Deployment¶

In order to install Puppet Master on the brand new server running Ubuntu please proceed with the following steps:

1. Install Ubuntu 14.04 with SSH service and set FQDN to puppet-master.test.local

2. Install git and clone Puppet Manifests repository into /etc/puppet directory:

   apt-get install -y git
   git clone https://github.com/fuel-infra/puppet-manifests.git /etc/puppet
   

3. Execute the Puppet Master’s install script:

   /etc/puppet/bin/install_puppet_master.sh
   

The script does the following:

• upgrades all packages on the system
• installs required puppet modules
• installs Puppet Master packages
• runs puppet apply to setup Puppet Master
• runs puppet agent to do a second pass and verify if installation is usable

When script finishes successfully, the Puppet Master installation is completed.

The Hiera hierarchy¶

1. common.yaml - the most general,
2. locations/%{::location}.yaml - can override common’s data,
3. roles/%{::role}.yaml - can override location’s and common’s data
4. nodes/%{::clientcert}.yaml - can override data specified in common, location and role.

The common and nodes are used within every deployment when exist. But in contrast, the location and role needs to be passed explicitly as a variable within puppet agent run, in order to use them. An example:

FACTER_ROLE=websrv FACTER_LOCATION=us1 puppet agent -tvd

To include puppet’s class in a role, it is required to use the classes keyword on the role’s beginning. An example:

---
classes:
  - '::class1::class2'

Other example - create a role’s stub for ‘docker_registry’ module and make sure that each of the nodes running that role have its own, custom, service’s FQDN set in Nginx’s Vhost.

1. File ‘roles/docker_registry.yaml’

   ---
   classes:
     - '::docker_registry'
     - '::fuel_project::nginx'
     - '::fuel_project::apps::firewall'
     - '::fuel_project::common'
   
   docker_registry::service_fqdn: '%{::fqdn}'
   

2. File ‘nodes/srv01-us.infra.test.local.yaml’

   ---
   
   docker_registry::service_fqdn: 'registry-us1.infra.test.local'
   

3. File ‘nodes/srv01-cz.infra.test.local.yaml’

   ---
   
   docker_registry::service_fqdn: 'registry-cz1.infra.test.local'
   

On a srv01-us.infra.test.local node, during the deployment of a docker_registry role, a default value for service_fqdn class parameter has been overridden.

After the deployment using FACTER variable a facter file is created containing the used FACTERs variables. For instance:

cat /etc/facter/facts.d/facts.sh
#!/bin/bash

echo "location=us1"
echo "role=docker_registry"

Having these, now every next puppet agent run will not require FACTER variables to be passed (if no role nor location is to be changed).