vinmazzi / pcp

Puppet Community Platform

PCP

[P]uppet [C]ommunity [P]latform

Table of contents

1. Overview
2. Technologies
3. Authors
4. Contributors
5. Compatibility
6. Requirements
7. Setup
8. VMs
9. Control
10. Mcollective
11. PuppetExplorer

Overview

The PCP project aims to offer a complete Puppet virtual environment for testing and also development of Puppet modules.

This vagrantfile provides a easy way to install and integrate the main puppet tools.

Technologies

• Puppet Server 2.3.2
• Puppet Agent 1.4.2
• Mcollective 2.8.8
• PuppetDB 4.0.2
• PostgreSQL 9.4.6
• Puppet Explorer 2.0.0
• ActiveMQ 5.13.2

Everything is installed and configured using Puppet 4.

Authors

• Guto Carvalho ([email protected])
• Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho ([email protected])

Contributors

• Adriano Vieira
• Lauro Silveira
• Taciano Tres

Compatibility

This project was tested using CentOS 7 and Puppet 4.

Requirements

• Virtualbox >= 4
• Vagrant >= 1.8
  • plugin vagrant-hostsupdater (host records on host)
  • plugin vagrant-hosts (host records on guests)
  • plugin vagrant-proxyconf
• Box puppetlabs/centos-7.2-64-puppet

You must have at least 3 GB of free RAM to run PCP smoothly.

Setup

vagrant plugin install vagrant-hosts
vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater
vagrant box add puppetlabs/centos-7.2-64-puppet
git clone https://github.com/puppet-br/pcp.git
cd pcp
vagrant up

Proxy Setup

If you want to use the proxy plugin

1. Installation

vagrant plugin install vagrant-proxyconf

2. Configuration

HTTP_PROXY="http://proxy:3128"
HTTPS_PROXY=HTTP_PROXY

VMs

There are three VMs in the vagrantfile

• puppetserver.hacklab, 192.168.250.20
• puppetdb.hacklab, 192.168.250.25
• puppetmq.hacklab, 192.168.250.30

vm::puppetserver

puppetserver, puppetdb-termini and puppet agent.

vm::puppetdb

puppetdb, postgresql, puppet agent and puppet explorer.

vm::puppetmq

activemq and puppet agent.

Control

This project uses the pcp-controlrepo repository as source to install the production environment using r10k.

https://github.com/puppet-br/pcp-controlrepo

Mcollective

You can test the mcollective through the puppetmq.hacklab vm

vagrant ssh puppetmq.hacklab
sudo -i
mco find

PuppetExplorer

Access the puppet explorer dashboard throught this address

https://puppetdb.hacklab

You need to accept the certificate.

Run the agent on all VMs to create more reports.