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Exercise files for my course "Puppet Fundamentals for System Administrators"

Vagrantfiles for the Puppet Fundamentals for System Administrators course

Vagrant Box Downloads for VirtualBox

CentOS 6.5:

Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/206lcenz3o45c79/centos65.box?dl=1

Torrent: http://benpiper.github.io/course-files/puppet-system-administrators-fundamentals/centos65.box.torrent
NB: If you download the torrent, please seed it for at least a couple of days so others can download the image faster.

S3: https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/puppet-fundamentals-lab/centos65.box

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/vagrant/trusty/current/trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant-disk1.box

Requirements

VirtualBox and Vagrant

Note for RHEL/CentOS Linux users: You may need to run the following commands after installing VirtualBox:

sudo yum -y install kernel-devel
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

Lab Setup Instructions

  1. git clone this repository or download master.zip and unzip to the puppet-fundamentals-lab directory and cd to it.

  2. Download the CentOS 6.5 Vagrant box to the puppet-fundamentals-lab directory: https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/puppet-fundamentals-lab/centos65.box or
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/206lcenz3o45c79/centos65.box?dl=1 or
    http://benpiper.github.io/course-files/puppet-system-administrators-fundamentals/centos65.box.torrent
    Ensure the file is saved as centos65.box.

  3. Add the CentOS 6.5 box you just downloaded: vagrant box add centos65-base centos65.box

  4. Download the Ubuntu 14.04 Vagrant box to the same directory: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/vagrant/trusty/current/trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant-disk1.box

  5. Add the Ubuntu box: vagrant box add trusty64 trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant-disk1.box

Booting the Puppet Master Server

  1. cd into the puppetmaster subdirectory and launch the VM: vagrant up

  2. Once the machine is booted, SSH into it: vagrant ssh

Windows 2008 R2 ISO

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11093

Community Support

Visit https://benpiper.com/community/puppet-system-administrators-fundamentals/ for support resources.