How To Install puppet on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install puppet
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install puppet.
Install puppet on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install puppet
using yum
by running the following command:
Install puppet on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install puppet
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall puppet on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the puppet
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install puppet
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.