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Notes on Bootstrapping This Host

Presented without comment:

Package updates:
```
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
```
Install Git:
```
apt-get install git
```

Set hostname:

echo 'grimoire' > /etc/hostname
sed -i -e $'s,ubuntu,grimoire.ca\tgrimoire,' /etc/hosts
poweroff

To verify:

hostname -f # => grimoire.ca
hostname    # => grimoire

Add owen user:

adduser owen
adduser owen sudo

To verify:

id owen # => uid=1000(owen) gid=1000(owen) groups=1000(owen),27(sudo)

Install Puppetlabs Repos:

wget https://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-pc1-trusty.deb
dpkg -i puppetlabs-release-pc1-trusty.deb
apt-get update

Install Puppet server:

apt-get install puppetserver
sed -i \
    -e '/^JAVA_ARGS=/ s,2g,512m,g' \
    -e '/^JAVA_ARGS=/ s, -XX:MaxPermSize=256m,,' \
    /etc/default/puppetserver
service puppetserver start

Test Puppet agent:

/opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet agent --test --server grimoire.ca

This should output the following:

Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Caching catalog for grimoire.ca
Info: Applying configuration version '1446415926'
Info: Creating state file /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/cache/state/state.yaml
Notice: Applied catalog in 0.01 seconds

Install environment:

git init --bare /root/puppet.git
# From workstation, `git push root@grimoire.ca:puppet.git master` to populate the repo
rm -rf /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production
git clone /root/puppet.git /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production

Bootstrap puppet:

/opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet agent --test --server grimoire.ca