Voxpupuli Puppet Server container

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• Voxpupuli Puppet Server container
  • New version schema
  • Configuration
  • Initialization Scripts
  • Persistance
  • How to Release the container
  • How to contribute
  • Transfer notice

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⚠️ Attention ⚠️: the container name voxpupuli/container-puppetserver will be deprecated in 2025-02 and might be removed in the future. Please use voxpupuli/puppetserver instead.

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This project hosts the Dockerfile and the required scripts to build a Puppet Server container image.

You can run a copy of Puppet Server with the following Docker command:

docker run --name puppet --hostname puppet ghcr.io/voxpupuli/puppetserver:8.6.1-latest

Although it is not strictly necessary to name the container puppet, this is useful when working with the other Puppet images, as they will look for a server on that hostname by default.

If you would like to start the Puppet Server with your own Puppet code, you can mount your own directory at /etc/puppetlabs/code:

 docker run --name puppet --hostname puppet -v ./code:/etc/puppetlabs/code ghcr.io/voxpupuli/puppetserver:8.6.1-latest

For compose file see: CRAFTY

You can find out more about Puppet Server in the official documentation.

Note about environment caching

⚠️ The Puppetserver has the environment caching enabled by default. You should explicitly call the API endpoint to clear the cache when a new environment is deployed. See the curl example below.

curl -i --cert $(puppet config print hostcert) \
--key $(puppet config print hostprivkey) \
--cacert $(puppet config print cacert) \
-X DELETE \
https://$(puppet config print server):8140/puppet-admin-api/v1/environment-cache?environment=production

Another option is to disable the environment caching by setting the PUPPETSERVER_ENVIRONMENT_TIMEOUT environment variable to zero (0).

New version schema

The new version schema has the following layout:

<puppet.major>.<puppet.minor>.<puppet.patch>-v<container.major>.<container.minor>.<container.patch>

Example usage:

docker run --name puppet --hostname puppet -v ./code:/etc/puppetlabs/code/ ghcr.io/voxpupuli/puppetserver:8.6.1-v1.6.0

Name	Description
puppet.major	Describes the contained major Puppet version (7 or 8)
puppet.minor	Describes the contained minor Puppet version
puppet.patch	Describes the contained patchlevel Puppet version
container.major	Describes the major version of the base container (Ubunutu 22.04) or incompatible changes
container.minor	Describes new features or refactoring with backward compatibility
container.patch	Describes if minor changes or bugfixes have been implemented

Configuration

The following environment variables are supported:

