Installing PuppetDB on Debian 8 with Puppet 3.7

[John Naggets]

Hello,

I am using Debian 8 with the puppetmaster package from the official Debian 8 repository. Now as Debian does not provide a puppetdb package I wanted to know from which source I should install PuppetDB? and also which version of PuppetDB to install? Will PuppetDB version 4.1 work with Puppet 3.7?

Cheers,
John

[Nick Miller]

John,

Puppet provides a repo for Debian Jessie. You can install it with the rpm found here: https://apt.puppetlabs.com/

Best,

Nick

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[John Naggets]

Thanks Nick for the pointer, I have now installed the puppetlabs-release-pc1-jessie.deb package from apt.puppetlabs.com and I am trying to install PuppetDB with the following command:

sudo puppet resource package puppetdb ensure=latest

Unfortunately I get the following a dependency error message which I have copied below. I suppose I have to install a specific version of PuppetDB in order to work with Debian's version 3.7 of Puppet, but which one?

Regards
J.


Error: Could not update: Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install puppetdb' returned 100: Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 puppetdb : Depends: puppet (>= 3.8.1-1puppetlabs1) or
                     puppet-agent but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: puppet (< 5.0.0-1puppetlabs1) or
                     puppet-agent but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[Wyatt Alt]

John,

You'll want a PuppetDB version in the 2.x series -- 3+ requires Puppet 4.

On the offchance that you're just getting started, note that you can install the latest puppetserver and puppet-agent packages from the same PC1 repo, and that the latest PuppetDB will work with those.

Wyatt

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[John Naggets]

Hi Wyatt,

Any ideas where I can find PuppetDB v2.x? In the APT repository of PuppetLabs the oldest I can find is version 3.2.

Regards
J.

[Wyatt Alt]

On 06/29/2016 10:30 PM, John Naggets wrote:
> Hi Wyatt,
>
> Any ideas where I can find PuppetDB v2.x? In the APT repository of
> PuppetLabs the oldest I can find is version 3.2.

Those are in the non-PC1 repos at apt.puppetlabs.com, but is no 2.3.x
package for Jessie there. The wheezy ones appear to work on jessie but I
haven't tested it thoroughly.

Wyatt

[Melissa Stone]

I wouldn't recommend running Wheezy packages on Jessie.  SystemD was introduced in Debian 8, and I believe last I heard there were some issues with running sysv services in the systemd environment. The Wheezy PDB packages are configured to run services as sysv. That being said, I have heard it does work for some people. Just know it's not recommended.

Wyatt

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[John Naggets]

Hi Melissa,

So do I understand you correctly here: there is no way that I can run PuppetDB on a Debian 8 server using the official Debian Puppet version 3.7 package?

Regards
John

[Melissa Stone]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 1:56 PM John Naggets <hosting...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Melissa,

So do I understand you correctly here: there is no way that I can run PuppetDB on a Debian 8 server using the official Debian Puppet version 3.7 package?

You can run it with the wheezy package like Wyatt suggests, it should still work. It's just not the best way to run puppet on jessie. And you'll be running old code that probably has bugs and/or security issues. If you can switch over to puppetserver, puppet-agent, and puppetdb from the official puppetlabs repo, I'd strongly suggest that. You'll be able to access the latest packages for all three packages whenever we make new releases available.

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[John Naggets]

This means I would have to redo my whole current version 3 puppet master node in oder to be sure it works with version 4 and on top of that I would have to upgrade all nodes with your own package of puppet 4. This is a clear no go for me. I want to use the official packages of Debian and I can't understand why you have such a package for all other distributions but not for Debian 8. I am really disappointed and would like to know why you do not simply create a package which is compatible with Debian 8?

J.

[Melissa Stone]

On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 12:23 PM John Naggets <hosting...@gmail.com> wrote:

This means I would have to redo my whole current version 3 puppet master node in oder to be sure it works with version 4 and on top of that I would have to upgrade all nodes with your own package of puppet 4. This is a clear no go for me. I want to use the official packages of Debian and I can't understand why you have such a package for all other distributions but not for Debian 8. I am really disappointed and would like to know why you do not simply create a package which is compatible with Debian 8?

We only provide packages for new platforms for the current series. Debian 8 was released after we began providing packages for the PuppetDB 3 series. That means we are only going to provide packages for PuppetDB 3.x and later on Debian 8.

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