Secrets detection and removal Secrets scanning policy Scan execution policies can be setup at the group level, it’s common for something like a secrets detection to be setup at the top level so i...

Configuring LDAP in Puppet If you’re preparing to connect your Puppet Enterprise system to your production LDAP or you just want to learn a bit more about LDAP, it’s useful to test it out in a lab...

Puppet 8 readiness with Onceover Puppet 8 has been released, with it comes security enhancements, the dropping of deprecated features, and performance improvements, you can read more about Puppet ...

ssh-keygen automation For a while I’ve wondered how to run ssh-keygen on a machine without user input, I’ve wanted to do this when deploying new machines in a CI/CD pipeline where I can’t answer s...

Terraform automatic inputs I build my test or development environments on AWS using Terraform, to keep them reasonably secure I include a list of IP’s in the ingress list for the security group. O...

Puppet Postgres Having a look around It’s worth remembering that on an x-large infrastructure, some of these databases such as pe-rbac still exist on the PE server where as the pe-puppetdb will be...

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Presuming OSP (Open Source Puppet) has already been installed, as has git. Install the r10k gem: /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/gem install r10k Check the installation /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/r10k...