Puppet users - Jun 2009 - Installing applications using puppet

Hi all,

I am pretty new to Puppet. My puppet master server is a RHEL 5 box and
puppet client is a CentOS 5.3 vm. I have managed to configure puppet
server to successfully install.and upgrade rpm based packages on the
client machine. Is it possible to install noon-rpm based packages
using puppet? Like packages comes as tar.gz such as web based
applications?

If it is possible, please provide any example manifests or any good
documents that I can follow.

Thanks,
Neil

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Neil K wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am pretty new to Puppet. My puppet master server is a RHEL 5 box and
> puppet client is a CentOS 5.3 vm. I have managed to configure puppet
> server to successfully install.and upgrade rpm based packages on the
> client machine. Is it possible to install noon-rpm based packages
> using puppet? Like packages comes as tar.gz such as web based
> applications?
>
> If it is possible, please provide any example manifests or any good
> documents that I can follow.
>
> Thanks,
> Neil
>
> >
>   
Hi Neil, you want to check out the ''define'' keyword in the
puppet
language doc. This way you can have a definition like "my_pkg" pass it
some options, and all the magic to set it up can be done inside the 
define. I don''t currently have an example because I package most of my 
stuff in .debs and put it in a custom repo.

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On Jun 25, 2009, at 10:42 PM, Neil K wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am pretty new to Puppet. My puppet master server is a RHEL 5 box and
> puppet client is a CentOS 5.3 vm. I have managed to configure puppet
> server to successfully install.and upgrade rpm based packages on the
> client machine. Is it possible to install noon-rpm based packages
> using puppet? Like packages comes as tar.gz such as web based
> applications?
>
>
It is possible to do anything with puppet through the exec type.  
However if  you are expecting a lot of these cases I recommend  
building the packages and use your distributions package manager  
instead. This is much cleaner and a more maintainable way of doing it.

Regards



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Thank you for your replies. As I said I am pretty new to this puppet
language. Could any one please point how to do a sample package
install which includes a ./configure, make, make install inside a
package directory?

Thanks again for our helps.

Regards,
Neil
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Hi,

I am new to puppet as well, but I could tell you how to do a similar
install.

exec { "getthesource":
      command => "wget http://thesourceurl",
      cwd => "/the/directory/to/issue/this/command/from"
}

exec { "untarthesource":
       command => "the_untar_command",
       cwd => "the/directory/to/issue/this/command/from",
       require => Exec["getthesource"]
 }

exec { "./configure":
      command =>
"the/directory/to/issue/this/command/from/configure",
      cwd => "as above",
      require => Exec["untarthesource"]
}

And the other steps follow in a similar manner.. You should probably check
the exec resource type in the type reference.
.............

But, I think this is not the most elegant way of doing it... There is the
package resource type in puppet which can be used to install packages from
binaries, but yes, I haven''t found another way to install from source.

2009/6/25 Neil K <satech1@gmail.com>
>
> Thank you for your replies. As I said I am pretty new to this puppet
> language. Could any one please point how to do a sample package
> install which includes a ./configure, make, make install inside a
> package directory?
>
> Thanks again for our helps.
>
> Regards,
> Neil
> >
>

-- 
Regards,
Swati

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Thanks a bunch, Swati. Your notes were extremely useful. I will check
on the exec type and will collect more info.
Once again thanks for everyone who tried to help.

Regards,
Neil
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Neil K wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am pretty new to Puppet. My puppet master server is a RHEL 5 box and
> puppet client is a CentOS 5.3 vm. I have managed to configure puppet
> server to successfully install.and upgrade rpm based packages on the
> client machine. Is it possible to install noon-rpm based packages
> using puppet? Like packages comes as tar.gz such as web based
> applications?
> 
> If it is possible, please provide any example manifests or any good
> documents that I can follow.
> 
Yes.. it is possible. Depending on the scripts that are required to 
install the package, there are some hacks you may need to do. There are 
some examples of scripts here:

http://www.thincrust.org/help.html

They are tailored for running puppet stand alone to build appliances.. 
so YMMV... but it proves it can be done :)

-- bk

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Bjørn Dyresen wrote:
> On Jun 25, 2009, at 10:42 PM, Neil K wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am pretty new to Puppet. My puppet master server is a RHEL 5 box and
>> puppet client is a CentOS 5.3 vm. I have managed to configure puppet
>> server to successfully install.and upgrade rpm based packages on the
>> client machine. Is it possible to install noon-rpm based packages
>> using puppet? Like packages comes as tar.gz such as web based
>> applications?
>>
>>
> 
> It is possible to do anything with puppet through the exec type.  
> However if  you are expecting a lot of these cases I recommend  
> building the packages and use your distributions package manager  
> instead. This is much cleaner and a more maintainable way of doing it.
> 
I had to hack a single_exec type.. it drops a touch file after it runs a 
script. It is nasty, but if the script is not idempotent.. it works.

