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Some guides instruct the user to create a directory at /etc/puppet/manifests
and to place .pp
files in that directory. However, doing so results in a non-working puppet install since, by default, puppet has defined defaults.
The correct way is to determine the defaults and work with them. With Puppet installed, issue for instance:
puppet config print | grep manifest
and, at least on Debian, the output will be along the lines of:
default_manifest = ./manifests disable_per_environment_manifest = false genmanifest = false manifest = /etc/puppet/code/environments/production/manifests ordering = manifest
which means that .pp
files should be placed in /etc/puppet/code/environments/production/manifests
.
It is possible to edit /etc/puppet/puppet.conf
and change the defaults, however doing so comes at the cost of maintainability as well as possible incompatibility with the distribution defaults.
/etc/puppet/puppet.conf
and:server = myserver.tld
to the [main]
section (where myserver.tld
represents the hostname of the current machine; of the master),dns_alt_names = myserver.tld
to the [master]
section (where myserver.tld
represents the hostname of the current machine; of the master),puppet config print | grep "^manifest ="
in order to determine where the .pp
files should go,site.pp
puppet apply -t –verbose site.pp
inside the manifest directory/etc/puppet/puppet.conf
and:server = myserver.tld
to the [main]
section (where, myserver.tld
represents the hostname of the Puppet master),puppet agent -t –verbose
from anywhere to start provisioning the agent