Puppet #5 - Install Puppet server open source v7 & three clients in GCP

In this video we'll install four VMs in GCP and configure them as a lab for Puppet training videos. Puppet server opensource v.7 will run on a Rocky Linux, one client runs also on Rocky Linux, one client on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and the third client on Windows Server 2022 Data Center.
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Timestamp:
0:00 Intro
0:40 GCP VM overview
1:11 Setting up four VMs in GCP
2:25 GCP Internal ephemeral IP
2:50 Remote Access GCP VMs
3:27 Create new SSH key
3:48 SSH into GCP VM
4:03 RDP into GCP VM Windows Server 2022
4:55 GCP Default Firewall
5:50 Puppet Enterprise requirements
6:10 Installing Puppet Server Opensource v.7
6:34 Enable puppet repo & install
6:50 Reduce puppet memory allocation
7:13 Enable & start puppet service
7:29 Puppet environment variables
8:04 Adding IP & hostnames to /etc/hosts
9:03 Installing puppet client Rocky Linux
10:03 Client1 Rocky, create SSL certificate
10:35 Puppet server, sign certificate client1
11:06 Installing puppet client2 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
12:35 Installing puppet client3 Windows Server 2022
13:02 Installing puppet agent on Windows
13:28 Adding IP/hostnames to Windows Server
13:55 Start puppet from Windows CLI

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Used commands:
ssh-keygen -t ed25519

# installing puppet server on Rocky
sudo su -
dnf install -y puppetserver
vim /etc/sysconfig/puppetserver
sed -i 's/Xms2g/Xms512m/' /etc/sysconfig/puppetserver
sed -i 's/Xmx2g/Xmx512m/' /etc/sysconfig/puppetserver
systemctl start puppetserver
systemctl enable puppetserver
systemctl status puppetserver
exec bash
puppetserver -v
env | grep puppet

vim /etc/hosts
10.132.0.20 puppet
10.132.0.21 client1 rocky
10.132.0.22 client2 ubuntu
10.132.0.24 client3 windows

ping client1
ping ubuntu
ping windows

# installing puppet agent on Rocky
sudo su -
dnf install puppet-agent
systemctl start puppet
systemctl enable puppet
systemctl status puppet
exit
sudo su -
puppet ssl bootstrap
puppet agent --test

# on server
puppetserver ca list
puppetserver ca sign --certname client1

# on client
puppet agent --test

vim /etc/hosts
10.132.0.20 puppet
10.132.0.21 client1 rocky
10.132.0.22 client2 ubuntu
10.132.0.24 client3 windows

ping puppet
ping client2
ping client3

# installing puppet agent on Ubuntu
sudo su -
apt update
apt upgrade -y
apt update
apt install puppet-agent
systemctl start puppet
systemctl enable puppet
systemctl status puppet
exit
sudo su -
puppet ssl bootstrap
puppet agent --test

# on server
puppetserver ca list
puppetserver ca sign --certname client2

# on client
puppet agent --test

vim /etc/hosts
10.132.0.20 puppet
10.132.0.21 client1 rocky
10.132.0.22 client2 ubuntu
10.132.0.24 client3 windows

ping puppet
ping rocky
ping windows

# installing puppet agent on Windows

# Open PowerShell as admin:
puppet agent -t

# on server
puppetserver ca list
puppetserver ca sign --certname client3

# on client open PowerShell as admin:
puppet agent --test