Lab – Puppet Enterprise extensions and configuration

Executing the bolt command in the technical requirements section deploys a large deployment of Puppet Enterprise 2021.5. With this infrstructure setup, we will try various extensions and configurations we have discussed, as follows:

1. Examine the code in peadm and the node groups that set up the A and B groups. Note https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-peadm/blob/main/documentation/classification.md provides an explanation of the groups.
2. Create a personal user with permission to view the console and create node groups and view the activity log of the administrator user (try to log in without the view console permissions).
3. Enable package management on the web console for all nodes, log in as your personal user, and view the activity log of this.
4. Enable patch management for the nodes by applying code using the node_manager module.
5. Customize the login message.
6. Perform an upgrade to 2021.6 using the...