Welcome back! In our 201 class, we installed r10k, but we still haven’t used it. There’s two tasks we need to complete. First, the existing repo is incompatible with r10k’s dynamic management of modules, so we’ll convert its contents to the proper format. Once that is done, we can deploy dynamic environments using r10k.

Convert existing repo

Check out a clone of the existing puppet repo, rnelson0/puppet-tutorial. As mentioned previously, you can do this on the puppet master, as I will do, or you can perform it on another machine. If you’re on the master, you want to clone the repo into a different directory. After cloning it, check out a new branch called production:

Continue reading →