Installing Puppet agent¶

In this section we assume you have already installed the apt or yum Puppet repository on your agent system in the same way that you did on your Puppet Server.

Installation on CentOS/RHEL/Fedora¶

# yum install puppet
# puppet resource package puppet ensure=latest

Installation on Debian/Ubuntu¶

# apt-get install puppet
# apt-get update
# puppet resource package puppet ensure=latest

Configuration¶

Add the server value to the [main] section of the node’s /etc/puppet/puppet.conf file, replacing puppet.example.com with your Puppet Server’s FQDN:

[main]
server = puppet.example.com

Restart the Puppet service:

# service puppet restart