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Puppet
======
Puppet, an automated administrative engine for your Linux and Unix systems, performs
administrative tasks (such as adding users, installing packages, and updating server
configurations) based on a centralized specification.
Documentation (and detailed install instructions) can be found online at the
`Puppet Documentation`_ site.
Additional documentation can also be found at the `Puppet Wiki`_.
Installation
------------
Generally, you need the following things installed:
* Ruby >= 1.8.1 (earlier releases might work but probably not)
* The Ruby OpenSSL library. For some reason, this often isn't included
in the main ruby distributions. You can test for it by running
'ruby -ropenssl -e "puts :yep"'. If that errors out, you're missing the
library.
If your distribution doesn't come with the necessary library (e.g., on Debian
and Ubuntu you need to install libopenssl-ruby), then you'll probably have to
compile Ruby yourself, since it's part of the standard library and not
available separately. You could probably just compile and install that one
library, though.
* The Ruby XMLRPC client and server libraries. For some reason, this often
isn't included in the main ruby distributions. You can test for it by
running 'ruby -rxmlrpc/client -e "puts :yep"'. If that errors out, you're missing
the library.
* Facter => 1.5.1
You can get this from your package management system or the `Facter site`_
.. _Puppet Documentation: http://docs.puppetlabs.com
.. _Puppet Wiki: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/
.. _Facter site: http://puppetlabs.com/projects/facter
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