Install Puppet Server 5

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1. Install Puppet Server from the repository. Note that the Puppet Agent is a dependency and is installed automatically.
   sudo yum install puppetserver

2. Enable and start the service
   sudo systemctl enable puppetserver
sudo systemctl start puppetserver

   
   Ouch, something is wrong. Let’s take a look at the journal
   sudo journalctl -xe

   
   Ah, we need more memory for the server to start up. Let’s increase the swap file size.

   1. Turn off swap
      sudo swapoff -a
   2. Take a look at its current size
      sudo lvdisplay /dev/vg0/swap
   3. Resize the swap volume to 2GB
      sudo lvresize -l 512 /dev/vg0/swap
   4. Reformat the swap volume
      sudo mkswap /dev/vg0/swap
   5. Turn on swap
      sudo swapon -a

   

   Let’s try to start that service again.
   sudo systemctl start puppetserver

   

   On first startup the server generates its CA certificate and a new certificate for the server.
   sudo find /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl/ -name "*.pem"
sudo /opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet cert list --all

   

3. Test that the agent on the server is happy with the certificates
   sudo /opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet agent --test --server workshop.vm

   

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