Configuring puppet after installation

Question

I have installed Puppet 6.7 on my linux machine. How do i proceed with Configuring puppet so that i could perform some operations?

Answer 1

Once we have Puppet installed on the system, the next step is to configure it . These are some basic things that you need to configure:

Setting for Agents (all nodes):

• server — The master server to request configurations from. Defaults to puppet. Change it if that’s not your server’s name.

• certname — The node’s certificate name, and the unique identifier it uses when requesting catalogs. Defaults to the fully qualified domain name.

• environment — The environment to request when contacting the master. It’s only a request, though; the master’s ENC can override this if it chooses. Defaults to production.

• sourceaddress — The address on a multihomed host to use for the agent’s communication with the master server.

Setting for Master Servers:

• dns_alt_names — A list of hostnames the server is allowed to use when acting as a master. The hostname your agents use in their server setting must be included in either this setting or the master’s certname setting.

• environment_timeout — For better performance, you can set this to unlimited and make refreshing the master a part of your standard code deployment process.

• environmentpath — Controls where Puppet finds directory environments. 

• basemodulepath — A list of directories containing Puppet modules that can be used in all environments. 

• reports — Which report handlers to use.