Puppet users - Apr 2007 - any ideas? automated installation of puppet into solaris 10 zone

> I''ve built a puppet solaris - package which is distributed via
jumpstart
> at installation time of a solaris 10 machine.
> It''s postinstallation registers the puppetd into smf and starts
puppetd
> afterwards. Puppetd connects to puppetmasterd, gets ist certificate signed
> (autosig on) and the configuration stuff.
> Now the interesting part: a new solaris zone is installed via puppet.
> Given a sysidcfg-template puppet brings the zone up to a running state.
> That''s really great!
> 
> But how to automate the installation of the puppet solaris - package into
> the new zone from the non-global zone?
> The package should be installed into the non-global zone and puppetd
> within this zone should configure the virtual machine.
> 
> Unfortunately, zonecfg and zoneadm don''t give the feature to add
packages
> during initialization of a zone. 
> 
> Could this be accoumplished by puppet?
> 
> I''ve tried the types zone and package. But the root-dir of pkgadd
(-R) has
> to be set to the root-dir of the nonglobal zone. There is  no such
> parameter for the type package.Furthermore, there should be a
> state-dependency between the non-global zone and the instance of
> ''package'': the package can only be installled when the
non-global zone is
> ''installled'' or ''running''
> 
> cheers, 
> frank
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On Apr 30, 2007, at 4:44 AM, Frank.Munsche@izb.de wrote:
> I''ve built a puppet solaris - package which is distributed via  
> jumpstart at installation time of a solaris 10 machine.
> It''s postinstallation registers the puppetd into smf and starts  
> puppetd afterwards. Puppetd connects to puppetmasterd, gets ist  
> certificate signed (autosig on) and the configuration stuff.
>
> Now the interesting part: a new solaris zone is installed via  
> puppet. Given a sysidcfg-template puppet brings the zone up to a  
> running state. That''s really great!
>
> But how to automate the installation of the puppet solaris -  
> package into the new zone from the non-global zone?
> The package should be installed into the non-global zone and  
> puppetd within this zone should configure the virtual machine.
>
> Unfortunately, zonecfg and zoneadm don''t give the feature to add  
> packages during initialization of a zone.
>
> Could this be accoumplished by puppet?
>
> I''ve tried the types zone and package. But the root-dir of pkgadd
(-
> R) has to be set to the root-dir of the nonglobal zone. There is   
> no such parameter for the type package.Furthermore, there should be  
> a state-dependency between the non-global zone and the instance of  
> ''package'': the package can only be installled when the
non-global
> zone is ''installled'' or ''running''
Hmm, I haven''t looked at the zones in a long time, but I always used  
shared package databases across my systems (by mount /opt/csw in all  
zones, I think), so I didn''t have this problem.

I expect you''ll have to do an exec to shell into the zone and install  
the package manually, probably using a ''refreshonly'' so it
only gets
done when the zone is first created.  As long as the package install  
starts the service, you should be golden.

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