On Tue, 17 Jul 2018, at 02:40, Eric Sorenson wrote:
> Another effort that's underway but not yet complete is the extraction of
> non-core types/providers into modules. This addresses some long-standing
> requests to, for example, be able to change the nagios types and OS-
> specific resources without needing to get a full agent release out. The
> extracted types will be available in a modulepath structure in the
> puppet agent package, so (with a few targeted exceptions) there won't be
> any user-visible changes to what's available when you get the package,
> but an implication that hasn't really come up is around using Puppet in
> rubygem format. The extracted types are available on github and on the
> forge as separate modules, so if you currently use some of these
> extracted types, you'd need a way to get them installed locally.
>
> So my question is -
> - do you current use/rely on 'gem install puppet' for your workflows? If
> so, what do you do with it? (does anybody use a 'gem install puppet' as
> their production "puppet agent" daemon?)
we use it to get apply on machines - actually we package the gem into a rpm
with FPM but its the same outcome really. We need things in custom paths
and puppet-agent isn't relocatable so thats the path of least resistance.
Regardless we probably could not use puppet-agent even if relocatable as
different teams do different things
> - given the above, what would be the easiest/most intuitive way to get
> those extracted types into your puppet installation? some ideas we've
> kicked around are
> * a puppet type 'meta module' that, akin to a rpm/deb metapackage,
> doesn't have content, just dependencies on the actual modules at
> particular pinned versions that match the agent package versions
sounds good, I do similar with Choria
> * a Puppetfile that you could point r10k at to get the modules
> installed
handy
> * individual gems for each of the extracted modules with Gemfile
> dependencies (note: this is a Bad Idea™)
yes probably a bad idea
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