2017 CHPC National Conference

Session

7 Dec 2017, 09:00

Velmoré Hotel Estate

Description

In this workshop we will install and configure Puppet 5, a configuration management system, to manage our compute cluster.

We will install and configure the Puppet server, PuppetDB database, a Puppet agent and multiple modules from the Puppet Forge. Best practises will be implemented, including using Hiera and saving configurations to Git.

The workshop will be hands-on. Please ensure you have a working installation of Hyper-V, VMware (Workstation or Player) or VirtualBox. Copies of the VMDK/VHDX files will be provided.

Contribution list Timetable

17. HPC configuration management using Puppet 5

Mr Charl Möller (University of Stellenbosch)

07/12/2017, 09:00

Workshops

Workshop/BoF proposal

In this workshop we will install and configure Puppet 5, a configuration management system, to manage our compute cluster. We will install and configure the Puppet server, PuppetDB database, a Puppet agent and multiple modules from the Puppet Forge. Best practises will be implemented, including using Hiera and saving configurations to Git. The workshop will be hands-on. Please ensure you...