Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this video we'll install a Puppet server on a Rocky Linux 8.5 Vagrant box as an alternative to CentOS or RedHat Enterprise Linux.
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Timestamp:
0:00 Intro
0:18 Puppet basics
0:51 Why Rocky Linux?
1:10 Install Rocky Linux VM with Vagrant
1:55 Login as root
2:10 Install Git for version control
2:29 Add Puppet repo with RPM
2:36 Install Puppet server package
2:51 Reduce memory allocation
3:15 Start/enable Puppet server services
3:29 Configure Puppet agent
4:02 Lookup hostname
4:15 Add path for Ruby and Gem
4:59 Gem install r10k
5:12 Puppet agent test
5:43 Connect to GitHub

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Used links and commands:
app.vagrantup.com/boxes/search

vagrantfile:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.box = "generic/rocky8"
config.vm.hostname = "master.puppet.vm"
end

vagrant init generic/rocky8
vagrant up
vagrant ssh

hostnamectl
sudo su -
dnf install -y git
rpm -Uvh yum.puppet.com/puppet7-release-el-8.noarch.rpm
dnf install -y puppetserver
vim /etc/sysconfig/puppetserver
systemctl start puppetserver
systemctl status puppetserver
systemctl enable puppetserver
vim /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/puppet.conf

[agent]
server = master.puppet.vm

echo $HOSTNAME
cat /etc/hosts

vim ~/.bash_profile
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin

sudo reboot
ruby --version
gem --version

gem install r10k
puppet agent -t