet_example.pp

file {'/tmp/my-example-ip':                                           
  content => "hello world!",  
}

puppet apply my_first_puppet_example.pp

my_second_example.pp

file {'/tmp/my-example-ip':                                            # resource type file and filename
  ensure  => present,                                               # make sure it exists
  mode    => '0644',                                                # file permissions
  content => "My Public IP Address is: ${ipaddress_eth0}.\n",  # note the ipaddress_eth0 fact
}

See also Ansible lineinfile module

Activities

1. Read Puppet release notes: https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/release_notes_puppet.html
2. Read Puppet source code: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet
3. Read https://blog.csanchez.org/2012/03/22/introduction-to-puppet/

Related terms

• Puppet manifests: /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp
• Puppet modules: Puppet Forge, puppet module install
• bolt plan run
• bolt (2018?) open source orchestration tool and agentless task runner.
• Matt Waxman
• ARA
• Puppet Enterprise
• Puppetfile
• Ruby, Clojure

See also

• Bolt, Bolt project, bolt command run, bolt task run facts, bolt project init, bolt --help
• Puppet, bolt, Hiera, facter, puppet apply, puppet agent, puppet module, puppet cert list, puppet cert sign mycertname
• Configuration management: Chef, cdist, capistrano, Ansible, puppet, SaltStack
• IaC: Terraform, Chef, cdist, capistrano, Harrow, puppet, Ansible, CFEngine, Cloud Deployment Manager, pulumi, juju, SaltStack, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Google Deployment Manager, AWS CloudFormation, Pulumi, Heat, Spacelift, Oracle Cloud Resource Manager, KICS, Troposphere