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Puppet Enterprise User’s Guide

This is the user’s guide for Puppet Enterprise 2.0. Use the navigation to the right to move between this guide’s sections and chapters, or pick a section below.

• Welcome to Puppet Enterprise

  Introductory info about the components and organization of Puppet Enterprise.

  • Getting Started
  • Components and Roles
  • New Features and Release Notes
  • Known Issues
  • Getting Support

• Installing Puppet Enterprise

  Installation and upgrade instructions, and a short tour of PE’s files, users, and services.

  • System Requirements
  • Preparing to Install
  • Basic Installation
  • Upgrading
  • Uninstalling
  • Automated Installation
  • Answer File Reference
  • What gets installed where?

• The Console

  A tour of PE’s web console and its new live management features.

  • Accessing the Console
  • Navigating the Console
  • Viewing Reports and Inventory Data
  • Grouping and Classifying Nodes
  • Live Management
  • Live Management: Managing Resources
  • Live Management: Controlling Puppet
  • Live Management: Advanced Tasks

• Puppet For New PE Users

  A whirlwind introduction to Puppet; after reading this section, you will be able to create simple Puppet modules and apply them to your nodes. Also contains links to more detailed resources.

  • Overview
  • Your First Module
  • Assigning a Class to a Node
  • Next Steps

• Orchestration For New PE Users

  A whirlwind introduction to orchestration; after reading this section, you will be able to invoke orchestration agents from the command-line client.

  • Overview
  • Usage and Examples

• Cloud Provisioning

  Documentation for PE’s cloud provisioner tool, which can create and provision new nodes from the command line.

  • Overview
  • Configuring and Troubleshooting
  • Provisioning with VMware
  • Provisioning with AWS
  • Classifying Nodes and Remotely Installing PE
  • Man Page: puppet node_vmware
  • Man Page: puppet node_aws
  • Man Page: puppet node

• The Compliance Workflow

  A guide to PE’s compliance and auditing workflow.

  • Basics and UI
  • Using the Compliance Workflow
  • Tutorial

• The PE Accounts Module

  Documentation for the pe_accounts module, which provides a convenient shortcut for managing user accounts.

  • The pe_accounts::user Type
  • The pe_accounts Class

• Maintenance and Troubleshooting

  Help with common tasks and problems.

  • Common Configuration Errors
  • Console Maintenance Tasks
  • Installing Additional Components
  • Reconfiguring Complex Settings

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