Using Puppet
Puppet is a very popular configuration management tool on a variety of platforms. Here you'll find tips on using Pupppet on SmartOS.
Installation via PKG-SRC¶
The easiest way to get started with Puppet is to install it from PKG-SRC. To get started, ensure that pkgin is installed. See https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/
Now, simply install either the ruby18-puppet or ruby19-puppet package, as you prefer. All dependencies will be installed as needed:
# pkgin in ruby19-puppet
calculating dependencies... done.
nothing to upgrade.
5 packages to be installed: libiconv-1.14nb2 db4-4.8.30 ruby19-facter-1.6.10nb1 ruby19-base-1.9.2pl320 ruby19-puppet-2.7.18nb1 (105M to download, 0B to install)
proceed ? [Y/n] y
downloading packages...
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