Setup Puppet Certs

Question : Puppet master is running on jump host itself (also note that Puppet master node is also running as Puppet CA server) and Puppet agent is running on App Server 1. Since it is a fresh set up, the team wants to sign certificates for puppet master as well as puppet agent nodes so that they can proceed with the next steps of set up. You can find more details about the task below:

Puppet server and agent nodes are already have required packages, but you may need to start puppetserver (on master) and puppet service on both nodes.

Assign and sign certificates for both master and agent node.

Please Note :-  Perform the below commands based on your question  server,  user name & other details might differ . So please read task carefully before executing. All the Best 👍

Solution:  

 1. As per the Hint check Hosts file on jumpserver and add the alias 

    vi /etc/hosts

 2. Now login on app server  ssh tony@stapp01 ( Refer your task)

 3. Switch to  root user : sudo su - 

 4.  Edit Hosts file and add the puppet server ( Jumpserver )  & on App Server

    vi /etc/hosts

5.  Restart the  puppet service on App server

6.  Sign certificate on puppet server ( refer below video )

7.  Click on Finish & Confirm to complete the task successful

Happy Learning!!!!

Apart from this if you need more clarity,  I have made a  tutorial video on this , please go through and share your comments. Like and share the knowledge