Puppet Setup (with Foreman)

• Start with a fresh install of SL6

  # Configure root authorized_keys
  # Configure iptables to close SSH to the world
  # yum update
  # Disable nightly yum upgrades: sed 's/ENABLED=.*/ENABLED="false"/' -i /etc/sysconfig/yum-autoupdate
  # Disable selinux
  # reboot

http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.1/index.html#3.InstallingForeman

• Enable epel/epel-testing repos: rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
• Enable puppetlabs repo: rpm -Uvh http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6/products/i386/puppetlabs-release-6-6.noarch.rpm
• Enable foreman repo: rpm -Uvh http://yum.theforeman.org/releases/1.1/el6/x86_64/foreman-release-1.1stable-3.el6.noarch.rpm
• Install puppet client yum install puppet
• Install foreman installer yum install foreman-installer

ruby /usr/share/foreman-installer/generate_answers.rb

Obsolete

This is (for now) just notes for reference.

• Start with a fresh install of SL6.
• Enable epel/epel-testing repos: =rpm -i http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm=
• Install puppet-server: yum install puppet-server --enablerepo=epel-testing,epel
• Enable puppet repo (for utils):

  cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/puppetlabs.repo << EOF
  [puppetlabs]
  name=Puppet Labs Packages
  baseurl=http://yum.puppetlabs.com/base/
  enabled=0
  gpgcheck=1
  gpgkey=http://yum.puppetlabs.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-reductive
  EOF
  
  yum install mcollective puppet-dashboard --enablerepo=puppetlabs,epel

• Download foreman

  cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/foreman.repo << EOF
  [foreman]
  name=Foreman Repo
  baseurl=http://yum.theforeman.org/stable
  gpgcheck=0
  enabled=0
  EOF
  
  yum install foreman --enablerepo=foreman

Then we need to configure what we've installed. I found a nice debian howto here, need to adapt a bit to rhel6. https://host1.no/blog/puppet/how-to-install-puppet-and-puppet-dashboard/

-- PabloFernandez - 2011-08-25