From the course: Learning Puppet (2017)

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Install your Puppet master

Install your Puppet master - Puppet Tutorial

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Install your Puppet master

- [Instructor] Now we're ready to install the Puppet Master software. There are detailed instructions on docs.puppet.com but we'll run through it here as well. Before we get started, we'll need to log into our Master and you can just use the command vagrant ssh and you need to be in the same directory as your vagrant file to do that. This can sometimes take a moment. There we go. And I'll clear that. And then I'm going to become the root user. For the initial setup, it's a bit simpler to just become root and run commands that way. So the command is sudo su dash. There we go. Next, we'll want to set up the Puppet package repositories using rpm. Rpm is part of the CentOS package management system. So the command here is rpm -Uvh https:// and then yum.puppet.com/puppet6-release-el for Enterprise Linux and then -7.noarch.rpm. This just installs a package which lets the operating system know where to…

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