Puppet users - Apr 2009 - How To: Puppet Setup on Redhat 8 using the puppet gem.

I got puppet installed and running on Redhat 8 today.  I''m passing on
my
notes to the list to help out others that may want or need puppet 
running on older Redhat servers.

This is pretty much a copy & paste from my own personal wiki so please 
forgive any odd formating.

==== Puppet Setup on Redhat 8 ===Here''s a quick-n-dirty on how I got
puppet running on redhat 8.  Please
don''t ask me why I needed it running on redhat 8.  I will burst into
tears.


My object here was to get my redhat 8 servers managed by puppet 
alongside the rest of my CentOS servers.
I decided to keep puppet separate from the rest of the system.  This way 
I don''t upset the systems chi.
I should point out that I know little about the world of ruby & its 
supposed "gems".
In the End this setup works & that is what is all that matters to me.

=== Basic Overview ==   * Installing to /opt/puppet using the puppet gem
package.

   * Download the latest openssl source from 
http://www.openssl.org/source.  I used openssl-0.9.8k.tar.gz

     * extract openssl and install using

     # ./config --prefix=/opt/puppet && make && make install

   * Download and extract Ruby 1.8.x from 
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8.  I used ruby-1.8.7-p72.tar.gz

     * Change to the ruby-1.8.7-p72 directory and move the ext/openssl 
directory out of the way.

    # cd ruby-1.8.7-p72
    # mv ext/openssl /tmp

   * With the openssl extension out of the way you can now install 
puppet like so
    # ./configure --prefix=/opt/puppet && make && make install

   * Now that ruby is installed move the openssl directory back into 
./ext then compile the openssl module separately.  This is important 
because we will be building the openssl ruby module using our openssl 
install located in /opt/puppet

   # pwd
   # /usr/local/src/puppet_setup/ruby-1.8.7-p72
   # mv /tmp/openssl ./ext
   # cd ./ext/openssl
   # ../../ruby extconf.rb --with-openssl-include=/opt/puppet/include 
--with-openssl-lib=/opt/puppet/lib
   # LD_RUN_PATH=/opt/puppet/lib make
   # make install


   * Next we will install rubygems from 
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126.  Here I used version 
rubygems-1.3.1.tgz

     * This is an easy install.  Extract the rubygems tar then install 
it using the newly installed version of ruby.

   # cd rubygems-1.3.1
   # /opt/puppet/bin/ruby setup.rb

   * Almost done.  Now download the latest stable puppet gem from 
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/DownloadingPuppet.  I ended up 
installing puppet-0.24.8.gem

   # /opt/puppet/bin/gem install puppet-0.24.8.gem

   * That''s it!  Puppet should now be located in 
/opt/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/bin.  I ended up creating a puppet module 
that links the different binaries from the gems directory to /usr/bin & 
/usr/sbin then adds an init script to /etc/init.d

   * When you run puppetd for the first time it should create 
/etc/puppet and /var/lib/puppet.


Hope this helps!

-Brandon Evans






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RH 8!!! I didn''t think anyone was still using it ;-)

Thanks for info. Unfortunately there are more people using old  
versions RH than you think.

