Puppet in Docker How do i launch puppet agents test agents in Docker containers

Question

I have set up my puppet in docker infrastructure as shown in this thread using https://www.edureka.co/community/55130/puppet-docker-configuring-puppet-containers-docker-compose.

As a part of my set up I have a Puppet Server, PuppetDB, a PostgresDB container for PuppetDB and the open source dashboards Puppetboard and Puppet Explorer in Docker containers. 

I wanted to know how could I connect a few puppet agent probably ephemeral agents to this just for test purpose. Can somebody help me with this?

Answer 1

You could connect any agents to the Puppet infrastructure launched above however as an illustration in this context, launch a few ephemeral puppet agents in Docker containers.

• Note that Docker compose automatically creates a default network which we need to connect our containers to in order for them to find the Puppet Server.

• Let's run up a few alpine agents. Run the following command a few times.

docker run --net compose_default puppet/puppet-agent-alpine

• And then run some Ubuntu based agents. Again run the command a couple of times to populate the database.

docker run --net compose_default puppet/puppet-agent-ubuntu

• Now access the dashboard. You will probably have some data to explore and test.