Puppet Master¶

The puppetmaster server is named puppetmaster for historical reasons - it no longer runs a puppetmaster process. There is a centralized ‘hiera’ database that contains secure information such as passwords. The puppetmaster server contains all of the ansible playbooks to run puppet apply as well as the scripts to create new servers.

At a Glance¶

Projects

https://puppetlabs.com/

Bugs

Resources

Puppet Language Reference

Puppet Driving Ansible Driving Puppet¶

In OpenStack Infra, there are ansible playbooks that drive the running of puppet apply on all of the hosts in the inventory. That process first copies appropriate hiera data files to each host.

The cron jobs, current configuration files and more can be done with puppet apply but first some bootstrapping needs to be done.

You want to install these from puppetlabs’ apt repo. There is a script, system-config: install_puppet.sh in the root of the system-config repository that will setup and install the puppet client. After that you must install the ansible playbooks and hiera config (used to maintain secrets).

Ansible and Puppet 3 is known to run on Precise, Trusty, Centos 6 and Centos 7.

sudo su -
git clone https://opendev.org/opendev/system-config /opt/system-config
bash /opt/system-config/install_puppet.sh
bash /opt/system-config/install_modules.sh
echo $REAL_HOSTNAME > /etc/hostname
service hostname restart
puppet apply --modulepath='/opt/system-config/modules:/etc/puppet/modules' -e 'include openstack_project::puppetmaster'

Hiera uses a systemwide configuration file in /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml and this setup supports multiple configurations. The two sets of environments that OpenStack Infrastructure uses are production and development. production is the default and the environment used when nothing else is specified.

The hiera configuration is placed by puppet apply into common.yaml in /etc/puppet/hieradata/production and /etc/puppet/hieradata/development. The values are simple key-value pairs in yaml format. The keys needed are the keys referenced in your site.pp, their values are typically obvious (strings, lists of strings). /etc/puppet/hieradata/ and below should be owned by puppet:puppet and have mode 0711.

Below the hieradata directory, there should be a common.yaml file where settings that should be available to all servers in the infrastructure go, and then two directories full of files. The first is fqdn which should contain a yaml file for every server in the infrastructure named ${fqdn_of_server}.yaml. That file has secrets that are only for that server. Additionally, some servers can have a $group defined in manifests/site.pp. There can be a correspondingly named yaml file in the group directory that contains secrets to be made available to each server in the group.

All of the actual yaml files should have mode 0600 and be owned by root.

Adding a node¶

For adding a new node to your puppet master, you can either use the /opt/system-config/launch/launch-node.py script (see system-config: launch/README.rst for full details) or bootstrap puppet manually.

For manual bootstrap, you need to run on the new server connecting (for example, review.opendev.org) to the puppet master:

sudo su -
wget https://opendev.org/opendev/system-config/raw/branch/master/install_puppet.sh
bash -x install_puppet.sh

Running Puppet on Nodes¶

In OpenStack’s Infrastructure, puppet runs are triggered from a cronjob running on the puppetmaster which in turn runs a single run of puppet apply on each host we know about.

The entry point for this process is /opt/system-config/run_all.sh

There are a few sets of nodes which have their own playbooks so that they are run in sequence before the rest of the nodes are run in parallel. At the moment, this allows creation of git repos on the git slaves before creation of the master repos on the gerrit server.

If an admin needs to run puppet by hand, it’s a simple matter of either logging in to the server in question and running puppet apply /opt/system-config/manifests/site.pp or, on the puppetmaster, running:

ansible-playbook --limit="$HOST:localhost" /opt/system-config/playbooks/remote_puppet_adhoc.yaml

as root, where $HOST is the host you want to run puppet on. The :localhost is important as some of the plays depend on performing a task on the localhost before continuing to the host in question, and without it in the limit section, the tasks for the host will have undefined values. There is also a script, tools/kick.sh that takes the host as an argument and runs the above command.

Testing new puppet code can be done via puppet apply –noop or by constructing a VM with a puppet install in it and just running puppet apply on the code in question. This should actually make it fairly easy to test how production works in a more self-contained manner.

Disabling Puppet on Nodes¶

In the case of needing to disable the running of puppet on a node, it’s a simple matter of adding an entry to the ansible inventory “disabled” group. See the Disable/Enable Puppet section for more details.

Important Notes¶

Make sure the site manifest does not include the puppet cron job, this conflicts with puppet master and can cause issues. The initial puppet run that create users should be done using the puppet apply configuration above.

Puppet Master