Installing and configuring a reference implementation

The starter content repository provides reference implementations of Puppet roles and profiles for Linux and Windows web server stacks, utility scripts to prepare the primary server for vRO, and a templated autosigning script. Once you understand how Puppet, vRO, and vRA work together, you can use these reference implementations to help build your own Puppetized vRO/vRA implementations.

If you’re already experienced with Puppet, vRO, and vRA, you can replace this reference implementation with your own code or control repository.

The vRO starter content creates a PE RBAC user and Linux user account on them primary server (both are named vro-plugin-user, default password puppetlabs) and adds rules to the sudoers file allowing it to run commands with elevated privileges as required by the plug-in.

It also adds the following settings to the primary server's sshd_config:

PermitRootLogin yes
PasswordAuthentication yes
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

puppet resource package puppet-strings provider=puppet_gem

Role class descriptions come from the @summary tag in your Puppet code, which puppet-strings can digest. The vRO starter content role and profile classes already have this built-in. To do this with your own role classes, add a @summary line with a 140 characters or less description. For example:

# This role installs a MySQL databse and sample data
#
# @summary MySQL database server on Linux with sample data
class role::linux_mysql_database {
  include profile::linux_baseline
  include profile::mysql
  include profile::sample_data
}