Puppet, an automated administrative engine for your Linux and Unix systems, performs
administrative tasks (such as adding users, installing packages, and updating server
configurations) based on a centralized specification.
Documentation (and detailed install instructions) can be found
online at the Puppet Wiki.
Installation
Generally, you need the following things installed:
Ruby >= 1.8.1 (earlier releases might work but probably not)
The Ruby OpenSSL library. For some reason, this often isn't included
in the main ruby distributions. You can test for it by running
'ruby -ropenssl -e "puts :yep"'. If that errors out, you're missing the
library.
If your distribution doesn't come with the necessary library (e.g., on Debian
and Ubuntu you need to install libopenssl-ruby), then you'll probably have to
compile Ruby yourself, since it's part of the standard library and not
available separately. You could probably just compile and install that one
library, though.
The Ruby XMLRPC client and server libraries. For some reason, this often
isn't included in the main ruby distributions. You can test for it by
running 'ruby -rxmlrpc/client -e "puts :yep"'. If that errors out, you're missing
the library.
Facter => 1.1.1
You can get this from your package management system or the Facter site
