How to Use Puppet with Linux | Installing Puppet | Creating Puppet Manifests

Installing Puppet agent: Linux Install the Puppet agent so that your master can communicate with your Linux nodes. Before you begin: Review the pre-install tasks and installing Puppet Server. Install a release package to enable Puppet Platform repositories. Confirm that you can run Puppet executables. The location for Puppet’s executables is /opt/puppetlabs/bin/, which is not in your PATH environment variable by default. The executable path doesn’t matter for Puppet services — for instance, service puppet start works regardless of the PATH — but if you’re running interactive puppet commands, you must either add their location to your PATH or execute them using their full path. To quickly add the executable location to your PATH for your current terminal session, use the command export PATH=/opt/puppetlabs/bin:$PATH. You can also add this location wherever you configure your PATH, such as your .profile or .bashrc configuration files. For more information, see details about file and directory locations. Install the puppet-agent package on your Puppet agent nodes using the command appropriate to your system: Yum – sudo yum install puppet-agent