Configuration Management with Puppet: The Initial Setup

#sysadmin #management #linux Disclaimer: this video is not monetized and I have received no compensation from puppetlabs, Almalinux, or Redhat for making this. In this video I set up a Puppet server and agent (on Almalinux) and write a simple user-add module. 00:00 Introduction 00:38 What Puppet is (sort-of) 01:34 Starting the Setup Process 02:05 Edit /etc/hosts 02:20 Install the PuppetLabs repository (Almalinux) and packages 03:05 Puppet server config 04:00 Puppet agent config 04:41 Pairing master & agent (SSL Keys) 05:22 Everything is working 05:48 Writing a Module (start) 06:34 Coding the module (init.pp, groups.pp) 08:24 Rolling out the module to agents 09:24 Closing Remarks Feel free to comment and subscribe if you want to see more content like this. Youtube wiped my entire video description. I don't have the energy to rewrite it, so hopefully the video chapters are enough.