Puppet Bootstrap Scripts
This repository contains a multitude of single file scripts for setting
up Puppet on a variety
of machines.
Puppet is fantastic for managing infrastructure but there is a chicken/egg problem
of getting Puppet initially installed on a machine so that Puppet can then
take over for the remainder of system setup. This repository contains small scripts
to bootstrap your system just enough so that Puppet can then take over.
Please contribute by forking and sending a pull request for your
operating system.
The goal of this repository is to create a set of scripts that run
on every version of every platform to set up Puppet.
Features of Each Script
- Requires no parameters and runs without any human input, but can
optionally take parameters to tune the packages the install and such. See
each script for details on the parameters. - Uses only built-in software to install Puppet. These scripts
have no external dependencies over the base install of their OS. - Installs Puppet agent and Facter.
- Does not auto-start the Puppet agent service on the machine. Your
bootstrap can choose to do this in addition to these scripts, if you'd
like.
Using a Script
To use one of the scripts in this repository, you can either download the
script directly from this repository as part of your machine setup process,
or copy the contents of the script you need to your own location and use that.
The latter is recommended since it then doesn't rely on GitHub uptime and
is generally more secure.
If you do choose to download directly from this repository, make sure
you link to a specific commit (and not master), so that the file
contents don't change on you unexpectedly.
Contributing
Fork and pull request. Simple.