Puppet basic requirements notes

Basic requirements as of 14/11/2013

 

Ruby:

• Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.3 or 2.0.0 (from http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/platforms.html#ruby-versions )

Firewall ports:

• Puppet Master needs 8140 incoming open, agents connect to this port

Linux:

• RHEL 5 (requires drop-in Ruby version available from puppet labs)
• RHEL 6
• Debian 6 Squeeze
• Debian 7 Wheezy
• Debian Sid
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 13.04
• Fedora 17, 18, 19
• SuSE 11
• Others (see http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/platforms.html )

Unix:

• OS X 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9
• Solaris 10, 11
• AIX 5.3, 6.1, 7.1
• HP-UX

Windows:

• Server 2012
• Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2
• Server 2003 and Server 2003 R2
• 7 and 8
• Vista

Packages:

• Factor, Hiera, rgen
• base64
• cgi
• digest/md5
• etc
• fileutils
• ipaddr
• openssl (>= 0.9.8o if using a 3.x Puppet master or newer)
• strscan
• syslog
• uri
• webrick
• webrick/https
• xmlrpc