Chapter 2. Managing Puppet modules

Procedure

1. Navigate to forge.puppet.com and search for ntp. One of the first modules is puppetlabs/ntp.

2. Connect to your Satellite Server using SSH and install the Puppet module:

   # puppet module install puppetlabs-ntp -i /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules

   Use the -i parameter to specify the path and Puppet environment, for example production.

   Once the installation is completed, the output looks as follows:

   Notice: Preparing to install into /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules ...
   Notice: Created target directory /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules
   Notice: Downloading from https://forgeapi.puppet.com ...
   Notice: Installing -- do not interrupt ...
   /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules
   |-| puppetlabs-ntp (v8.3.0)
     |-- puppetlabs-stdlib (v4.25.1) [/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules]

Procedure

1. Connect to your Puppet server using SSH and find out where the Puppet modules are located:

   # puppet config print modulepath

   This returns output as follows:

   /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules:/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/common:/etc/puppetlabs/code/modules:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/modules:/usr/share/puppet/modules

2. If the module is located in the path as displayed above, the following command updates a module:

   # puppet module upgrade module name