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Learning Puppet for Windows Server

You're reading from   Learning Puppet for Windows Server Organize your Windows environment using Puppet tools to unload administrative burdens in a short time!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785281877
Length 234 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fuat Ulugay Fuat Ulugay
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing Puppet Server and Foreman FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Puppet Agents 3. Your First Modules 4. Puppet Forge Modules for Windows 5. Puppet Facts, Functions, and Templates 6. Using Puppet for Windows Security 7. Reporting and Monitoring 8. Installing Software and Updates Index

Managing the node certificates

One of the important areas that we need to cover is the management of the host certificates. Puppet uses certificates for a secure connection between the Puppet Master and the hosts. Without signing the certificates, it is not possible to manage any host. For the management of the certificates, we have the following two options:

  • Using the Foreman UI
  • Using the Puppet Master server terminal with SSH

Displaying the certificates

Let's start with the Foreman UI, which we are already familiar with. In the previous section, Signing the certificate, we already added a host and signed its certificate. To refresh our memory, let's do it again.

Go to Infrastructure | Smart Proxies from the top menu. In the next screen, click on Certificates. As you can see in the following screenshot, we have four hosts at the moment. One of them has been already signed and the others are waiting to be signed:

Displaying the certificates

Now, let's check this from the terminal. The commands are as follows...

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