How To Install puppet on Fedora 34

puppet is A network tool for managing many disparate systems

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install puppet on Fedora 34.

What is `puppet`

Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system using a cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate elements normally aggregated in different files, like users, cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously discrete elements like packages, services, and files.

We can use yum or dnf to install puppet on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install puppet.

Install puppet on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install puppet using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install puppet

Install puppet on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install puppet using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install puppet

How To Uninstall puppet on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the puppet package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove puppet

puppet Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/logrotate.d/puppet
/usr/lib/NetworkManager
/usr/lib/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d
/usr/lib/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/98-puppet
/usr/lib/systemd/system/puppet.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/puppetagent.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/puppet.conf

References

puppet website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install puppet on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.