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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Cookbook

By : Jakub Gaj, Leemans
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Book Image

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Cookbook

5 (1)
By: Jakub Gaj, Leemans

Overview of this book

Dominating the server market, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system gives you the support you need to modernize your infrastructure and boost your organization’s efficiency. Combining both stability and flexibility, RHEL helps you meet the challenges of today and adapt to the demands of tomorrow. This practical Cookbook guide will help you get to grips with RHEL 7 Server and automating its installation. Designed to provide targeted assistance through hands-on recipe guidance, it will introduce you to everything you need to know about KVM guests and deploying multiple standardized RHEL systems effortlessly. Get practical reference advice that will make complex networks setups look like child’s play, and dive into in-depth coverage of configuring a RHEL system. Also including full recipe coverage of how to set up, configuring, and troubleshoot SELinux, you’ll also discover how secure your operating system, as well as how to monitor it.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Index

Installing and configuring Puppet Master


The people at Puppet Labs have their own repository servers for puppet, which is very easy when it comes down to installing and maintaining the server and agent. Although the EPEL repository also provides puppet packages, they tend to be old or not up to date. Hence, I recommend using the Puppet Labs' yum repositories.

How to do it…

This recipe covers a monolithic install. Perform the following steps:

  1. Enable the optional channel via the following command; you'll need this to install the Puppet Server component:

    ~]# subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
    
  2. Download the puppetlabs repository installer, as follows:

    ~]# curl -Lo /tmp/puppetlabs-release-el-7.noarch.rpm https://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-el-7.noarch.rpm
    
  3. Now, install the puppetlabs repository by executing the following:

    ~]# yum install -y /tmp/puppetlabs-release-el-7.noarch.rpm
    
  4. Install puppet-server by typing out this command:

    ~]# yum install -y puppet-server...