Adapting the repo for your own use

You will need to change some of the data and settings in the demo repo to be able to use it yourself. To get you started, here is a table showing which files to change and what information you'll need to supply, with more detailed explanations in the following sections:

File	What to change
data/common.yaml	users: Users and SSH keys allow_users: Users allowed to log in to nodes sudoers: Users allowed to sudo
manifests/site.pp	Node definitions for the nodes you are managing
site-modules/role/manifests/	Role classes for your nodes (include profile::common in each one)
scripts/puppify	PUPPET_REPO: Git URL of your Puppet repo IDENTITY: Path to the SSH key for initial bootstrap of nodes, if you need one

Configuring users

As we saw earlier in this chapter, the user accounts managed by Puppet are configured from Hiera data. Edit the data/common.yaml file, which looks like this:

  users:
    'john':
      comment: 'John Arundel...