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Puppet Server Provisioner

Type: puppet-server

The puppet-server provisioner provisions Packer machines with Puppet by connecting to a Puppet master.

Note that Puppet will not be installed automatically by this provisioner. This provisioner expects that Puppet is already installed on the machine. It is common practice to use the shell provisioner before the Puppet provisioner to do this.

Basic Example

The example below is fully functional and expects a Puppet server to be accessible from your network.:

{
   "type": "puppet-server",
   "options": "--test --pluginsync",
   "facter": {
     "server_role": "webserver"
   }
}

Configuration Reference

The reference of available configuration options is listed below.

The provisioner takes various options. None are strictly required. They are listed below:

• client_cert_path (string) - Path to the client certificate for the node on your disk. This defaults to nothing, in which case a client cert won't be uploaded.

• client_private_key_path (string) - Path to the client private key for the node on your disk. This defaults to nothing, in which case a client private key won't be uploaded.

• facter (hash) - Additional Facter facts to make available to the Puppet run.

• options (string) - Additional command line options to pass to puppet agent when Puppet is ran.

• puppet_node (string) - The name of the node. If this isn't set, the fully qualified domain name will be used.

• puppet_server (string) - Hostname of the Puppet server. By default "puppet" will be used.

• prevent_sudo (boolean) - By default, the configured commands that are executed to run Puppet are executed with sudo. If this is true, then the sudo will be omitted.

• staging_directory (string) - This is the directory where all the configuration of Puppet by Packer will be placed. By default this is "/tmp/packer-puppet-server". This directory doesn't need to exist but must have proper permissions so that the SSH user that Packer uses is able to create directories and write into this folder. If the permissions are not correct, use a shell provisioner prior to this to configure it properly.