Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook

Provisioning nodes with a Puppetmaster

Vagrant is a powerful tool to create multiple virtual machines. Puppet is an equally powerful tool to manage multiple nodes. Let's create a second node to be provisioned entirely from the Puppetmaster started in the previous section.

1. Define a second node in the Vagrantfile. We'll make sure that this second node can access the Puppetmaster as Puppet by adding a fixed IP for the Puppetmaster and creating an /etc/hosts/ entry that allows our new node to access the Puppetmaster at the default address of Puppet. A complete Vagrantfile with both nodes looks like this:

   # -*- mode: ruby -*- # vi: set ft=ruby : # Vagrantfile API/syntax version. Don't touch unless you know what you're doing! VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = ...