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+date: 2015-03-14
+title: Bootstrapping a Puppet master
+category: devops
+---
+
+Installing a Puppetmaster is a bit of a chicken-egg problem. We want to
+have our environment as automated and slick as possible, but we
+currently have no tools installed to to so.
+
+So what do we actually need to install and configure for our Puppet
+master:
+
+-   Puppet
+-   Hiera
+-   R10k
+-   Git
+
+This is the minimum, from this it can go ahead and dogfood itself in my
+prefered fashion.
+
+I do this with a bit of bash that I threw together during a meeting. I
+use only bash as that is the only thing I can be guaranteed to have on a
+clean install.
+
+If you trust me then simply run:
+
+    curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chriscowley/puppetmaster-bootstrap/master/bootstrap.sh | sudo -E sh
+
+If not, or of you want to control it a bit more, then clone it. If you
+modify it I\'ll happily accept pull requests.
+
+    git clone https://github.com/chriscowley/puppetmaster-bootstrap.git
+    cd puppetmaster-bootstrap
+    ./bootstrap.sh
+
+There are a few environment variables you can use to control it:
+
+-   PMB\_CONFIGURE\_GIT : Whether to install/configure Git (defaults=1)
+-   PMB\_CONFIGURE\_R10k : Whether to install/configure R10k
+    (defaults=1)
+-   PMB\_TEST : Only tell you what it would do, but nothing actually
+    happens
+-   PMB\_INSTALL\_POSTRECEIVE : Install the post-receive git hook
+    (default=1)
+
+I have tried to use sensible defaults, at least for my purposes.