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Puppet is a configuration management tool (Unix & Windows) with its own Domain Specific Language (Puppet or Ruby DSL). Puppetmaster is the central server for this tool.

Puppet is a configuration management tool (Unix & Windows) with its own Domain Specific Language (Puppet or Ruby DSL). Puppetmaster is the central server for this tool.

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Missing Puppet.conf

I'm configuring a puppet master server for the first time. I've completed the Pre-install Tasks I'm now working on the post-install tasks The Puppet documentation indicates that before starting the Server, you should perform several edits to the…
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The Foreman Provisioning Preseed default finish wget erroring

im new to foreman and puppet. I'm not sure what I changed but now my provisioning templates aren't running. Ubuntu installation fails with exit code 8 with the following screen: i found out that URL is defined in the Preseed default…
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puppet cert list -all: Error: header too long

I tried restarting my puppet master but the error still persists. Also see it from all the puppet agents that try to join. puppet agent --server puppet.example.com --waitforcert 60 --test --verbose Error: Could not request certificate: Error 400 on…
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puppet: how to submit command "yum update" to all agents?

I'm new to puppet and trying to create manifest which will request all agents to update all currently installed yum packages. What should be the best way to describe this in manifest?
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Puppet reporting without master

I am planning a Puppet infrastructure for about 100-200 servers. This is the design so far: Stash (git) for storing puppet config (not planning on using a master). Hiera to query either yaml, json, or possibly couchdb for sensitive (passwords)…
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Puppet client caching but not updating local facts

I have a server pmaster-dev that is a puppet client (its master is pmaster). The server pmaster-dev itself acts as a puppet master for several clients. When pmaster-dev checks in with pmaster it is caching its facts to a local sqlite3 database file…
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Puppet claims to be unable to resolve domains even if domain properly resolves

I have a fairly simple puppet setup, one master and one node, both running Debian Squeeze 6.0.4. I have DNS entries for the two machines, client and master respectively. Both client and master's DNS entries resolve correctly on both machines to the…
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Differences between local 'puppet apply' and 'puppet agent' to a puppetmaster

We're in the process of migrating away from a monolithic puppet repository that contains all of the config. This one repo contains things that really shouldn't be on every node ever, so a puppetmaster-based system seems the best way to appropriately…
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How do you use a variable in a Puppet Manifest?

I am using the WSUS Module with Puppet Master on Centos 7.2. My Puppet Agent servers are running Windows Server 2012. I want to use a manifest with a variable. However, when the Puppet Agent server has the puppet agent run, it displays "error 400,…
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What services do I have to restart to effect config changes in puppet.conf when using foreman?

I have puppet 3.8.4 installed via the latest foreman installer. I enabled the $facts['fact_name'] hash by putting these lines in my puppet.conf: trusted_node_data = true trusted_server_facts = true I restarted some services to try to affect the…
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Can't run puppet device (Could not request certificate: Could not write to... privatekeydir)

I setup puppet 4.3 on a Centos 7 server. This is a puppet master that is also running puppet agent. I am attempting to setup Puppet Device to configure a router. when I attempt to run puppet device I see this error: sudo puppet device…
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Using puppet to configure puppet master

I'm starting to use puppet and in configuring the puppet master I feel I'd like puppet to maintain that host as well. What's curious is that I see no recommendation or even much discussion for or against, which has me wondering if there's a…
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Understanding packets dropped by iptables from puppetmaster

I am seeing packets getting dropped during my puppet client runs on a semi regular basis. And I do not understand what is causing this. I should mention that Puppet is managing the firewall rules via puppetlabs/firewall module. But the rules do…
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how to open port 80 on box managed with Puppet

I have a puppet master virtual machine that manages almost 20 nodes. I have Nagios installed on one of these nodes and in order for the Nagios GUI to work I would need to stop the iptables on that nagios box. The problem is that whenever Puppet runs…
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Why would Puppet revoke a client's certificate?

We started getting an error from one of the Puppet-agents: Could not send report: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read finished A: sslv3 alert certificate revoked Indeed, according to puppet cert list $h on the server, the certificate…
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