Learning Puppet 4

Chapter 20. Creating a Puppet Master

This chapter will cover installing and tuning the well-known Puppet master Rack application.

At this point, we’re going to spin up another virtual machine. You should open a new Terminal window, or add a new tab on your existing terminal for this virtual machine. This will allow you to switch back and forth between the machines, which is necessary in this chapter.

Starting the puppetmaster VM

In the new Terminal window, move into the directory where you checked out the learning-puppet4 Git repository. Start up the puppetmaster instance just like we did the client instance at the beginning of the book:

~$ cd learning-puppet4
learning-puppet4$ vagrant up puppetmaster
Bringing machine 'puppetmaster' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> puppetmaster: Importing base box 'puppetlabs/centos-7.2-64-nocm'...
==> puppetmaster: Matching MAC address for NAT networking...
==> puppetmaster: Checking if box 'puppetlabs/centos-7.2-64-nocm' is up to date.
==> puppetmaster: Setting the name of the VM: learning-puppet4_puppetmaster_1437
...snip...
==> puppetmaster: Machine booted and ready!

Now that it is running, log in and get started:

learning-puppet4$ vagrant ssh puppetmaster
[vagrant@puppetmaster ~]$ 

Installing the Puppet Master

The Puppet master is included in the Puppet agent all-in-one (AIO) package. Install the puppet-agent package exactly as you did on the client instance. You can refer back to Part I for the installation instructions, or simply ...