-L

On Apr 14, 2009, at 8:29 PM, Brandon Evans wrote:
>
> I got puppet installed and running on Redhat 8 today.  I''m passing
> on my
> notes to the list to help out others that may want or need puppet
> running on older Redhat servers.
>
> This is pretty much a copy & paste from my own personal wiki so please
> forgive any odd formating.
>
> ==== Puppet Setup on Redhat 8 ===> Here''s a quick-n-dirty on
how I got puppet running on redhat 8.
> Please
> don''t ask me why I needed it running on redhat 8.  I will burst
into
> tears.
>
>
> My object here was to get my redhat 8 servers managed by puppet
> alongside the rest of my CentOS servers.
> I decided to keep puppet separate from the rest of the system.  This  
> way
> I don''t upset the systems chi.
> I should point out that I know little about the world of ruby & its
> supposed "gems".
> In the End this setup works & that is what is all that matters to me.
>
> === Basic Overview ==>   * Installing to /opt/puppet using the puppet
gem package.
>
>   * Download the latest openssl source from
> http://www.openssl.org/source.  I used openssl-0.9.8k.tar.gz
>
>     * extract openssl and install using
>
>     # ./config --prefix=/opt/puppet && make && make install
>
>   * Download and extract Ruby 1.8.x from
> ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8.  I used ruby-1.8.7-p72.tar.gz
>
>     * Change to the ruby-1.8.7-p72 directory and move the ext/openssl
> directory out of the way.
>
>    # cd ruby-1.8.7-p72
>    # mv ext/openssl /tmp
>
>   * With the openssl extension out of the way you can now install
> puppet like so
>    # ./configure --prefix=/opt/puppet && make && make
install
>
>   * Now that ruby is installed move the openssl directory back into
> ./ext then compile the openssl module separately.  This is important
> because we will be building the openssl ruby module using our openssl
> install located in /opt/puppet
>
>   # pwd
>   # /usr/local/src/puppet_setup/ruby-1.8.7-p72
>   # mv /tmp/openssl ./ext
>   # cd ./ext/openssl
>   # ../../ruby extconf.rb --with-openssl-include=/opt/puppet/include
> --with-openssl-lib=/opt/puppet/lib
>   # LD_RUN_PATH=/opt/puppet/lib make
>   # make install
>
>
>   * Next we will install rubygems from
> http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126.  Here I used version
> rubygems-1.3.1.tgz
>
>     * This is an easy install.  Extract the rubygems tar then install
> it using the newly installed version of ruby.
>
>   # cd rubygems-1.3.1
>   # /opt/puppet/bin/ruby setup.rb
>
>   * Almost done.  Now download the latest stable puppet gem from
> http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/DownloadingPuppet.  I  
> ended up
> installing puppet-0.24.8.gem
>
>   # /opt/puppet/bin/gem install puppet-0.24.8.gem
>
>   * That''s it!  Puppet should now be located in
> /opt/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/bin.  I ended up creating a puppet  
> module
> that links the different binaries from the gems directory to /usr/ 
> bin &
> /usr/sbin then adds an init script to /etc/init.d
>
>   * When you run puppetd for the first time it should create
> /etc/puppet and /var/lib/puppet.
>
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> -Brandon Evans
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >

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Hi
> I got puppet installed and running on Redhat 8 today.  I''m passing
on my
> notes to the list to help out others that may want or need puppet 
> running on older Redhat servers.
> 
> This is pretty much a copy & paste from my own personal wiki so please 
> forgive any odd formating.
would be cool, if you could add this to the Puppet Wiki.

cheers pete

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On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Brandon Evans <bevans@adicio.com>
wrote:
>
> I got puppet installed and running on Redhat 8 today.  I''m passing
on my
> notes to the list to help out others that may want or need puppet
> running on older Redhat servers.
>
> This is pretty much a copy & paste from my own personal wiki so please
> forgive any odd formating.
>

Hey Brandon,

 Good work, one question though. I see that you are make && make
install ''ing at a lot of places. Wouldn''t it be better if you
just
download the latest source rpm and modify the spec file instead?

 Just a though.

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Will do.  I''ll clean it up a little and add try to add it today.

-Brandon

Peter Meier wrote:
> Hi
> 
>> I got puppet installed and running on Redhat 8 today.  I''m
passing on my
>> notes to the list to help out others that may want or need puppet 
>> running on older Redhat servers.
>>
>> This is pretty much a copy & paste from my own personal wiki so
please
>> forgive any odd formating.
> 
> would be cool, if you could add this to the Puppet Wiki.
> 
> cheers pete
> 
> > 
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> Hey Brandon,
> 
>  Good work, one question though. I see that you are make && make
> install ''ing at a lot of places. Wouldn''t it be better if
you just
> download the latest source rpm and modify the spec file instead?
> 
>  Just a though.
> 
Perhaps. I kept running into issues with either ruby or openssl .  The 
issues I was having while trying to get puppet running on rh8  all 
boiled down to openssl needing an update & ruby''s openssl module
needing
to be compiled against  the newer openssl.

I didn''t want to mess with the OS too much so rather than upgrade 
openssl & ruby on the system I decided to install everything that puppet 
needs to run into one place (/opt/puppet)


I''m a huge fan of building RPMS and distributing via yum.  In this case
the time it takes to build the redhat 8 RPMS would take longer then just 
deploying it manually on the few rh8 servers we have running.


-brandon


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On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 17:29 -0700, Brandon Evans wrote:
> I got puppet installed and running on Redhat 8 today.
Is that really Red Hat Linux 8, released 2002-09-30, or Fedora Core 8 ?
If the former I am extremely impressed that you got anything to build. 

David



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It is Redhat 8 from 2002 >:-}

My first swing at getting it running on rh8 didn''t go so well.  The 
method listed here seems to work fine.  Since my original post I have 
since rolled it out to my redhat 8 boxes (about 6 of them) and 
everything is running smooth.


-brandon

David Lutterkort wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 17:29 -0700, Brandon Evans wrote:
>> I got puppet installed and running on Redhat 8 today.
> 
> Is that really Red Hat Linux 8, released 2002-09-30, or Fedora Core 8 ?
> If the former I am extremely impressed that you got anything to build. 
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> > 
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