Don’t read this. This was using the wrong documentation. There was a version mismatch between what was being used and what was installed that was causing the confusion. The next articles do not have this problem.
So, after last week’s total failure to properly design a transition plan, I’m going to backup everything everywhere and rebuild from scratch using the future state. One of the problems with organic architecture is that it is so interconnected that moving away from it is unmanageable without sacrifice.
To best prepare, I’ve got a recent fascination with the concept of orchestration in SOA– and an SOA design is most definitely what future state will become by design.
I have decided that I am going to get out of a cycle with my own projects where I will sacrifice sane planning and attention to detail to speed up whatever flavorful project I am interested in that week by investing in a model.
So, we’re doing this right. Right now, I need orchestration. A video explaining what the fuck I’m talking about is here. I’ve selected puppet as the means to do that.
Over the next couple of weeks I will evolve this into a how-to for setting up a puppet master.
My new puppet master is slotted to be oldhorse.surroindustries.com, a fresh install of Ubuntu Server Xenial 16.04 LTS on an on-Premises Poweredge rack server with six blades.
They’ve got a .deb package for it, which further concerns me that I may have wanted to select Debian for my default distribution (but I haven’t test driven Debian for anything serious yet and want stability with this build). The package Xenial is not fully supported as a public candidate, so I may run into issues later. It is located here:
https://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-pc1-xenial.deb
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Adding debian:certSIGN_ROOT_CA.pem Adding debian:SecureTrust_CA.pem Adding debian:thawte_Primary_Root_CA_-_G2.pem Adding debian:Camerfirma_Global_Chambersign_Root.pem Adding debian:DigiCert_Trusted_Root_G4.pem Adding debian:Verisign_Class_1_Public_Primary_Certification_Authority_-_G2.pem Adding debian:DigiCert_Assured_ID_Root_G2.pem Adding debian:DigiCert_Global_Root_G3.pem Adding debian:Chambers_of_Commerce_Root_-_2008.pem Adding debian:Cybertrust_Global_Root.pem Adding debian:VeriSign_Class_3_Public_Primary_Certification_Authority_-_G5.pem Adding debian:Izenpe.com.pem Adding debian:CA_Disig_Root_R1.pem Adding debian:Secure_Global_CA.pem Adding debian:SwissSign_Gold_CA_-_G2.pem Adding debian:GlobalSign_Root_CA_-_R2.pem Adding debian:Atos_TrustedRoot_2011.pem Adding debian:Verisign_Class_2_Public_Primary_Certification_Authority_-_G2.pem Adding debian:IdenTrust_Commercial_Root_CA_1.pem Adding debian:SwissSign_Silver_CA_-_G2.pem Adding debian:Buypass_Class_3_Root_CA.pem Adding 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Processing triggers for ca-certificates (20160104ubuntu1) ... Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs... 0 added, 0 removed; done. Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d... done. done. Setting up openjdk-8-jre-headless:amd64 (8u91-b14-3ubuntu1~16.04.1) ... update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/rmid to provide /usr/bin/rmid (rmid) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java to provide /usr/bin/java (java) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/keytool to provide /usr/bin/keytool (keytool) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/jjs to provide /usr/bin/jjs (jjs) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/pack200 to provide /usr/bin/pack200 (pack200) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/rmiregistry to provide /usr/bin/rmiregistry (rmiregistry) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/unpack200 to provide /usr/bin/unpack200 (unpack200) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/orbd to provide /usr/bin/orbd (orbd) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/servertool to provide /usr/bin/servertool (servertool) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/tnameserv to provide /usr/bin/tnameserv (tnameserv) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/jexec to provide /usr/bin/jexec (jexec) in auto mode Setting up puppetserver (2.6.0-1puppetlabs1) ... usermod: no changes Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu7) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ... [ phanes@oldhorse ] << ~ >> [- sudo apt-get update Hit:1 https://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease Get:2 https://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [95.7 kB] Ign:3 https://apt.puppetlabs.com xenial InRelease Get:4 https://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [94.5 kB] Hit:5 https://apt.puppetlabs.com xenial Release Hit:6 https://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease Fetched 190 kB in 0s (213 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done [ phanes@oldhorse ] << ~ >> [-
Now, in my case, I’ve got alot of expertise built up over the years for managing “single linux servers”, and I do it well, but, I have to admit, when it comes to managing clusters of linux servers in the manner I’ll be doing here, I’m still deep in learning, because it works completely differently. Orchestration is a completely new thing to me and I’m still unsure of its capabilities. What I do know though is that once you start using orchestration you need to manage each node, including the master node, with that orchestration layer for the entire server lifecycle or it gets out of hand, so I’ve got to break my habit of fixing things on the fly using traditional tools– which I’m trying to do anyway for other reasons.
Anyway, puppetmaster package is now installed.
I am following a guide here, which has turned out not to be accurate:
https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/3.8/reference/install_debian_ubuntu.html
Everything works as expected until you get to this instruction:
sudo puppet resource package puppetmaster ensure=latest
Which, on running, is clearly inaccurate:
[ phanes@oldhorse ] << ~ >> [- sudo puppet resource package puppetmaster ensure=latest sudo: puppet: command not found [ phanes@oldhorse ] << ~ >> [- echo $PATH /home/phanes/bin:/home/phanes/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/opt/puppetlabs/bin [ phanes@oldhorse ] << ~ >> [- which puppet /opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet [ phanes@oldhorse ] << ~ >> [- sudo su - root@oldhorse:~# which puppet /opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet root@oldhorse:~# echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin:/opt/puppetlabs/bin
Oddly enough, in freenode/#puppet I was told I should be “configuring my environment”, whatever that means. Wtf. You would think the guides or package would set this up for you, or at least be accurate for such a widely used tool.
