Questions tagged [puppet]
Puppet is a cross-platform configuration management tool
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What's the difference between Juju and Puppet/Chef?
Have tried asking 3rd party about key differences between Juju and Puppet/Chef. 3rd parties are not too familiar with Juju and could not say. They simply stated the others have a lot of momentum, and ...
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How to change Gsettings via remote shell?
I need to automate desktop configuration via Puppet, virtual terminal or ssh.
Unfortunately, invocation of gsettings via ssh or virtual terminal gives:
gsettings set org.compiz.core:/org/compiz/...
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How to copy files to all machines using puppet master?
I have installed puppetmaster in ubuntu 11.04 and i have installed puppet in all my clients. I have joined all my puppet clients with puppet master. Is it possible to copy a file to all these puppet ...
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How to copy file to all clients using puppet?
How do I copy files to all clients using puppet? I have setup a puppet server and clients and I have tested the connection which was working fine. I am not a puppet expert, I am just a beginner, and I ...
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How can I manage and deploy snap packages without using the official Snap store from Canonical?
I was wondering if it would be possible to create and self-host a repository of snap packages which could then be deployed / updated via something like Puppet, Chef or Ansible. Is this feasible, or ...
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How do I install a puppetmaster?
I have a fairly large network, and I need to use some sort of configuration management tool to manage it. I've decided that Puppet Open Source meets my needs. How do I install it?
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How do I remove a user from the dpkg-statoverride file?
Tried to install a package after deleting some servers I no longer needed, and removing the deleted software package's users and groups. Went to fetch and install a new package, and got the following ...
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Is there a tool like Juju or Chef that I can use to automate the set up of my computer?
There are a lot of tools (chef, puppet, juju) out there to automate server deployments and set ups.
How can these be used for automating my laptop set up? I want to be able to do nothing but run a ...
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How to change the wallpaper of all clients using puppet?
I have set up puppet (Central Management Server). Can anyone tell me how to change wallpapers of all clients from this puppet server?
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Why do signed deb packages say they're not authenticated when copied to my private deb repo?
Quick Version
I have set up a private deb repository and copied some signed deb packages into it. I have installed the signing key locally. However when I try to install from the repo I get this ...
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How to setup Puppet server?
I would like to setup Central Management Server (PUPPET) to manage all clients. I have read many documentations, but none of them was helpful. Can anyone explain setting up puppet server in detail?
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IPv6 is disabled, but netfilter-persistent complains with `ip6tables-save v1.6.1: Cannot initialize: Address family not supported by protocol`
I've disabled IPv6 on a set of Docker nodes following the instructions from Disabling IPv6 in Ubuntu Server 18.04. However, netfilter-persistent is still complaining about IPv6:
root@docker10:~# ...
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systemctl cannot disable services, displays upstart errors
On my Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) server, I cannot disable services from autostarting at boot. I get these error messages:
$ sudo systemctl disable puppet.service
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initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 shutdown does not finish
When i shutdown my ubuntu 12,04 appears the "shutdown screen" and it never finish, keep shutting down... i use "tab key" to see the log and the last line says "Stopping Puppet Agent"... and it never ...
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Puppet-Like Configuration Tool?
In the business environment I work in, we tried to use Puppet to manage both our Linux and Windows machines. This includes tasks like installation of programs that are needed for our department and ...
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Change dconf keys without logging into X in Puppet
Is there a way to set a dconf key by command line, without logging into X?
I'd like to use this from Puppet.
If I try (from SSH, as the normal user) a simple
dconf write /desktop/gnome/remote-access/...
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Which puppetlabs release package to choose?
When looking at http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ there are puppetlabs packages, for the different Debian and Ubuntu releases. But apart from that there is the standard edition (like puppetlabs-release-...
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OS upgrade `on-the-fly`
I wonder if there is a way how to install newer version of OS, let's say 14.04 (when it comes) on the second partition of my server disk from within running OS (e.g. Ubuntu 12.04), then change grub ...
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How do I enlist a server in puppet?
I've installed a puppetmaster as described here. Now, I need to add a few puppet agents. How can I do that?
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Set fully qualified domain name on EC2 instance
I am trying to set a fully qualified domain name on EC2 instance. I have set CNAME entry in Route53, so when I go to sync1.staging1.mycompany.net, it resolves to the correct instance.
What I have ...
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puppet rspec no such file to load -- rspec-puppet (LoadError)
I have no prior experience at all of ruby. I am not interested in ruby (and so have no knowledge of rails etc) as such but am using puppet to manage a group of servers. I have written some modules ...
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How to download files to multiple laptops at once with dynamic IPs
I work at a company that teaches kids how to code, we often travel to the school sites to do the camp and have our own fleet of laptops that we bring with us.
I have the laptops in a Deep Freeze ...
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How To Set FQDN From Bash Script
Is it possible to set the fully qualified domain name from a bash script?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I have an autoscaling group on Amazon and I am using Puppet for configuration.
