Puppet users - Dec 2012 - Whats the best approach to create a repo of the installers to be used for installing and upgrading in the puppet managed nodes

Lets take the example, I am having a jboss-4.2.3 installers as a .tar file. 
In general to install jboss, i ll 
1. untar the jboss-4.2.3 into a prefefined folder (opt/server/jbossas/) 
into  multiple servers
2. untar the openjdk into a preferined path (/opt/software/java)set the 
path in the bash.profile
3. Create server profile in the place where jboss is installed
4. Start the server.

Lets say that I have to do this in 16 nodes (servers).
Now, I should store the jboss and openjdk installers at a central location 
and it should be transferred to the nodes before the 1st step can begin.

I wrote the manifest to perform the requirements form 1 to 4. But not sure 
how can I automate the transfer of the installers from a central repo. I am 
not worried about the type of central repo. It can be a ftp or puppet or 
anything else.

Please help me. I was going through filebucket. Will this help or should i 
write a manifest to get this file from a ftp server?

How to create a file repo which can be referred in puppet manifests?

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Hello,

why not making a rpm or deb package for the application and using the
resource ''package'' ?

Here is an example with JBoss :

http://kermit.fr/repo/rpm/el6/x86_64/jboss/
http://kermit.fr/repo/rpm/el6/SRPMS/
https://github.com/lofic/puppet-lofic/tree/master/modules/jboss7

Louis Coilliot

2012/12/20 Sivaraman Viswanathan
<siva.ah@googlemail.com>:
> Lets take the example, I am having a jboss-4.2.3 installers as a .tar file.
> In general to install jboss, i ll
> 1. untar the jboss-4.2.3 into a prefefined folder (opt/server/jbossas/)
into
> multiple servers
> 2. untar the openjdk into a preferined path (/opt/software/java)set the
path
> in the bash.profile
> 3. Create server profile in the place where jboss is installed
> 4. Start the server.
>
> Lets say that I have to do this in 16 nodes (servers).
> Now, I should store the jboss and openjdk installers at a central location
> and it should be transferred to the nodes before the 1st step can begin.
>
> I wrote the manifest to perform the requirements form 1 to 4. But not sure
> how can I automate the transfer of the installers from a central repo. I am
> not worried about the type of central repo. It can be a ftp or puppet or
> anything else.
>
> Please help me. I was going through filebucket. Will this help or should i
> write a manifest to get this file from a ftp server?
>
> How to create a file repo which can be referred in puppet manifests?
>
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Hi There,
This is the type of task that is best serviced using the packaging 
framework of your operating system (ie, RPM, Deb, etc).

In this case, I''d roll the software into RPMs and have them installed
via
the package {} type on all your nodes from a central YUM repo, followed by 
the deployment of the profile file from a central location using the file 
{} type.

You could then manage the service using the service type to ensure the 
applications are running as required.

The benefit of this is that it is very repeatable, as well as being able to 
use the packaging framework to assist with upgrade to other versions more 
seamlessly.

There are some good examples at: http://puppetcookbook.com/ you could use 
as a reference.

Cheers,

K



On Thursday, December 20, 2012 7:12:51 AM UTC, Sivaraman Viswanathan
wrote:
>
> Lets take the example, I am having a jboss-4.2.3 installers as a .tar 
> file. In general to install jboss, i ll 
> 1. untar the jboss-4.2.3 into a prefefined folder (opt/server/jbossas/) 
> into  multiple servers
> 2. untar the openjdk into a preferined path (/opt/software/java)set the 
> path in the bash.profile
> 3. Create server profile in the place where jboss is installed
> 4. Start the server.
>
> Lets say that I have to do this in 16 nodes (servers).
> Now, I should store the jboss and openjdk installers at a central location 
> and it should be transferred to the nodes before the 1st step can begin.
>
> I wrote the manifest to perform the requirements form 1 to 4. But not sure 
> how can I automate the transfer of the installers from a central repo. I am
> not worried about the type of central repo. It can be a ftp or puppet or 
> anything else.
>
> Please help me. I was going through filebucket. Will this help or should i 
> write a manifest to get this file from a ftp server?
>
> How to create a file repo which can be referred in puppet manifests?
>
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Louis Coilliot
<louis.coilliot@think.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> why not making a rpm or deb package for the application and using the
> resource ''package'' ?
In general I found fpm to be a reasonable compromise between
full fledged high-brow packaging efforts and lose tarballs:
    https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

Thanks,
Roman.

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