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Puppet is a cross-platform configuration management tool

Puppet is a cross-platform configuration management tool.

Puppet can run either in a standalone or client/server deployment to manage the configuration, deployment, and patching of both operating systems and applications. It is available as both open source and commercial software.

More info: https://puppetlabs.com/puppet/what-is-puppet/

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What's the difference between Juju and Puppet/Chef?

Have tried asking 3rd party about key differences between Juju and Puppet/Chef. 3rd parties are not too familiar with Juju and could not say. They simply stated the others have a lot of momentum, and it would be hard to overcome their lead. Would…
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How to change Gsettings via remote shell?

I need to automate desktop configuration via Puppet, virtual terminal or ssh. Unfortunately, invocation of gsettings via ssh or virtual terminal gives: gsettings set org.compiz.core:/org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/core/ hsize…
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How to copy files to all machines using puppet master?

I have installed puppetmaster in ubuntu 11.04 and i have installed puppet in all my clients. I have joined all my puppet clients with puppet master. Is it possible to copy a file to all these puppet clients from puppet master? For example: I have…
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How to copy file to all clients using puppet?

How do I copy files to all clients using puppet? I have setup a puppet server and clients and I have tested the connection which was working fine. I am not a puppet expert, I am just a beginner, and I just want to know how to copy files to all…
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How can I manage and deploy snap packages without using the official Snap store from Canonical?

I was wondering if it would be possible to create and self-host a repository of snap packages which could then be deployed / updated via something like Puppet, Chef or Ansible. Is this feasible, or are there some mechanisms within snaps that would…
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How do I install a puppetmaster?

I have a fairly large network, and I need to use some sort of configuration management tool to manage it. I've decided that Puppet Open Source meets my needs. How do I install it?
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systemctl cannot disable services, displays upstart errors

On my Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) server, I cannot disable services from autostarting at boot. I get these error messages: $ sudo systemctl disable puppet.service ... initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart:…
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How to change the wallpaper of all clients using puppet?

I have set up puppet (Central Management Server). Can anyone tell me how to change wallpapers of all clients from this puppet server?
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How to setup Puppet server?

I would like to setup Central Management Server (PUPPET) to manage all clients. I have read many documentations, but none of them was helpful. Can anyone explain setting up puppet server in detail? Where we have to create the following files in…
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How do I remove a user from the dpkg-statoverride file?

Tried to install a package after deleting some servers I no longer needed, and removing the deleted software package's users and groups. Went to fetch and install a new package, and got the following error. user@localhost~$ sudo apt-get install…
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Is there a tool like Juju or Chef that I can use to automate the set up of my computer?

There are a lot of tools (chef, puppet, juju) out there to automate server deployments and set ups. How can these be used for automating my laptop set up? I want to be able to do nothing but run a command and sit back while everything is installed…
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Why do signed deb packages say they're not authenticated when copied to my private deb repo?

Quick Version I have set up a private deb repository and copied some signed deb packages into it. I have installed the signing key locally. However when I try to install from the repo I get this warning: WARNING: The following packages cannot be…
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IPv6 is disabled, but netfilter-persistent complains with `ip6tables-save v1.6.1: Cannot initialize: Address family not supported by protocol`

I've disabled IPv6 on a set of Docker nodes following the instructions from Disabling IPv6 in Ubuntu Server 18.04. However, netfilter-persistent is still complaining about IPv6: root@docker10:~# netfilter-persistent save run-parts: executing…
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Ubuntu 12.04 shutdown does not finish

When i shutdown my ubuntu 12,04 appears the "shutdown screen" and it never finish, keep shutting down... i use "tab key" to see the log and the last line says "Stopping Puppet Agent"... and it never ends (i need to either keep pushing power button…
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Which puppetlabs release package to choose?

When looking at http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ there are puppetlabs packages, for the different Debian and Ubuntu releases. But apart from that there is the standard edition (like puppetlabs-release-trusty.deb) and the puppet collection 1 edition (like…
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