Puppet Configuration on Azure VM (Part-I)

In this blog, I will deploy the Puppet on Azure virtual machine. First thing you have to do is take a look on my this blog to know, how to create a virtual on Azure using command line. And then If Puppet is new for you, read my this blog first.

Create a virtual machine for Puppet master using following command:

az vm create --resource-group halcyoona-group --name master --image UbuntuLTS --generate-ssh-keys --output json --verbose

you will get this output:

Use existing SSH public key file: /home/halcyoona/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
{- Finished ..
  "fqdns": "",
  "id": "/subscriptions/95623de4-e1df-4c06-9954-bd66314b4bd0/resourceGroups/halcyoona-group/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/master",
  "location": "eastus",
  "macAddress": "00-22-48-20-91-D8",
  "powerState": "VM running",
  "privateIpAddress": "10.0.0.5",
  "publicIpAddress": "13.72.73.153",
  "resourceGroup": "halcyoona-group",
  "zones": ""
}

Now using publicIpAddress, ssh into your master using below command:

ssh halcyoona@13.72.73.153

Now add the repository of the Puppet.

wget https://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppet6-release-bionic.deb
sudo dpkg -i puppet6-release-bionic.deb
sudo apt update

Now install the Puppet Server in the Puppet master virtual machine:

sudo apt-get install puppetserver

Now we create our own CA with uisng following command:

/opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppetserver ca setup

Output:

Puppet For Beginners

In this blog, I will discuss Puppet architecture at the very basic level in a very simple way.

Consider a system administrator working with multiple servers. If one of the servers has an issue, they can easily fix it. The situation becomes problematic, however, when multiple servers are down.
This is where Puppet can help.
With Puppet, you can write simple code and deploy it to the servers that have issues. After the code runs, all servers are rolled back to their previous working states or set to the new desired states in a matter of seconds. Puppet can also be used to deploy software and add security, all through simple codes.

What is Puppet?

Puppet is a configuration management tool ensuring that all systems are configured to a desired and predictable state.
Puppet is an open-source DevOps system management tool. It is used to centralize and automate the configuration management procedure. This tool is developed using Ruby DSL (domain-specific language). Puppet tool deploys, configures, and manages the servers.

Architecture