Update Windows Tomcat using Puppet

[Mike A.]

Hi,

I'm new in using Puppet but I was able to install the server and several clients

Almost all of our servers are running Windows 2008 with Tomcat 7 installed. I would like to know if it's possible to update the installed tomcat to version 8 using Puppet.

If someone can point me to a tutorial on how to do it, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!

[Mike A.]

If there's no way I can use Puppet to install/update Tomcat directly, should I use Chocolatey instead?

How reliable is Chocolatey in a production server?

Anyone have any experience?

[Rob Reynolds]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Mike A. <mike.b...@gmail.com> wrote:

If there's no way I can use Puppet to install/update Tomcat directly, should I use Chocolatey instead?

You can use Puppet to upgrade Tomcat directly. You've probably already come across puppetlabs-tomcat[1] and realized it isn't quite set up for Windows. You've probably also noticed that none of the tomcat modules on the forge advertise working with Windows[2]. It seems one could look at the steps required to update tomcat and create a module that will do so, or contribute back to puppetlabs-tomcat the Windows requirements.

[1] https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/tomcat

[2] https://forge.puppetlabs.com/tags/tomcat?utf-8=%E2%9C%93&os=windows

 

How reliable is Chocolatey in a production server?

Depending on your methodology, reliable. Provided you:

• Create your own packages that
  
• Vendor the installers somewhere in your network and
• You host your own internal chocolatey repository[3] 

The most important thing in here is production usage != community feed (https://chocolatey.org).

You can start with a copy of the package, then adjust the urls to your internal ones - see https://chocolatey.org/packages/Tomcat#files and take a look at the scripts. Download the zip files to a CIFS share or embed them in the package itself. Then adjust the links in the package itself.

The package itself has a download link on the left, you can download the nupkg and rename to .zip and treat it as a regular zipped file. Then when you are ready, just use choco pack to repack the files into a nupkg and push it up to your internal repository.

[3] https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki/How-To-Host-Feed 

 

Anyone have any experience?

On Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 8:47:26 PM UTC+8, Mike A. wrote:

Hi,

I'm new in using Puppet but I was able to install the server and several clients

Almost all of our servers are running Windows 2008 with Tomcat 7 installed. I would like to know if it's possible to update the installed tomcat to version 8 using Puppet.

If someone can point me to a tutorial on how to do it, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!

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