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Introduction

Puppet is a configuration automation tool that allows you to centralize management of the various Linux flavors running on your network. Puppet supports central management of the important aspects of your systems, such as: files, packages, users, services, cron, mounts, etc.

This is a step by step tutorial on how to install the Puppet Server (puppetmaster) on one machine, and the Puppet Client (puppetd) on another. We then perform a simple test to make sure Puppet is working properly.