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Puppet Cookbook - Third Edition

Puppet Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Thomas Uphill, John Arundel
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Puppet Cookbook - Third Edition

Puppet Cookbook - Third Edition

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By: Thomas Uphill, John Arundel

Overview of this book

This book is for anyone who builds and administers servers, especially in a web operations context. It requires some experience of Linux systems administration, including familiarity with the command line, file system, and text editing. No programming experience is required.
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Using librarian-puppet

When you begin to include modules from the forge in your Puppet infrastructure, keeping track of which versions you installed and ensuring consistency between all your testing areas can become a bit of a problem. Luckily, the tools we will discuss in the next two sections can bring order to your system. We will first begin with librarian-puppet, which uses a special configuration file named Puppetfile to specify the source location of your various modules.

Getting ready

We'll install librarian-puppet to work through the example.

Install librarian-puppet on your Puppet master, using Puppet of course:

root@puppet:~# puppet resource package librarian-puppet ensure=installed provider=gem
Notice: /Package[librarian-puppet]/ensure: created
package { 'librarian-puppet':
  ensure => ['2.0.0'],
}

Tip

If you are working in a masterless environment, install librarian-puppet on the machine from which you will be managing your code. Your gem install may...

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