Working with PuppetLabs Using Vagrant

While working as DevOps Engineer one of the tools by definition that we use more, often is Puppet. Guess most people will think that you are 100% expert, which is not always the case. So, I need to create this post and track record of my own experiments with Puppet and (PuppetLabs + Vagrant)

You might as what is Vagrant ?
==> "Vagrant is an open-source software product for building and maintaining portable virtual software development environments, e.g. for VirtualBox, Hyper-V, Docker, VMware, and AWS. ... Vagrant simplifies the necessary software configuration management in order to increase development productivity. " read more here: https://www.vagrantup.com/intro/index.html

The initial indentation was to gain better understanding puppet file structure. So, I decided to use Puppetlabs for this ...

So, basically. I did create installed

• Installed Vagrant
• Used the Vagrant init command to pull the puppetlabs ubuntu VM
• Which created a file "Vagrantfile"
• created a dir puppetlabs

And then started the Setup, so here are the Logs ..

Tdls-Air:puppetlabs psalms91$ vagrant up
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> default: Box 'puppetlabs/ubuntu-16.04-32-puppet' could not be found. Attempting to find and install...
    default: Box Provider: virtualbox
    default: Box Version: 1.0.0
==> default: Loading metadata for box 'puppetlabs/ubuntu-16.04-32-puppet'
    default: URL: https://vagrantcloud.com/puppetlabs/ubuntu-16.04-32-puppet
==> default: Adding box 'puppetlabs/ubuntu-16.04-32-puppet' (v1.0.0) for provider: virtualbox
    default: Downloading: https://vagrantcloud.com/puppetlabs/boxes/ubuntu-16.04-32-puppet/versions/1.0.0/providers/virtualbox.box
==> default: Successfully added box 'puppetlabs/ubuntu-16.04-32-puppet' (v1.0.0) for 'virtualbox'!
==> default: Importing base box 'puppetlabs/ubuntu-16.04-32-puppet'...
==> default: Matching MAC address for NAT networking...
==> default: Checking if box 'puppetlabs/ubuntu-16.04-32-puppet' is up to date...
==> default: Setting the name of the VM: puppetlabs_default_1506687306250_65705
==> default: Clearing any previously set network interfaces...
==> default: Preparing network interfaces based on configuration...
    default: Adapter 1: nat
==> default: Forwarding ports...
    default: 22 (guest) => 2222 (host) (adapter 1)
==> default: Booting VM...
==> default: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes...
    default: SSH address: 127.0.0.1:2222
    default: SSH username: vagrant
    default: SSH auth method: private key
    default:
    default: Vagrant insecure key detected. Vagrant will automatically replace
    default: this with a newly generated keypair for better security.
    default:
    default: Inserting generated public key within guest...
    default: Removing insecure key from the guest if it's present...
    default: Key inserted! Disconnecting and reconnecting using new SSH key...
==> default: Machine booted and ready!
==> default: Checking for guest additions in VM...
    default: The guest additions on this VM do not match the installed version of
    default: VirtualBox! In most cases this is fine, but in rare cases it can
    default: prevent things such as shared folders from working properly. If you see
    default: shared folder errors, please make sure the guest additions within the
    default: virtual machine match the version of VirtualBox you have installed on
    default: your host and reload your VM.
    default:
    default: Guest Additions Version: 5.0.20
    default: VirtualBox Version: 5.1
==> default: Mounting shared folders...
    default: /vagrant => /Users/psalms91/Vagrant_VM/puppetlabs
Tdls-Air:puppetlabs psalms91$

Tdls-Air:puppetlabs psalms91$ vagrant ssh
Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-21-generic i686)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
vagrant@localhost:~$

After this I have my Puppet Labs VM running ... After this point was easy, I just needed to goo into the puppet installation dir and look into the dir structure.

done.. :-)

How To Install qBittorrent 3.3.7 On Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.10 And Ubuntu 14.04 Systems

The - qBittorrent is a torrent client, similar to µTorrent, which was recently ported to the Linux systems. Among others, qBittorrent has built-in search engine for searching in the popular BitTorrent sites, has torrent queueing and prioritizing features, has IP Filtering options, provides a tool for creating torrents and bandwidth limitations.

The latest version available is qBittorrent 3.3.7, which has been released, bringing a few changes only:

• FEATURE: Delete torrent+files with Shift+Delete
• BUGFIX: Fix 6-hour speedplot point push rate
• BUGFIX: Avoid spawning a new explorer.exe process when selecting “Open containing folder”
• BUGFIX: Fix loading of new geoip db due to an artificial size limit
• BUGFIX: Better error handling and logging with smtp communication
• SEARCH: Remove KickassTorrents search engine
• SEARCH: Remove BTDigg search engine
• SEARCH: Update Torrentz search engine

For more information, see the full changelog.

Installation instructions:

There isn’t any official qBittorrent PPA or repository, but the community maintains one, so that the users can keep their qBittorrent up to date easily.

The below instructions should work on all the supported Ubuntu systems and derivatives: Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa, Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install qbittorrent

If you want to remove qbittorrent, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove qbittorrent