{"id":2424,"date":"2011-12-06T17:58:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T07:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2011-12-06T17:58:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T07:58:21","slug":"puppet-vagrant-jenkins-automated-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/06\/puppet-vagrant-jenkins-automated-bliss\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppet + Vagrant + jenkins = automated bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m currently teaching myself how to do Puppet. Why? Well, at Percona<\/a> we support a bunch of platforms for our software. This means we have to maintain a bunch of Jenkins<\/a> slaves to build the software on. We want to add new machines and have (up until now) maintained a magic “apt-get install” command line in the Jenkins EC2 configuration. This isn’t an ideal situation and there’s been talk of getting Puppet<\/a> to do the heavy lifting for a while.<\/p>\n

So I sat down to do it.<\/p>\n

Step 1: take the “apt-get install” line and convert it into puppet speak.<\/p>\n

This was pretty easy. I started off with Vagrant starting a Ubuntu Lucid 32 VM (just like in the Vagrant getting started guide) and enabled the provision using puppet bit.<\/p>\n

Step 2: find out you need to run “apt-get update”<\/p>\n

Since the base VM I’m using was made there had been updates, so I needed to make any package installation depend on running “apt-get update” to ensure I was both installing the latest version and that the repositories would have the files I was looking for.<\/p>\n

This was pretty easy (once I knew how):<\/p>\n

exec {\"apt-update\":\r\n       command => \"\/usr\/bin\/apt-get update\",\r\n}<\/pre>\n
Exec[\"apt-update\"] -> Package <| |><\/pre>\n
This simply does two things: specify to run “apt-get update” and then specify that any package install depends on having run “apt-update” first.<\/p>\n
I’ve also needed things such as:<\/p>\n
case $operatingsystem {\r\n     debian, ubuntu: { $libaiodev = \"libaio-dev\" }\r\n     centos, redhat: { $libaiodev = \"aio-devel\" }\r\n     default: { fail(\"Unrecognised OS for libaio-dev\") }\r\n}\r\npackage { \"libaio-dev\":\r\n          name => $libaiodev,\r\n          ensure => latest,\r\n}<\/pre>\n
The idea being that when I go and test all this stuff running on CentOS, it should mostly “just work” there too.<\/p>\n
The next step? Setting up and running the Jenkins slave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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