puppet "package" resource type for multi-file installer

[Ty Young]

I'm still ramping up on Puppet 5.4.0, but I'm stuck on something.

I have a customer needing to automate installation of a software package on Windows nodes. The installer is most easily transported as a .zip file, but (obviously) would need to be unzipped before running the enclosed .bat file to perform the installation. 

Any suggestions?  

Thanks

[Christopher Wood]

Sounds like this thing would be useful?

https://forge.puppet.com/puppet/archive

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[Thomas Müller]

Am Donnerstag, 19. April 2018 04:55:40 UTC+2 schrieb Ty Young:

I'm still ramping up on Puppet 5.4.0, but I'm stuck on something.

I have a customer needing to automate installation of a software package on Windows nodes. The installer is most easily transported as a .zip file, but (obviously) would need to be unzipped before running the enclosed .bat file to perform the installation. 

puppet-archive (https://forge.puppet.com/puppet/archive) could help you solve the transfering/un-zip-ing part.

If you are adventurous you might start to use chocolatey: https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki/CreatePackages  and https://forge.puppet.com/chocolatey/chocolatey - which really helps do streamline the installation part.

- Thomas

[Ty Young]

puppet/archive sounds cool, potentially.  Thanks for the recommendations, guys.    Just to be sure I've communicated clearly:

• my Puppet master (5.4) is RHEL7 and contains a Windows installer .zip file in /somedir
  
• one or more nodes onto which I want to push my installer .zip file are Windows servers
• after I push the .zip file up, I want Puppet to unzip it into a temp location (i.e. C:\temp\) then install it

I'm not 100% sure on the usage for puppet/archive in this use case.

Thanks

ty

[John Gelnaw]

refreshonly and notify are your friends.

file { 'zipfile':
  notify Exec['unzip'],
  source => 'file:///downloads/someZipFile.zip'
}

exec { 'unzip zipfile -d /some/file':
  alias => 'unzip',
  refreshonly => true,
  notify => Exec['installer']
}

exec { '/some/file/setup.exe /a':
  alias => 'installer',
  refreshonly => true
}

Nice thing about this setup is if you change the local zip file, it'll redownload, extract and run setup again, making a nice upgrade / reinstall process.