-- bk

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On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Neil K<satech1@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Thank you for your replies. As I said I am pretty new to this puppet
> language. Could any one please point how to do a sample package
> install which includes a ./configure, make, make install inside a
> package directory?
>
> Thanks again for our helps.
>
Wrong place to do this, you do not use puppet to create a package. you
sue puppet to install the package. The distribution you are using will
dictate how to create packages. The ./configure, make, make install
plus anything else needed for your particular package format would be
done by you to create the application package.  The package would then
be setup in a local repository and now puppet uses the appropraite
package manager to install you custom package.

what distribution are you using?

Evan

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On Jun 26, 2009, at 4:06 AM, Bryan Kearney wrote:
>
> Bjørn Dyresen wrote:
>> On Jun 25, 2009, at 10:42 PM, Neil K wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am pretty new to Puppet. My puppet master server is a RHEL 5 box
>>> and
>>> puppet client is a CentOS 5.3 vm. I have managed to configure
puppet
>>> server to successfully install.and upgrade rpm based packages on
the
>>> client machine. Is it possible to install noon-rpm based packages
>>> using puppet? Like packages comes as tar.gz such as web based
>>> applications?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It is possible to do anything with puppet through the exec type.
>> However if  you are expecting a lot of these cases I recommend
>> building the packages and use your distributions package manager
>> instead. This is much cleaner and a more maintainable way of doing  
>> it.
>>
>
> I had to hack a single_exec type.. it drops a touch file after it  
> runs a
> script. It is nasty, but if the script is not idempotent.. it works.
>

Yes, Im also doing this. I still think if you are expecting a lot of  
these scenarios, you will be way better off with building the packages  
and use the package manager. 
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> Wrong place to do this, you do not use puppet to create a package. you
> sue puppet to install the package. The distribution you are using will
> dictate how to create packages. The ./configure, make, make install
> plus anything else needed for your particular package format would be
> done by you to create the application package.  The package would then
> be setup in a local repository and now puppet uses the appropraite
> package manager to install you custom package.
>
> what distribution are you using?
>
> Evan

My puppet master server is RHEL 5 and puppet client is CentOS 5.3. I
am not sure what you exactly mean by "create the application package".
If you could explain that, that would be helpful.

Regards,
Neil
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>> done by you to create the application package.  The package would then
>> be setup in a local repository and now puppet uses the appropraite
>> package manager to install you custom package.
>>
>> what distribution are you using?
>>
>> Evan
>
>
> My puppet master server is RHEL 5 and puppet client is CentOS 5.3. I
> am not sure what you exactly mean by "create the application
package".
> If you could explain that, that would be helpful.
>
In this case, creating an application package means make an RPM.
Redhat , Fedora and Centos website all have documentation on doing
this. I suggest you start there for learning the basics of  RPM
package creation.

Evan

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Once I did this class for mailscanner installation, can be an example.

class mailscanner {
	$mailscannerver="MailScanner-4.69.9-2"
	$mailscannerfile="$mailscannerver.rpm.tar.gz"

        exec {
                "mailscanner_prerequisites":
                        command => $operatingsystem ? {
                        	default => "yum install -y wget tar gzip rpm-
build binutils glibc-devel gcc make",
                        },
                        onlyif => "test ! -f /usr/src/
$mailscannerfile",
        }

        exec {
                "mailscanner_download":
                        command => "cd /usr/src ; wget
http://www.mailscanner.info/files/4/rpm/$mailscannerfile",
                        onlyif => "test ! -f /usr/src/
$mailscannerfile",
                        require =>
Exec["mailscanner_prerequisites"],
        }

        exec {
                "mailscanner_extract":
                        command => "cd /usr/src ; tar -zxvf
$mailscannerfile",
                        require => Exec["mailscanner_download"],
                        onlyif => "test ! -d /usr/src/
$mailscannerver",
        }

        exec {
                "mailscanner_install":
                        command => "cd /usr/src/$mailscannerver ; ./
install.sh",
                        require => [
				Exec["mailscanner_extract"],
				Package["spamassassin"],
				Package["clamav"]
				],
                        unless => "rpm -qi mailscanner",
        }

        service { mailscanner:
                name => "MailScanner",
                ensure => running,
                enable => true,
                hasrestart => true,
                hasstatus => true,
		require => Exec["mailscanner_install"],
        }

}




On Jun 25, 10:42 pm, Neil K <sate...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am pretty new to Puppet. My puppet master server is a RHEL 5 box and
> puppet client is a CentOS 5.3 vm. I have managed to configure puppet
> server to successfully install.and upgrade rpm based packages on the
> client machine. Is it possible to install noon-rpm based packages
> using puppet? Like packages comes as tar.gz such as web based
> applications?
>
> If it is possible, please provide any example manifests or any good
> documents that I can follow.
>
> Thanks,
> Neil
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