Installing Foreman and Puppet Agent on Multiple VMs Using Vagrant and VirtualBox

Set up your environment:

1. Install Virtualbox ("tested" with v5.1.18)
2. Install Vagrant ("tested" with v1.9.1)
3. vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanger
4. vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
5. vagrant plugin install vagrant-triggers
6. git clone git@github.com:mrwulf/vagrant-playground.git
7. cd vagrant-playground/Workspace
8. Clone your puppet repository into Workspace/puppet. For example: hg clone -b production <REPOSITORY-URL> puppet
9. Clone your hiera repository into Workspace/puppet. For example: hg clone -b hiera <REPOSITORY-URL> hiera
10. cd ..
11. vagrant up theforeman.example.com

Iterate

1. Stand up the server/cluster you're working on.
   • vagrant up cassandra-01.example.com cassandra-02.example.com cassandra-03.example.com
2. Make changes to puppet/hiera config.
3. Inspect and run puppet on nodes.
   • vagrant ssh <node>.example.com
   • sudo puppet agent --test
4. Profit! (Or start node over with vagrant destroy <node>.example.com)

Where Things Are

• Foreman login:
  • https://theforeman.example.com/
  • admin/admin
• Foreman node definition: /nodes.js
• Other node definitions: /Workspace/nodes.js
• Hostgroup definitions: /Workspace/nodes.js

Useful Multi-VM Commands

The use of the specific name is optional in most cases.

• vagrant halt
• vagrant up <machine>
• vagrant reload <machine>
• vagrant destroy -f <machine> && vagrant up <machine>
• vagrant status <machine>
• vagrant ssh <machine>
• vagrant global-status