Jira (PDB-2669) Provide Official Docker PuppetDB

John Moser (JIRA)

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PDB-2669

Provide Official Docker PuppetDB

Issue Type:	New Feature
Assignee:	John Moser
Created:	2016/05/04 3:01 PM
Labels:	trivial puppetdb
Priority:	Normal
Reporter:	John Moser

Provide a PuppetDB docker container suitable for an official branch on docker hub. This adds onto PUP-6262 to provide a Puppetserver deployment with PuppetDB in one quick configuration.

Once provided, a user can create a Puppetserver with PuppetDB via such a docker-compose file:

```

docker-compose.yml for Puppet
e.g. /opt/containers/puppet/docker-compose.yml
puppetserver:
image: puppetserver:pc1
environment:
PUPPETSERVER_HOSTNAME: puppet.example.com
PUPPETSERVER_GENCONFIG: yes
ports:

"8140:8140"
volumes:
/opt/containers/puppet/data/ssl:/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl
/opt/containers/puppet/data/code:/etc/puppetlabs/code
links:
puppetdb
restart: always
puppetdb:
image: puppetdb:pc1
environment:
PUPPETSERVER_HOSTNAME: puppet.example.com
PUPPETSERVER_GENCONFIG: yes
PUPPETDB_SERVER: "db"
PUPPETDB_DATABASE: "puppetdb"
PUPPETDB_PASSWORD: "puppetdb"
expose:
8081
links:
db
restart: always
db:
image: postgres:9.5
environment:
POSTGRES_USER: "puppetdb"
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: "puppetdb"
expose:
5432
volumes:
/opt/containers/puppet/data/db:/var/lib/postgresql/data
restart: always
```

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John Moser (JIRA)

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John Moser commented on

PDB-2669

Re: Provide Official Docker PuppetDB

Currently scaffolded based on the

{puppetserver}

module. Visible in the feature/puppetdb branch:

https://github.com/bluefoxicy/docker-puppet/tree/feature/puppetdb/puppetdb

Doesn't actually run yet; I'm not a puppetdb user and am kind of blind on this one.

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Wyatt Alt (JIRA)

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May 4, 2016, 11:17:02 PM5/4/16

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Wyatt Alt commented on

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Re: Provide Official Docker PuppetDB

John Moser thanks for putting this together. If we go through with it I imagine a coordinated release (rather than an independent PDB effort) would be required across at least the products you've raised tickets against, and maybe more. The relevant people have been pinged between this ticket and the PUP one; we'll update you when the situation clarifies.

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John Moser (JIRA)

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May 5, 2016, 11:54:03 AM5/5/16

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John Moser commented on

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Re: Provide Official Docker PuppetDB

Both approaches make sense. I've focused mostly on the Puppetserver; PuppetDB is actually unfamiliar to me.

I do hope to extend these to Puppetserver-Enterprise, including puppetlabs's Puppet Enterprise ENC. This would allow Enterprise users to stand up any docker-compatible system (Alpine, CentOS, Ubuntu, etc.) and immediately deploy Puppetlabs Enterprise software products. As with PuppetDB, I'm not a user of Puppetlabs Enterprise products.

Running inside Docker isolates Puppet and MCollective agents from the system, and would result in Facter returning facts about the container instead of the host. Those products are excluded.

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Gareth Rushgrove (JIRA)

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May 13, 2016, 4:31:02 AM5/13/16

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Gareth Rushgrove commented on

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Re: Provide Official Docker PuppetDB

Hi John Moser. I'm Gareth, one of the engineers at Puppet. As it happens I've been working on official docker images for various bits of Puppet software recently. I'll look to get the repository I'm working on opened up in the next week or so and update here when I do. Certainly open to collaborating on that. My implementation is pretty similar to what you have, along with a bunch of build toolchain stuff and testing.

In the meantime, I'd love to understand your usecases. What made you consider running Puppet in Docker in the first place? What advantages do you see in doing so?

Thanks again. Hopefully you'll like what I have so far, it's still definitely work in progress.

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Neil Katin (JIRA)

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Neil Katin commented on

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Re: Provide Official Docker PuppetDB

I'll throw in my 2 cents for a use-case for puppetdb-in-docker.

I'm running puppet on fedora 24. There is no puppetdb packages for fedora; having puppetdb in docker would make it easy to run puppetdb without forcing a different OS on the host.