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+# How To Install Puppet
+
+This doc will guide you through the process of installing Puppet Agent using
+beaker's DSL helpers.
+
+Note that this is not a complete documentation of the process, but a general
+overview. There will be specific hiccups for particular platforms and special
+cases. These are not all included at this point. The idea is that as we come
+upon them, we will now have a place to document those details, so that we can
+over time bring this to 100% completeness.
+
+# First Things First: What Do You Want to Install?
+
+If you understand [beaker's roles](https://github.com/puppetlabs/beaker/blob/master/docs/concepts/roles_what_are_they.md)
+and just want the shortcuts to installing Open Source Puppet across your testing
+environment, then you should go to our "High Level Shortcuts" section below.
+
+If you'd like to only install Puppet Agents, please checkout our "Puppet Agent
+Installs" section for more information.
+
+# High Level Shortcuts
+
+The
+[`install_puppet_on`](http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/beaker/Beaker/DSL/InstallUtils/FOSSUtils#install_puppet_on-instance_method)
+method is a wrapper on our installing Puppet behavior that allows you to pass in
+which hosts in particular you'd like to install Puppet on as well as specifying
+the options used yourself. Please checkout the Rubydocs linked above for more
+info on this method.
+
+The
+[`install_puppet`](http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/beaker/Beaker/DSL/InstallUtils/FOSSUtils#install_puppet-instance_method)
+is deprecated. It's a shortcut method that just calls `install_puppet_on`
+passing the entire hosts array and global options hash. You can get the same
+using this code in your pre-suite:
+
+```ruby
+install_puppet_on(hosts, options)
+```
+
+Note that both of the high level methods will call the `install_puppet_agent_on`
+method to install released Puppet Agent versions for your agent Systems Under
+Test (SUTs). Please checkout our "Released Open Source Puppet Agents" section
+below for more information on this method.
+
+# Puppet Agent Installs
+
+There are a number of Puppet Agents that you could be installing. There aren't
+only an ever-growing number of versions, but you can get Puppet Agent from a
+number of locations.
+
+If you'd like to install the Puppet Agent that comes with your particular Puppet
+Enterprise (PE) install, then please skip to our "PE Promoted Agent Installs"
+section below.
+
+For our different Open Source variants, check out the sections just below, which
+differentiate between released & development Puppet Agent versions.
+
+### Released Open Source Puppet Agents
+
+To install a released version of Puppet Agent, beaker provides the
+[`install_puppet_agent_on`](http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/beaker/Beaker/DSL/InstallUtils/FOSSUtils#install_puppet_agent_on-instance_method)
+method. Please checkout the Rubydocs for more info on this method.
+
+### Development Open Source Puppet Agents
+
+To install a development build of Puppet Agent, beaker provides the
+[`install_puppet_agent_dev_repo_on`](http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/beaker/Beaker/DSL/InstallUtils/FOSSUtils#install_puppet_agent_dev_repo_on-instance_method)
+method. Please checkout the Rubydocs for more info on this method.
+
+### PE Promoted Agent Installs
+
+If you're using this method, then you're going to be downloading the installer
+from a URL configured like so:
+
+```ruby
+http://pm.puppetlabs.com/puppet-agent/#{ pe_version }/#{ puppet_agent_version }/repos
+```
+
+`pe_version` is a variable that you can provide using either the host or global
+property `:pe_ver`. This is usually done in the hosts file, and will default to
+`4.0.0-rc1` if nothing is specified.
+
+`puppet_agent_version` is a variable you can provide the value of through the
+same methods as `pe_version` above. It will default to `latest`.
+
+Beaker's DSL method to install from this location is
+[`install_puppet_agent_pe_promoted_repo_on`](http://www.rubydoc.info/github/puppetlabs/beaker/Beaker/DSL/InstallUtils/FOSSUtils#install_puppet_agent_pe_promoted_repo_on-instance_method).
+Follow the link to get API-level docs on this method for more info.
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