Puppet On Ubuntu

Ubuntu, being a close derivative of Debian, has a similarly solid support base. However, there is no direct support for Puppet within the Ubuntu distribution. The packages that appear in the Ubuntu repositories are only there as a side-effect of Ubuntu’s wholesale importation of packages from Debian. Puppet packages in the Ubuntu repositories.

Usually, you can find newer packages in Debian’s unstable repositories

Supported Versions

It is an explicit design goal of the Debian package maintainer that the Puppet packages should work on all stable LTS releases. Running Puppet on other Ubuntu releases is expected to work, but isn’t nearly as well tested by the maintainer.

Ubuntu/hardy LTS

• On a fresh install of a Puppet node, you will experience that the puppet client always exits on start-up. On the Puppet master, you need to sign the certificate of the node, then the Puppet client stops exiting on start-up.