Installing Puppet Open-Source on CentOS 5.8
I recently started playing around with Puppet to manage my current infrastructure of a plethora of linux flavors. After an evaluation using Puppet-Enterprise I was told to see what I could do with the Open Source version. As Puppet-Enterprise is pretty much a ‘no brainer’ install, the open-source version is a different animal.
I’ve had several attempts at installing the Open Source version of Puppet and getting it enterprise ready. Below are my notes on it’s installation:
First, I started with a clean install of CentOS 5.8. I disable selinux but not the firewall. Then did a ‘sudo yum update’ to bring it up to date.
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