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Puppet 5 Cookbook

You're reading from   Puppet 5 Cookbook Jump start your Puppet 5.x deployment using engaging and practical recipes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788622448
Length 394 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Thomas Uphill Thomas Uphill
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Puppet Language and Style FREE CHAPTER 2. Puppet Infrastructure 3. Writing Better Manifests 4. Working with Files and Packages 5. Users and Virtual Resources 6. Managing Resources and Files 7. Managing Applications 8. Servers and Cloud Infrastructure 9. External Tools and the Puppet Ecosystem 10. Monitoring, Reporting, and Troubleshooting 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Pushing code around with Git


As we have already seen in the decentralized model, Git can be used to transfer files between machines using a combination of ssh and ssh keys. It can also be useful to have a Git hook do the same on each successful commit to the repository.

There is a hook, called postcommit, that can be run after a successful commit to the repository. In this recipe, we'll create a hook that updates the code on our Puppet master with code from our Git repository on the Git server.

Getting ready

Follow these steps to get started:

  1. Create an ssh key that can access your Puppet user on your Puppet master and install this key into the Git user's account on git.example.com:
vagrant@git:~$ sudo -iu git
$ ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/puppet_rsa
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): 
Enter same passphrase again: 
Your identification has been saved in /home/git/.ssh/puppet_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/git/.ssh/puppet_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint...
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