Puppet agent Install Using Script

With this script, you can install puppet agents in few minutes on Red Hat or Debian based systems.

Make a puppet script file,

# vi puppetscript.sh

Add the following contents:

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 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -e
 set -u
 EXPECTED_ARGS=2
 E_BADARGS=65
 if [ $# -ne $EXPECTED_ARGS ]
 then
 echo "Usage: $0 master_hostname node_hostname"
 exit $E_BADARGS
 fi# Detect OS [https://github.com/coto/server-easy-install/blob/master/lib/core.sh]lowercase(){
 echo "$1" | sed "y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/"
 }OS=`lowercase \`uname\``
 KERNEL=`uname -r`
 MACH=`uname -m`

if [ "{$OS}" == "windowsnt" ]; then
 OS=windows
 elif [ "{$OS}" == "darwin" ]; then
 OS=mac
 else
 OS=`uname`
 if [ "${OS}" = "SunOS" ] ; then
 OS=Solaris
 ARCH=`uname -p`
 OSSTR="${OS} ${REV}(${ARCH} `uname -v`)"
 elif [ "${OS}" = "AIX" ] ; then
 OSSTR="${OS} `oslevel` (`oslevel -r`)"
 elif [ "${OS}" = "Linux" ] ; then
 if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ] ; then
 DistroBasedOn='RedHat'
 DIST=`cat /etc/redhat-release |sed s/\ release.*//`
 PSUEDONAME=`cat /etc/redhat-release | sed s/.*\(// | sed s/\)//`
 REV=`cat /etc/redhat-release | sed s/.*release\ // | sed s/\ .*//`
 elif [ -f /etc/SuSE-release ] ; then
 DistroBasedOn='SuSe'
 PSUEDONAME=`cat /etc/SuSE-release | tr "\n" ' '| sed s/VERSION.*//`
 REV=`cat /etc/SuSE-release | tr "\n" ' ' | sed s/.*=\ //`
 elif [ -f /etc/mandrake-release ] ; then
 DistroBasedOn='Mandrake'
 PSUEDONAME=`cat /etc/mandrake-release | sed s/.*\(// | sed s/\)//`
 REV=`cat /etc/mandrake-release | sed s/.*release\ // | sed s/\ .*//`
 elif [ -f /etc/debian_version ] ; then
 DistroBasedOn='Debian'
 DIST=`cat /etc/lsb-release | grep '^DISTRIB_ID' | awk -F= '{ print $2 }'`
 PSUEDONAME=`cat /etc/lsb-release | grep '^DISTRIB_CODENAME' | awk -F= '{ print $2 }'`
 REV=`cat /etc/lsb-release | grep '^DISTRIB_RELEASE' | awk -F= '{ print $2 }'`
 fi
 if [ -f /etc/UnitedLinux-release ] ; then
 DIST="${DIST}[`cat /etc/UnitedLinux-release | tr "\n" ' ' | sed s/VERSION.*//`]"
 fi
 OS=`lowercase $OS`
 DistroBasedOn=`lowercase $DistroBasedOn`
 readonly OS
 readonly DIST
 readonly DistroBasedOn
 readonly PSUEDONAME
 readonly REV
 readonly KERNEL
 readonly MACH
 fi
fi

MASTER_HOSTNAME=$1
 NODE_HOSTNAME=$2

hostname $NODE_HOSTNAME

case $DistroBasedOn in
 debian)
 echo $NODE_HOSTNAME > /etc/hostname
 apt-get -y install wget
 wget http://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-precise.deb
 dpkg -i puppetlabs-release-precise.deb
 apt-get update
 apt-get -y install puppet
 ;;
 redhat)
 echo "NETWORKING=yes" > /etc/sysconfig/network
 echo "HOSTNAME=$NODE_HOSTNAME" >> /etc/sysconfig/network
 rpm -ivh http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6/products/i386/puppetlabs-release-6-6.noarch.rpm || true
 yum -y install puppet
 ;;
 *)
 echo "Your operating system does not compatible with the script"
 exit 1
 esac

echo "[main]
 logdir=/var/log/puppet
 vardir=/var/lib/puppet
 ssldir=/var/lib/puppet/ssl
 rundir=/var/run/puppet
 factpath=\$vardir/lib/facter
 templatedir=\$confdir/templates
 server=$MASTER_HOSTNAME
 report=true
 pluginsync=true
 [master]
 # These are needed when the puppetmaster is run by passenger
 # and can safely be removed if webrick is used.
 ssl_client_header = SSL_CLIENT_S_DN
 ssl_client_verify_header = SSL_CLIENT_VERIFY" > /etc/puppet/puppet.conf

case $DistroBasedOn in
 debian)
 echo '# Defaults for puppet - sourced by /etc/init.d/puppet

# Start puppet on boot?
 START=yes

# Startup options
 DAEMON_OPTS=""' > /etc/default/puppet
 ;;
 esac

puppet resource service puppet ensure=running enable=true

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Please run the script as shown in the below command:

# chmod +x puppetscript
# ./puppetscript  master-hostnane agent-hostname

Script from ideaonsails.