Create a new environment

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By default a barebones environment called ‘production’ is installed by the server package. Unconfigured agents will try to apply the ‘production’ environment by default. It’s therefore a good idea to leave it empty so that you don’t accidentally apply configurations to a new agent.

1. Create a new directory in ‘/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments’ for your environment and give your user read/write access to it
   sudo mkdir /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/test
sudo chown sysadm.users /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/test

   

2. Create an empty Git repository in the new environment
   cd /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/test
git init
3. Copy the barebones ‘production’ environment’s contents
   cp -a ../production/* .

4. Add the new files to git, and commit the changes
   git add .
git commit -m "New empty environment"

   

5. Apply the environment to our server
   sudo /opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet agent --verbose --onetime --no-daemonize --server workshop.vm --environment test

   

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