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released Feb 12th 2020
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Manually install this module globally with Puppet module tool:

puppet module install theforeman-puppet --version 13.0.0

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Tags: foreman, puppet, puppetserver, puppet-server

Documentation

theforeman/puppet — version 13.0.0 Feb 12th 2020

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Puppet module for installing the Puppet agent and master

Installs and configures the Puppet agent and optionally a Puppet master (when server is true). Part of the Foreman installer or to be used as a Puppet module.

When using Puppet Server (version 5.3.6 is the lowest version, this module supports), the module supports and assumes you will be installing the latest version. If you know you'll be installing an earlier or specific version, you will need to override server_puppetserver_version. More information in the Puppet Server section below.

Many puppet.conf options for agents, masters and other are parameterized, with class documentation provided at the top of the manifests. In addition, there are hash parameters for each configuration section that can be used to supply any options that are not explicitly supported.

Environments support

The module helps configure Puppet environments using directory environments. These are set up under /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments.

Git repo support

Environments can be backed by git by setting server_git_repo to true, which sets up /var/lib/puppet/puppet.git where each branch maps to one environment. Avoid using 'master' as this name isn't permitted. On each push to the repo, a hook updates /etc/puppet/environments with the contents of the branch.

Requires theforeman/git.

Foreman integration

With the 3.0.0 release the Foreman integration became optional. It will still by default install the Foreman integration when server is true, so if you wish to run a Puppet master without Foreman, it can be disabled by setting server_foreman to false.

Requires theforeman/foreman.

PuppetDB integration

The Puppet master can be configured to export catalogs and reports to a PuppetDB instance, using the puppetlabs/puppetdb module. Use its puppetdb::server class to install the PuppetDB server and this module to configure the Puppet master to connect to PuppetDB.

Requires puppetlabs/puppetdb

Please see the notes about using puppetlabs/puppetdb 5.x with older versions of Puppet (< 4.x) and PuppetDB (< 3.x) with newer releases of the module and set the values via hiera or an extra include of puppetdb::globals with puppetdb_version defined.

Please also make sure your puppetdb ciphers are compatible with your puppet server ciphers, ie that the two following parameters match:

puppet::server::cipher_suites
puppetdb::server::cipher_suites

Installation

Available from GitHub (via cloning or tarball), Puppet Forge or as part of the Foreman installer.

Usage

As a parameterized class, all the configurable options can be overridden from your wrapper classes or even your ENC (if it supports param classes). For example:

# Agent and cron (or daemon):
class { '::puppet': runmode => 'cron' }

# Agent and puppetmaster:
class { '::puppet': server => true }

# You want to use git?
class { '::puppet':
  server          => true
  server_git_repo => true
}

# Maybe you're using gitolite, new hooks, and a different port?
class { '::puppet':
  server                   => true
  server_port              => 8141,
  server_git_repo          => true,
  server_git_repo_path     => '/var/lib/gitolite/repositories/puppet.git',
  server_post_hook_name    => 'post-receive.puppet',
  server_post_hook_content => 'puppetserver/post-hook.puppet',
}

# Configure master without Foreman integration
class { '::puppet':
  server                => true,
  server_foreman        => false,
  server_reports        => 'store',
  server_external_nodes => '',
}

# Want to integrate with an existing PuppetDB?
class { '::puppet':
  server                      => true,
  server_puppetdb_host        => 'mypuppetdb.example.com',
  server_reports              => 'puppetdb,foreman',
  server_storeconfigs_backend => 'puppetdb',
}

Look in init.pp for what can be configured this way, see Contributing if anything doesn't work.

To use this in standalone mode, edit a file (e.g. install.pp), put in a class resource, as per the examples above, and the execute puppet apply e.g:

cat > install.pp <<EOF
class { '::puppet': server => true }
EOF
puppet apply install.pp --modulepath /path_to/extracted_tarball

Advanced scenarios

An HTTP (non-SSL) puppetmaster instance can be set up (standalone or in addition to the SSL instance) by setting the server_http parameter to true. This is useful for reverse proxy or load balancer scenarios where the proxy/load balancer takes care of SSL termination. The HTTP puppetmaster instance expects the X-Client-Verify, X-SSL-Client-DN and X-SSL-Subject HTTP headers to have been set on the front end server.

The listening port can be configured by setting server_http_port (which defaults to 8139).

For puppetserver, this HTTP instance accepts ALL connections and no further restrictions can be configured.

Note that running an HTTP puppetmaster is a huge security risk when improperly configured. Allowed hosts should be tightly controlled; anyone with access to an allowed host can access all client catalogues and client certificates.

# Configure an HTTP puppetmaster vhost in addition to the standard SSL vhost
class { '::puppet':
  server               => true,
  server_http          => true,
  server_http_port     => 8130, # default: 8139
}

Puppet Server configuration

Puppet Server requires slightly different configuration between different versions, which this module supports. It's recommended that you set the server_puppetserver_version parameter to the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH version you have installed. By default the module will configure for the latest version available.

Soft Dependencies

If you use a OS which uses systemd you may consider to download camptocamp/systemd module for compatibility. It is only needed if you use the puppetserver feature.

Contributing

  • Fork the project
  • Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution

More info

See https://theforeman.org or at #theforeman irc channel on freenode

Copyright (c) 2010-2012 Ohad Levy

This program and entire repository is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.