Puppet installation and management

Installing a Puppet Master (SLC6)

System preparation

• A fully patched SLC6 host
• Fix needed: SELinux disabled

# setenforce 0

• Configure the following PuppetLab and EPEL testing repo:

[puppetlabs]
name=Puppet Labs Packages
baseurl=http://yum.puppetlabs.com/base/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://yum.puppetlabs.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-reductive


[epel-testing]
name=UNSUPPORTED: Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux add-ons, no formal support from CERN
baseurl=http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/epel/testing/6/$basearch
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
protect=0

Packages installation and configuration

• Install the Puppet Master package:

yum install puppet-server

• Open TCP/8140, TCP/443, TCP/80:

-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 8140 -j ACCEPT

-- RomainWartel - 13-May-2011