Deploying a zip from puppet master

[Daniel Schaefer]

I have a need to deploy and extract a zip file that is not publicly available and cannot be retrieve with curl, wget, or the like. I will be storing the zip file in modules/[my_module]/file/ and I will need to extract it to a puppet client in a specified directory. This is apparently new to me, since I don't have any examples to go off of.

My question is, is there a puppi class/define or another example42 module to do this or is this something that needs to be done outside of example42?

Thanks in advance and I'm sorry if this is trivial.

[Alessandro Franceschi]

If you store the zip in your module's files directory you can simply retrieve it on the clients with a normal file resource and the source argument accordingly set (note that generally is not recommended to use it to fetch big files, as, for example, Puppet needs to make a checksum both on client and master to verify if it has been changed) and then have an exec resource which has refreshonly => true , subscribes the above file resource and runs the extraction command.

In ex42 modules you can use puppi::netinstall to retrieve and unpack files, but, it can't be applied to your case, since the file can't be retrieved with a simple curl/wget.

 
Al

[Daniel Schaefer]

Thanks Al! I took your suggestion to use puppi::netinstall, because I wanted to use the resources after the retrieve anyway. What I did was I pushed the file to /var/tmp on the remote server using the file define. Then I ran puppi::netinstall, but using "test" as the $retrieve_command. So the retrieve command isn't really retrieving anything so much as just checking for the file. This worked like a charm! See the link for my full solution.

https://github.com/lieutdan13/puppet-lieutdan13/blob/master/manifests/wordpress/theme.pp