Development environment

First start:

Install necessary dependencies

VirtualBox - https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Vagrant - http://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html

Vagrant 1.9.1

Have to be installed vagrant plugins:

librarian-puppet (2.2.3)
vagrant-cachier (1.2.1)
vagrant-librarian-puppet (0.9.2)
vagrant-share (1.1.7, system)

For manual install dependencies via librarian:

librarian-puppet update --verbose

For first start needs some time for download basebox from internet.

Vagrant command	Description
status	output status of the vagrant machine
halt	suspend VM
up	starts and provisions the vagrant environment
ssh	connects to machine via SSH
destroy	stops and deletes all traces of the vagrant machine
provision	provisions the vagrant machine
reload	restarts vagrant machine, loads new Vagrantfile configuration
resume	resume a suspended vagrant machine

Debug mode:

For debug mode you can use parameters before command 'vagrant':

• PUPPET_DEBUG=1 - Display all regular output
• PUPPET_DEBUG=2 - Display all messages with "--verbose" and "--debug" keys

By default all regular output will be redirected to '/dev/null'

Vagrantfile

Located in root folder of project. Contain all configurations for starting VMs via vagrant.

For adding a new server need to add section after comment "#Configurations for servers"

   config.vm.define 'test-server' do |box|
    box.vm.box = 'trusty64'                                     #name of basebox
    box.vm.box_url= 'https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/vagrant/trusty/current/trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant-disk1.box'
    box.vm.host_name = 'test-server.dev'                        #hostname
    box.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.12.12"       #network configuration
    configure_providers.call(box, "test-server", 1024, 2)       #configuration for providers
    provision_puppet.call(box, "192.168.12.12", "test-server")  #configuration for puppet
   end

Production environment

On nodes puppet-agent preinstalled or installed via script install.sh with all dependencies.

After Creating a node we need to check a hostname,

hostname -f

clean old sertificates from puppet folders:

find /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl -name hostname.dev.pem -delete

and after make a first start:

puppet agent -t --server puppetmaster.dev  #After last changes server name is already in agent configs

On puppet master sign a node:

puppet cert sign hostname.dev

and on the node start puppet provision again with environment:

puppet agent -t --environment development

Puppet structure:

Has been used puppet v.4 with hiera.

All packages can be found on http://apt.puppetlabs.com/

• hiera:

  • development - folder for .yaml configuration files for development environment
  • production - folder for .yaml configuration files for production environment
  • common.yaml - configuration for all VMs
  • hiera.yaml - main hiera configuration

• manifests - main configuration for puppet (site.pp)

• modules - contains all external modules

• roles - contains roles for servers

• environment.conf - configuration for puppet environment