large_deploy.md

PE Large Architecture

Overview

This module can also be used to deploy a Puppet Enterprise Large Architecture. Such an deployment differs from an Extra Large Architecture in that it does not include an external database. PuppetDB is served from the master.

NOTE: Currently, the module does not deploy a Large Architecture with HA. The currently supported deployment architecture is shown below.

Instructions

The process for deploying a PE Large Architecture is very similar to the basic_usage for deploying the XL Architecture. These two differ only in the parameters supplied to the bolt plans. Specifically, the puppetdb_database_host, master_replica_host, and puppetdb_database_replica_host parameters need to be omitted in order to deploy a PE Large Architecture.

Ensuring that the parameters above are omitted from the params.json file, the basic usage instructions can be used to run the peadm plan in order to install and configure the deployment.

Example nodes.yaml Bolt inventory file:

---
groups:
  - name: peadm_nodes
    config:
      transport: ssh
      ssh:
        host-key-check: false
        user: centos
        run-as: root
        tty: true
    nodes:
      - pe-xl-core-0.lab1.puppet.vm
      - pe-xl-compiler-0.lab1.puppet.vm
      - pe-xl-compiler-1.lab1.puppet.vm

Example params.json Bolt parameters file:

{
  "install": true,
  "configure": true,
  "upgrade": false,

  "master_host": "pe-xl-core-0.lab1.puppet.vm",
  "compiler_hosts": [
    "pe-xl-compiler-0.lab1.puppet.vm",
    "pe-xl-compiler-1.lab1.puppet.vm"
  ],

  "console_password": "puppetlabs",
  "dns_alt_names": [ "puppet", "puppet.lab1.puppet.vm" ],
  "compiler_pool_address": "puppet.lab1.puppet.vm",
  "version": "2018.1.4"
}