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Puppet Cookbook - Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Thomas Uphill, John Arundel
Book Image

Puppet Cookbook - Third Edition - Third Edition

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.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
11
Index

Bootstrapping Puppet with bash


Previous versions of this book used Rakefiles to bootstrap Puppet. The problem with using Rake to configure a node is that you are running the commands from your laptop; you assume you already have ssh access to the machine. Most bootstrap processes work by issuing an easy to remember command from a node once it has been provisioned. In this section, we'll show how to use bash to bootstrap Puppet with a web server and a bootstrap script.

Getting ready

Install httpd on a centrally accessible server and create a password protected area to store the bootstrap script. In my example, I'll use the Git server I set up previously, git.example.com. Start by creating a directory in the root of your web server:

# cd /var/www/html
# mkdir bootstrap

Now perform the following steps:

  1. Add the following location definition to your apache configuration:

    <Location /bootstrap>
    AuthType basic
    AuthName "Bootstrap"
    AuthBasicProvider file
    AuthUserFile /var/www/puppet.passwd
    Require...