Name	Usage / Default
PUPPETSERVER_HOSTNAME	The DNS name used on the servers SSL certificate - sets the server in puppet.conf Defaults to unset.
CERTNAME	The DNS name used on the servers SSL certificate - sets the certname in puppet.conf Defaults to unset.
DNS_ALT_NAMES	Additional DNS names to add to the servers SSL certificate Note only effective on initial run when certificates are generated
PUPPETSERVER_PORT	The port of the puppetserver 8140
AUTOSIGN	Whether or not to enable autosigning on the puppetserver instance. Valid values are true, false, and /path/to/autosign.conf. Defaults to true.
CA_ENABLED	Whether or not this puppetserver instance has a running CA (Certificate Authority) true
CA_HOSTNAME	The DNS hostname for the puppetserver running the CA. Does nothing unless CA_ENABLED=false puppet
CA_PORT	The listening port of the CA. Does nothing unless CA_ENABLED=false 8140
CA_ALLOW_SUBJECT_ALT_NAMES	Whether or not SSL certificates containing Subject Alternative Names should be signed by the CA. Does nothing unless CA_ENABLED=true. false
INTERMEDIATE_CA	Allows to import an existing intermediate CA. Needs INTERMEDIATE_CA_BUNDLE, INTERMEDIATE_CA_CHAIN and INTERMEDIATE_CA_KEY. See Puppet Intermediat CA
INTERMEDIATE_CA_BUNDLE	File path and name to the complete CA bundle (signing CA + Intermediate CA)
INTERMEDIATE_CRL_CHAIN	File path and name to the complete CA CRL chain
INTERMEDIATE_CA_KEY	File path and name to the private CA key
PUPPET_REPORTS	Sets reports in puppet.conf puppetdb
PUPPET_STORECONFIGS	Sets storeconfigs in puppet.conf true
PUPPET_STORECONFIGS_BACKEND	Sets storeconfigs_backend in puppet.conf puppetdb
PUPPETSERVER_MAX_ACTIVE_INSTANCES	The maximum number of JRuby instances allowed 1
PUPPETSERVER_MAX_REQUESTS_PER_INSTANCE	The maximum HTTP requests a JRuby instance will handle in its lifetime (disable instance flushing) 0
PUPPETSERVER_JAVA_ARGS	Arguments passed directly to the JVM when starting the service -Xms512m -Xmx512m
USE_PUPPETDB	Whether to connect to puppetdb Sets PUPPET_REPORTS to log and PUPPET_STORECONFIGS to false if those unset true
PUPPETDB_SERVER_URLS	The server_urls to set in /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/puppetdb.conf https://puppetdb:8081
PUPPETDB_HOSTNAME	The DNS name of the puppetdb Defaults to puppetdb
PUPPETDB_SSL_PORT	The TLS port of the puppetdb Defaults to 8081
PUPPETSERVER_GRAPHITE_EXPORTER_ENABLED	Activate the graphite exporter. Also needs PUPPETSERVER_GRAPHITE_HOST and PUPPETSERVER_GRAPHITE_PORT Defaults to false
PUPPETSERVER_GRAPHITE_HOST	Only used if PUPPETSERVER_GRAPHITE_EXPORTER_ENABLED is set to true. FQDN or Hostname of the graphite server where puppet should push metrics to. Defaults to exporter
PUPPETSERVER_GRAPHITE_PORT	Only used if PUPPETSERVER_GRAPHITE_EXPORTER_ENABLED is set to true. Port of the graphite server where puppet should push metrics to. Default to 9109
PUPPETSERVER_ENVIRONMENT_TIMEOUT	Configure the environment timeout Defaults to unlimited
PUPPETSERVER_ENABLE_ENV_CACHE_DEL_API	Enable the puppet admin api endpoint via certificates to allow clearing environment caches Defaults to true
ENVIRONMENTPATH	Set an environmentpath Defaults to /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments
HIERACONFIG	Set a hiera_config entry in puppet.conf file Defaults to $confdir/hiera.yaml
CSR_ATTRIBUTES	Provide a JSON string of the csr_attributes.yaml content. e.g. CSR_ATTRIBUTES='{"custom_attributes": { "challengePassword": "foobar" }, "extension_requests": { "pp_project": "foo" } }' Defaults to empty JSON object {} Please note that within a compose file, you must provide all environment variables as Hash and not as Array! environment: CSR_ATTRIBUTES: '{"extension_request": {...}}'

Initialization Scripts

If you would like to do additional initialization, add a directory called /docker-custom-entrypoint.d/ and fill it with .sh scripts. These scripts will be executed at the end of the entrypoint script, before the service is ran.

Persistance

If you plan to use the in-server CA, restarting the container can cause the server's keys and certificates to change, causing agents and the server to stop trusting each other. To prevent this, you can persist the default cadir, /etc/puppetlabs/puppetserver/ca. For example:

docker run -v $PWD/ca-ssl:/etc/puppetlabs/puppetserver/ca ghcr.io/voxpupuli/puppetserver:8.6.1-latest

or in compose:

services:
  puppet:
    image: ghcr.io/voxpupuli/puppetserver:8.6.1-latest
    # ...
    volumes:
      - ./ca-ssl:/etc/puppetlabs/puppetserver/ca

How to Release the container

see here

How to contribute

see here

Transfer Notice

This project was originally authored by Puppet. The maintainer preferred that Vox Pupuli take ownership of the project for future improvement and maintenance. Existing pull requests and issues were transferred over, please fork and continue to contribute here.