In this tutorial, we will walk through the steps of installing Puppet on OpenBSD. Puppet is a configuration management tool that allows you to automate repetitive system administration tasks.
Before we begin, make sure that you have:
Puppet requires some external dependencies to function properly. To install them, run the following command:
# pkg_add ruby puppet
This command will install both Ruby and Puppet.
Now that we have installed Puppet, we need to configure it. Puppet uses a configuration file located at /etc/puppet/puppet.conf. If this file does not exist, create it using the following command:
# touch /etc/puppet/puppet.conf
Next, open the configuration file in a text editor:
# vi /etc/puppet/puppet.conf
Add the following text to the file:
[main]
logdir=/var/log/puppet
rundir=/var/run/puppet
ssldir=/etc/puppet/ssl
server=puppet.example.com
[agent]
certname=client.example.com
environment=production
server=puppet.example.com
Note that you will need to replace puppet.example.com and client.example.com with your own hostnames.
To ensure that Puppet starts at boot time, we need to enable it in /etc/rc.conf. Append the following line to the file:
puppet_enable=YES
Now that we have installed and configured Puppet, we can start the service using the following command:
# /etc/rc.d/puppet start
You should see some output indicating that the service has started successfully.
In this tutorial, we have walked through the steps of installing Puppet on OpenBSD. With Puppet, you can now automate repetitive system administration tasks, saving you time and effort.
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