I want to install a module into the modulepath. I can provide either a
http url to a tar that contains the modules (like puppetforge but the path
is not as structured) or I could provide a git url and path under that url
where the module is.
I want to first run puppet standalone on the vagrant vm host. This should
download the appropriate modules and make them available on the filesystem
in the modulepath. Then I''ll stand up a vm and have puppet run
standalone
on the vm using the modules to setup the vm.
I was looking at two different solutions.
1) using some sort of archive module to download and extract the module
(like: http://forge.puppetlabs.com/mthibaut/archive). The problem being
puppet requires all paths to be absolute. I would like to be able to hack
apart the modulepath configuration in the manifest file. But I have no
idea how to do that. I was trying something like:
archive {"$filename":
ensure => present,
url => "$url",
checksum => false,
extension => "tar.gz",
target => split("$::modulepath", ":")[0] +
"/modules/",
}
But obviously I am a bit out of my league getting that to work.
2) Using the puppet module
provider(https://github.com/rcoleman/puppet_module_provider) to download
and install a module. This works great... if the module is on puppet
forge. But I need to keep the connections local, for connectivity outages
and backups in case third party modules disappear from their place on the
internet. Also internal modules are not going to make it out to the
forge. I see in the code something about a source. But it seems that
would point to some root folder on the web server and expect a certain
structure underneath that folder. I am not sure what the folder is and I
am even less sure that I could produce it in house.
Have people solved this problem? What has been their approach?
Mike Power
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