Puppet

# Puppet On Ubuntu

Ubuntu, being a close derivative of Debian, has a similarly solid support base. Puppet has been promoted in to the 'main' archive of Ubuntu since Ubuntu 9.10, which means it receives timely security updates and in LTS releases will be supported on desktops for 3 years and servers for 5 years (regular stable release versions are only supported for 18 months).

See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/puppet for an overview of the package status in Ubuntu.

## 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.

### Hardy LTS

-   On a fresh install of a Puppet node, you will experience

    [that the puppet client always exits on start-up](https://bugs.launchpad.net/puppet/+bug/176113).

    On the Puppet master, you need to sign the certificate of the node,

    then the Puppet client stops exiting on start-up.

### Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS Lucid Lynx 

This distribution only has version 0.25 of puppet. In order to get access to newer versions of puppet, add the official Puppet Labs Apt repo. 

Here is how:

`sudo su -`

`echo -e "deb http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ubuntu lucid main\ndeb-src http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ubuntu lucid main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/puppet.list`

`apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 4BD6EC30`

`apt-get update`

For the puppet client run:

`apt-get install puppet`

For the puppet master run:

`apt-get install puppetmaster`