What is a production environment in Puppet?
An environment is a branch that gets turned into a directory on your primary Puppet server. Environments are turned on by default.
What is R10K Puppetfile?
A Puppetfile specifies detailed information about each environment’s Puppet code and data, including where to get that code and data from, where to install it, and whether to update it. Both Code Manager and r10k use a Puppetfile to install and manage the content of your environments.
What is a Puppet profile?
“From a Puppet perspective, a profile is just a normal class stored in the profile module.” A profile will generally be a class that takes a particular module and adds additional code or logic to implement the it appropriately in your environment.
What do you need to know about puppet environments?
Puppet provides the tools to separate entire branches of configuration. These are called environments. A Puppet environment is a way to supply an isolated group of agent nodes with their own dedicated configuration. Each environment contains an entire Puppet configuration tree and can be considered as a separate Puppet master server.
Which is the best way to test a new Puppet configuration?
The typical scenario for environments, and is the one that we are exploring in this guide, is to create a testing environment, alongside the production environment, where new Puppet configuration is created. One way to test the new configuration in the testing environment is by updating a copy of a production server, such as a VM snapshot.
Where is the puppet file located in Ubuntu?
On Ubuntu 18.04LTS, the version that will be used in this guide, the location is at /etc/puppet. Other distributions (and the official documentation) may place it at /etc/puppetlabs/. However, once you are in the main Puppet configuration directory all sub-directories are the same for all distributions.
What is the difference between puppet and Puppet Server?
Puppet programs provide configuration management services using a client-server approach. Puppet managed servers use Puppet agents to connect with and update their configuration instructions from the Puppet controller. Both the controller and agent run on your server as a daemon.