Installing Puppet on Ubuntu

Instructions are here

Download http://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-stable.deb and put it on your vbox
sudo dpkg -i puppetlabs-release-stable.deb
puppet help
puppet --version

One can install the "free learn puppet VM" : http://info.puppetlabs.com/download-learning-puppet-VM.html (Vbox or VM)



to dry run a puppet manifest:
puppet apply --noop default.pp

run facter to gather info on your system:
facter

to run a class in a manifest:

include pippo

class pippo {

}