puppet-nodejs

This module allows to install Node.js and NPM. This module is published on the Puppet Forge as willdurand/nodejs.

Installation

Manuall installation

This modules depends on puppetlabs/stdlib and maestrodev/puppet-wget. so all repositories have to be checked out:

git clone git://github.com/willdurand/puppet-nodejs.git modules/nodejs
git clone git://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib.git modules/stdlib
git clone git://github.com/maestrodev/puppet-wget.git modules/wget

Puppet Module Tool:

puppet module install willdurand/nodejs

Librarian-puppet

mod 'willdurand/nodejs', '1.6.0'

Usage

There are a few ways how to use this puppet module. The easiest one is just using the class definition

class { 'nodejs':
  version => 'v0.10.25',
}

This will compile and install Node.js version v0.10.25 to your machine. node and npm will be available in your $PATH via /usr/local/node/node-current/bin so you can just start using node.

Shortcuts are provided to easily install the latest or stable release by setting the version parameter to latest or stable. It will automatically look for the last release available on http://nodejs.org.

class { 'nodejs':
  version => 'stable',
}

Setup using pre-built installer

To use the pre-built installer version provided via http://nodejs.org/download you have to set make_install to false

class { 'nodejs':
  version      => 'stable',
  make_install => false,
}

Setup multiple versions of Node.js

If you need mode than one installed version of Node.js on your machine, you can just do it using the nodejs::install puppet define.

nodejs::install { 'v0.10.17':
  version => 'v0.10.17',
}
nodejs::install { 'v0.10.25':
  version => 'v0.10.25',
}

This snippet will install version v0.10.17 and v0.10.25 on your machine. Keep in mind that a Node.js version installed via nodejs::install will provide only versioned binaries inside /usr/local/bin!

/usr/local/bin/node-v0.10.17
/usr/local/bin/npm-v0.10.17

/usr/local/bin/node-v0.10.25
/usr/local/bin/npm-v0.10.25

By default, this module creates a symlink for the node binary (and npm) with Node.js version appended into /usr/local/bin e.g. /usr/local/bin/node-v0.10.17. All parameters available in the class definition are also available for nodejs::install.

Binary path

node and npm are linked to /usr/local/bin to be available in your system $PATH by default. To link those binaries to e.g /bin, just set the parameter target_dir.

class { 'nodejs':
  version    => 'stable',
  target_dir => '/bin',
}

NPM

Also, this module installs NPM by default. Since versions v0.6.3 of Node.js npm is included in every installation! For older versions, you can set parameter with_npm => false to not install npm.

NPM Provider

This module adds a new provider: npm. You can use it as usual:

package { 'express':
  provider => npm
}

Note: When deploying a new machine without nodejs already installed, your npm package definition requires the nodejs class:

class { 'nodejs':
  version => 'stable'
}

package { 'express':
  provider => 'npm',
  require  => Class['nodejs']
}

Running the tests

Install the dependencies using Bundler:

BUNDLE_GEMFILE=.gemfile bundle install

Run the following command:

BUNDLE_GEMFILE=.gemfile bundle exec rake test

Authors

William Durand william.durand1@gmail.com
Johannes Graf (@grafjo)

License

puppet-nodejs is released under the MIT License. See the bundled LICENSE file for details.

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