Vagrant-puppet-librarian
- this repository combines in a simple and effective way Librarian-Puppet + Puppet for Vagrant
Problem
I assume you know, what pain points Librarian-puppet solves, Librarian-puppet can help by managing the Puppet modules used by your Vagrant box. But you can not use puppet provisioner like intended, because modules are not all installed your first run (it's Librarian-Puppet's responsibility).
Solution
I have looked at similar solutions:
- https://github.com/aggressivex/vagrant-startup-environment
- https://github.com/purple52/librarian-puppet-vagrant
- https://github.com/garethr/riemann-vagrant
I did not quite like them, because they force me to install librarian-puppet on my system.
So I took the example from purple52 and changed it a bit (from two provisioners (shell + puppet) to just one) + some minor stuff.
The simple solution implemented here uses a shell provisioner in your Vagrant configuration to install and run Librarian-puppet and also run puppet.
Like this:
`puppet apply -vv --modulepath=$PUPPET_DIR/modules/ $PUPPET_DIR/manifests/main.pp`
It also installs two scripts for you:
runpuppetrunlibrarian
So, you don't have to vagrant reload, which restarts your VM.... (duh???) Just execute runpuppet, if you changed your code... If you updated the Puppetfile, execute runlibrarian. Simple.
How to use
This repository is really just a template; copy the relevant files into your own project. Here's a breakdown of what's required:
Vagrantfilewith simple shell provisioner definitionshell/bootstrap.sh- a simple shell provisioner to install and run Librarian-puppet and also Puppetpuppet/Puppetfile- configuration describing what Puppet modules to install. See the Librarian-puppet project for details.puppet/manifests/main.pp- your main Puppet manifest.puppet/.gitignore- configured to ignore temporary directories and files created by Librarian-puppet.
Contribute
Patches and suggestions welcome.
Issues
Please raise issues via the github issue tracker.
License
Please see the LICENSE file.