Building Windows Server with Puppet and Chocolatey

May 5, 2015 cloud configuration-management devops puppet windows-server 2015
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Forget using scripts and group policies to configure a new Windows Server machine. Using Chocolatey and Puppet, you can do it faster & easier than ever (and it’s more fun too). This is especially true if you’re using a Server Core installation and don’t have a GUI to help you along. Oh, and if you don’t know Puppet, you really should watch my course Puppet Fundamentals for System Administrators on Pluralsight 🙂

1$ New-NetIPAddress –InterfaceAlias "Ethernet" –IPAddress "192.168.51.29" –PrefixLength 24 -DefaultGateway 192.168.51.8
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3$ Set-DnsClientServerAddress -InterfaceAlias "Ethernet" -ServerAddresses 192.168.50.20, 192.168.50.21
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1$ set-executionpolicy unrestricted<br />
2$ iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
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1$ choco install vmware-tools
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The server will automatically restart.

1$ rename-computer -newname newservername
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1restart-computer
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Join to domain 
1add-computer -domain benpiper.com
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Reboot again 
1restart-computer
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Install Puppet 
1choco install puppet
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Configure Puppet 
1Configure c:\programdata\puppetlabs\puppet\etc\puppet.conf
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Generate puppet certificate 
1puppet_interactive
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Sign puppet certificate on puppet master 
1puppet cert sign newservername
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Apply appropriate profiles to server. Remember to restart the Puppet master if you change your Hiera configuration.

Run Puppet agent 

1puppet_interactive
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Verify 
1puppet resource dism
2puppet resource package
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