Installing Puppet on PicOS

NOTE:

You can see an example of Puppet module to manipulate PicOS configuration on our Github repository:

https://github.com/Pica8/Configuration-Managers

If the FTP server is connected via the Eth0/1 port, you need to add the string sudo ip vrf exec mgmt-vrf before the apt-get command when executing the apt-get operation.
For example:
admin@Xorplus:~$ sudo ip vrf exec mgmt-vrf apt-get update

If sudo ip vrf exec mgmt-vrf is not added, find the next hop routing information from the default VRF. For the usage of VRF, refer to the VRF configuration guide.

Step 1 Use the correct repository for the specific application and CPU on the switch. Pica8 support can help in the choice of repository.

admin@PICOS:~$sudo more /etc/apt/sources.list | grep -v "#"
deb http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/ unstable main

For a typical puppet installation, the latest standard debian repo is advised.

Step 2 Update the debian packages on PicOS.

admin@PICOS:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit http://ftp.tw.debian.org stable Release.gpg
Hit http://ftp.tw.debian.org stable Release
Hit http://ftp.tw.debian.org stable/main powerpc Packages
Hit http://ftp.tw.debian.org stable/main Translation-en
Reading package lists... Done
admin@PICOS:~$

Step 3 Install puppet client and configure it.

admin@PICOS:~$ sudo apt-get install puppet

Look at the puppet documentation to understand how to connect the puppet client to a puppet server. A simple installation would require at least minor modification on the puppet.conf file.

Step 4 Verify Puppet installation.