Maybe it’s because I’m using the public candidate?
Luckily for me, since it’s in root’s path (and that user’s path, but not that user using sudo’s path, weird, i can just run it as root:
root@oldhorse:~# puppet resource package puppetmaster ensure=latest Warning: Facter: Could not process routing table entry: Expected a destination followed by key/value pairs, got '192.168.122.0/24 dev virbr0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.122.1 linkdown' Error: Could not update: Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install puppetmaster' returned 100: Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: puppetmaster : Depends: puppetmaster-common (= 3.8.5-2) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Error: /Package[puppetmaster]/ensure: change from purged to latest failed: Could not update: Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install puppetmaster' returned 100: Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: puppetmaster : Depends: puppetmaster-common (= 3.8.5-2) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. package { 'puppetmaster': ensure => 'purged', }
Says puppetmaster-common is not installed which it needs, and apparently there was an error trying to install it. So let’s install that and see what happens:
root@oldhorse:~# apt-get install puppetmaster-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: puppetmaster-common : Depends: puppet-common (= 3.8.5-2) E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Looks like another unmanaged dependency: puppet-common
This sucks.
root@oldhorse:~# apt-get install puppet-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: ca-certificates-java fontconfig-config fonts-dejavu-core java-common libcups2 libfontconfig1 liblcms2-2 libxi6 libxrender1 libxtst6 openjdk-8-jre-headless x11-common Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. 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Ok, puppet-common is installed. Now for puppetmaster-common:
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Making some progress.
Oddly enough, that changed the location of the puppet binary:
root@oldhorse:~# puppet resource package puppetmaster ensure=latest -su: /opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet: No such file or directory root@oldhorse:~# which puppet /usr/bin/puppet
Seriously weird. Why?
So, reloaded the root profile and tried again:
root@oldhorse:~# exit logout [ phanes@oldhorse ] << ~ >> [- sudo su - root@oldhorse:~# which puppet /usr/bin/puppet root@oldhorse:~# puppet resource package puppetmaster ensure=latest Notice: /Package[puppetmaster]/ensure: ensure changed 'purged' to 'latest' package { 'puppetmaster': ensure => '3.8.5-2', } root@oldhorse:~#
And we’re good. Time to move on with what is turning out to be a rather inaccurate guide.
[ phanes@oldhorse ] << ~ >> [- service puppet restart ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units === Authentication is required to restart 'puppet.service'. Authenticating as: Chris Punches,,, (phanes) Password: ==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE === [ phanes@oldhorse ] << ~ >> [-
Now that puppetmaster is updated and the service is restarted, the official guide wants me to install puppet on the agent nodes. I won’t be doing that in that order. First, I’m setting up my master where I’ll decide how the nodes will be configured.
I’ve gone ahead and installed puppet agent on this machine as well since I want the master service to control this host as well.
Enter certificates. First, I’ll need to name the puppet service for the nodes. According to the guide that’s in puppet.conf. Since they did not specify a default path in the official documentation, I’ll have to look for it. I’m sure it’ll be simple and straightforward since this is a fresh install of Ubuntu Xenial and only the steps in this article have been made so far:
root@oldhorse:/etc# ls puppet* puppet: auth.conf etckeeper-commit-pre manifests puppet.conf etckeeper-commit-post fileserver.conf modules puppetlabs: code mcollective puppet puppetserver root@oldhorse:/etc# ls puppetlabs/puppet auth.conf hiera.yaml puppet.conf ssl root@oldhorse:/etc#
Nope. I really think something’s wrong with this guide. So from here, we need figure out which puppet configuration file the puppet master is actually using.
We have:
/etc/puppet/puppet.conf /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/puppet.conf
Because god forbid naming conventions be defined by utility.
And, of course:
<Phanes> is the puppet master service reading from /etc/puppet/puppet.conf or /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/puppet.conf ? The guide ended up with both. <binford2k> Phanes: are you certain that you have the packages from puppetlabs and not from your distro? * vodka has quit (Ping timeout: 265 seconds) <Phanes> binford2k, https://phanes.silogroup.org/orchestration-puppet-master/ <binford2k> Phanes: and what's the reason for starting with puppet 3.x and not 4.x? * eeeprom has quit (Remote host closed the connection) * toky (~cruzmi@c-73-216-201-252.hsd1.va.comcast.net) has joined #puppet <binford2k> oh, wait. You're reading the docs for puppet 3 and installing puppet 4? <Phanes> oh you've got to be kidding me <Phanes> ffs, i need to reinstall this server os
HA! There’s nothing wrong with the guide, it’s for a previous version!
On their official site as the first hit from google. No warnings. You have to browse around the site to see that it’s an old version. No wonder nothing’s making sense. I can’t believe this, I just wasted a whole night on this.
Time to nuke the server and start again, even more pissed off than I am now. Since I have other shit to do, I’m putting it off until tomorrow.