Thanks for the suggestion, Tom. I was working with a pre-existing environment but setting up cobbler is something I'll try next. -peter
On Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 5:08:42 PM UTC-4, duke wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > ever thought about trying Cobbler? > > In our environment, we PXE boot servers with Cobbler, install Xenial > with a recent Puppet agent and automatically sign the certificate on > the master for freshly deployed servers. Everything out of the box :) > > Hth, > Tom. > > On Wed, 2017-03-22 at 13:06 -0700, Peter K wrote: > > In my googling I did not find a simple recipe for how to install and > > run puppet for the first time (for a pxe / tftpboot / ubuntu / > > preseed / puppetlabs-repo scenario). > > > > Here's what I tagged onto the bottom on my preseed.cfg script: > > > > d-i preseed/late_command string in-target wget -O > > /home/<username>/puppetlabs-release-pc1-xenial.deb http://apt.puppetl > > abs.com/puppetlabs-release-pc1-xenial.deb;\ > > in-target /usr/bin/dpkg -i /home/<username>/puppetlabs- > > release-pc1-xenial.deb;\ > > in-target /usr/bin/apt-get update;\ > > in-target /usr/bin/apt-get install -y --allow-unauthenticated > > puppet-agent; > > #in-target /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/puppet resource service > > puppet ensure=running enable=true; # this line wan't necessary > > because puppet joined the server and ran for the first time on first > > boot with no other configuration...if you have autosigning set up. > > > > # This script assumes you have autosigning turned on by putting a > > single asterisk in this file on the puppet server: > > /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/autosign.conf > > > > Here's my pxelinux.cfg/default snipit (how the preseed.cfg is > > called): > > > > LABEL ubuntu-16.04.2 server LTS with preseed > > MENU LABEL ubuntu-16.04.2 server LTS with preseed > > KERNEL images/ubuntu-16.04.2-server-amd64.iso/linux > > APPEND initrd=images/ubuntu-16.04.2-server-amd64.iso/initrd.gz > > inst.repo=ftp://<ip address>/pub/ubuntu-16.04.2-server-amd64.iso > > auto=true priority=critical debian-installer/locale=en_US keyboard- > > configuration/layoutcode=us ubiquity/reboot=true > > languagechooser/language-name=English countrychooser/shortlist=US > > localechooser/supported-locales=en_US.UTF-8 boot=casper automatic- > > ubiquity quiet splash noprompt noshell preseed/url=ftp://<ip > > address>/pub/kickstarter/preseed.cfg --- > > > > # and ftp://<ip address>/pub/ubuntu-16.04.2-server-amd64.iso is a > > mountpoint to the file of the same name. > > # Make sure and change the <username> and <ip address> fields with > > your own. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Puppet Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > > send an email to puppet-users...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > > msgid/puppet-users/7a874867-5ed5-4928-890d- > > e9dbaec15b31%40googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > Thomas "Duke" Hager du...@sigsegv.at > <javascript:> > GPG: 2048R/791C5EB1 http://www.sigsegv.at/gpg/duke.gpg > ================================================================= > "Never Underestimate the Power of Stupid People in Large Groups." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/ee6ac4b7-cdb9-431f-8ed1-13311c318454%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
