Ansible Role: Puppet

An Ansible Role that installs Puppet on Linux.

Requirements

Requires Java 7 or later to be installed on the server (you can use the geerlingguy.java role to install Java if needed; see the test playbook in tests/ for an example).

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

puppet_package: puppetserver

The package to be installed.

puppet_service: puppetserver
puppet_service_state: started
puppet_service_enabled: false
puppet_service_manage: false

The service that should be run on this server. By default, this role will not manage a Puppet service, and will not enable it at boot time.

puppet_bin_path: /opt/puppetlabs/bin

The path to all the Puppet Labs binaries (after the package is installed).

puppet_version: 7

The major version of Puppet to be installed.

# Used only for Debian/Ubuntu.
puppet_apt_deb: "https://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppet{{ puppet_version }}-release-{{ ansible_distribution_release }}.deb"

The .deb file for installation on Debian-based OSes.

# Used only for RedHat/CentOS.
puppet_yum_rpm: "https://yum.puppet.com/puppet{{ puppet_version }}-release-el-{{ ansible_distribution_major_version }}.noarch.rpm"

The .rpm file for installation on RedHat-based OSes.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - geerlingguy.puppet

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2017 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.