On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 1:10 AM, David Starina <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > me again. I haven't set up Puppet before, can you just point me in the right > direction? > I know this is not a Puppet mailing list, but I bet you have some tips for me > :-) > > So what do I need to do? Install Puppet on every node?
Yes. > What does it mean that the mode of Puppet is "masterless" See here: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/4.3/reference/architecture.html#the-stand-alone-architecture > - do I just have to do a basic installation of Puppet and not care much about > setting it up, and then deploy bigtop on every node separately? Correct. You do not have to setup puppet much to be able to do puppet apply > And when setting the Hadoop head node - does that mean that I need to deploy > Bigtop on this node first, and Bigtop will know this is the master node by > the url > or IP I provide to it? It will know because of the information supplied in hieradata/site.yaml among other things. You really need to read up on Hiera to get the full picture: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/hiera/3.0/ Thanks, Roman.
