Punchy Puppets Mac OS
Puppet is an open-source admin engine that uses a network of master and client nodes to help you perform administrative tasks remotely. The Puppet agent app, used to create client nodes, is available on Linux, Unix, Windows, and macOS.
Punch, in full Punchinello, Italian Pulcinella, hooknosed, humpbacked character, the most popular of marionettes and glove puppets and the chief figure in the Punch-and-Judy puppet show. Brutal, vindictive, and deceitful, he is usually at odds with authority. His character had roots in the Roman clown and the comic country bumpkin. The work is composed of a total of 4 acts with about 15 minutes. The images and characters of this work are based on one of China’s intangible cultural heritage: Shadow Puppets, and the story and music of the game are based on another China’s intangible cultural heritage: Beijing Opera.
In this tutorial, we will go over the steps you need to take to install Puppet Agent on macOS.
- A system running macOS Catalina
- A user with admin-level privileges
- Access to the terminal window
Running Puppet involves installing a Puppet Server that acts as the master node and deploying a Puppet Agent that acts as the client node.
Official Puppet Server packages support Linux distributions only. Users can build and install Puppet Server on any OS from source, but running it that way is not recommended for a production server.
In the steps below, we install and configure the Puppet Server on Ubuntu and then set up the Puppet Agent on macOS.
Perform a complete installation of Puppet on a Linux system. This system serves as the master node in your Puppet network.
Follow the steps outlined in our article to install Puppet on Ubuntu.
Puppet uses hostnames to set up communication between the master and client nodes. Set up a unique hostname for each node (both on master and client machines):
1. In the terminal, open the hosts file by using:
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2. Add the following lines at the end of the hosts file:
Where:
[puppet master ip]is the IP address of the master node.[puppet client ip]is the IP address of the client node running macOS.
3. Press Ctrl + X to close the file, and then type Y and press Enter to save the changes you made.
1. Browse to the Puppet Agent download page.
Puppet Agent packages for macOS use the following naming convention:
Where:
[package version]details the version of Puppet Agent.[OS version]details the supported version of macOS.
2. Find and download the desired Puppet Agent package.
Note: At the time of writing this article, Puppet supports macOS 10.12 (Sierra), 10.13 (High Sierra), 10.14 (Mojave), and 10.15 (Catalina).
The Puppet Agent can be installed on macOS Homebrew or via terminal.
1. If you don’t already have Homebrew, install it using:
If you already have a copy of Homebrew, update it with:
2. With the latest version of Homebrew, install the Puppet Agent with:
1. Mount the Puppet Agent package by using:
Where:
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[dmg file path]is the file path for the package download location.
2. After mounting the package, an output line appears ending with /Volumes/puppet-agent-[version], where [version] is the version of the Puppet Agent you are installing. Change the directory to this point with:
3. Install the package using:
4. Verify the installation with:
After following this tutorial, you should have a copy of Puppet Agent set up on your macOS system.
Find out more about Puppet and how it stacks up against other IaC tools in our Ansible vs Terraform vs Puppet comparison article.