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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install puppet using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install puppet
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install puppet using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install puppet
How To Uninstall puppet on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the puppet package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove puppet
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install puppet on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
