Puppet Configuration module

Manage configuration for Puppet agent, puppet apply (masterless), puppet cert, and other Puppet tools.

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Module Description - What the module does and why it is useful
3. Setup - The basics of getting started with puppet
   • What puppet affects
   • Setup requirements
4. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
   • Example Hiera config

Overview

This module utilizes Hiera hierarchies to customize Puppet configuration for all components:

• puppet apply
• puppet agent
• puppet cert
• puppet lookup
• ...etc

Module Description

Configures Puppet agent, user tools, etc. Complements and requires puppetlabs/puppet_agent

• Performs single-option configuration changes allowing local customizations to remain
• Strives to demonstrate Puppet best practices.

Setup

What puppet_config affects

• Edits configuration file
  • Defaults to $confdir + /puppet.conf
• Notifies puppet service of changes
  • Defaults to puppet

Setup Requirements

Requires the puppet_agent module.

Usage

Configuration values in Hiera (or supplied by an node terminus):

• Common
  • puppet_config::main = Hash of configuration parameters for the [main] section
  • puppet_config::user = Hash of configuration parameters for the [user] section
  • puppet_config::agent = Hash of configuration parameters for the [agent] section
  • puppet_config::master = Hash of configuration parameters for the [master] section

Example Hiera Config

Hiera configuration:

  classes:
    - puppet_agent
    - puppet_config

  puppet_config::main:
    loglevel: 'warning'