For example, I ...
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What is the proper way to install Puppet on a server? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I install a puppetmaster?
We've got several Ubuntu 10.04 servers and I'm looking to deploy Puppet for configuration management. The machines already have RVM installed ...
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Pending tasks in puppet dashboard?
My puppet master dashboard console shows x PENDING TASKS and it keeps on increasing.
How do I rectify it? Whenever I change any conf file, it does not get reflected in the dashboard. even if the node ...
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Puppet server cannot find certificate request when importing certificate
I am trying to install puppet server and client in two Ubuntu 10.04. one Ubuntu server which has puppet master and Ubuntu client which has puppet client.
**I referred the below link for installation**...
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how to deploy puppet master and puppet agent with juju?
I've an ubuntu 14.04lts server with MaaS and Juju, and both of them are installed via ppa stable.
I'd like to deploy puppet master on a Juju node and puppet agent on the other node present on my ...
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How to download packages from private repository with puppet?
I've set up my own apt repository to serve some .deb packages over LAN and I've set up my puppet configuration to install these packages.
If I use apt-get install to download the package it works ...
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How do I set up puppet storedconfigs?
I'd like to set up puppet storedconfigs. How do I do that? I've followed the steps here and here to set up my puppet master and to enlist a server (respectively).
How can I set up storedconfigs?
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Puppet Not Loading Custom Facts
I am new to puppet and trying to write a basic manifest to start learning the ins and out.
I am trying to insert a custom fact into my manifest, and write it into a file. The custom fact I created ...
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puppet intalled but stilll problem shown
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.5) ...
root@niroj-SVE15118FJW:/home/niroj# rpmquery puppet
package puppet is not installed
root@niroj-SVE15118FJW:/home/niroj# puppet --version
3.4.3
...
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compare package list between servers
i know on desktop there's a graphical way to sync package list between pc.
on servers i've always been doing
dpkg --get-selection >pkg_list
scp pkg_list username@server:
dpkg --set-selction <...
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Could not find default node or by name with 'com name' on node 'com name'?
Manifest Directory Structure of sys_info module is like,
Puppet
manifests (site.pp)
modules - sys_info - manifests (init.pp)
init.pp is like,
class sys_info {
package { 'gkrelmm' :
ensure =&...
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Dodgy install/uninstall Puppet
Getting started with Puppet and also not much chop on Ubuntu. Seems I've made a mess of installing/uninstalling Puppet on Tahr. My hunch so far is that I've deleted it incorrectly and now my re-...
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How to bootstrap puppetmaster on lxc on Ubuntu?
Installation of puppet master on Ubuntu has always been a matter of luck and a lot of patience to me - there are many seemingly unrelated things to do which has to be done in the precise order, many ...
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Is it safe to purge resolvconf if you handle /etc/resolv.conf via puppet?
We have multiple servers running 12.04 LTS and 10.04 LTS with static network settings. Is it safe to purge the package resolvconf if you handle /etc/resolv.conf via puppet?
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Puppetlabs apt sources lead to unauthenticated packages error
I have just created a new VM from Hetzner with Ubuntu 12.04 and started setting it up.
The steps I did are basically
wget http://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-precise.deb
sudo dpkg -i ...
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E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages when i apply site.pp ,currently using Ubuntu-22.04 and puppet-7.25.0
Error: Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install qemu-kvm' returned 100: Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Some ...
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[Jammy]: puppet-agent has no installation candidate despite following instructions
Goal: have Puppet 6 agent on a ubuntu:jammy docker container to test Puppet scripts.
I have added Puppetlabs repositories, ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade but still apt-get install puppet-agent ...
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puppetserver package not present in xenial and bionic repo
Just found that puppetserver opensource package is not present in xenial and bionic repo.Instead puppetmaster package is present.Eventhough the puppet version is 5.x is there any reason why they have ...
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Error when trying to start Apache after installing Passenger for puppet
I am having an issue that I am not able to start Apache after installing passenger and configuring the puppetmaster file in /etc/apache2/sites-available/.
I am getting the following error when I try ...
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Ubuntu-Software center stay on 'Pending' upon installing anything
there is a problem with the Ubuntu-Software center which i tried to find out the source for a 2 weeks now. Here is the setup/facts of the system in our organization:
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is used for ...
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How do I stop "search home.network" from appearing in my resolv.conf?
"search home.network" keeps appearing my resolv.conf. Because of that some web pages don't load. Is there some way of disabling it? My resolv.conf is managed by Puppet.
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puppet master monitoring
I have installed puppetmaster in ubuntu 10 and i have installed puppet in all my clients. I have joined all my puppet clients with puppet master. Tell me how to list all the running services of my ...
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Puppet6 getting error: "does not have a Release file." [duplicate]
I am getting the famous error message when fetching puppet6 repo from an internal webserver hosting our ubuntu repositories.
E: The repository 'http://ubunturepo.office.tho.com/apt.puppetlabs.com ...