Instapants

Create a full Puppet Enterprise environment from vagrant base boxes.

Requirements

Vagrant 1.0
Virtualbox 4.x (4.0 strongly recommended for OSX 10.7)

Necessary Files

You'll need a config.yaml to specify how to build the environment. Contact your friendly neighborhood Puppet support monkey on where this is located. Place this file in the insta-pe directory.

You'll also need the extracted universtal installers for Puppet Enterprise. Place the extracted installers in insta-pe/files.

insta-pe assumes the you either have all your vagrant boxes already added or are hosted on a webserver.

Installation

git clone git://github.com/adrienthebo/insta-pe
cd insta-pe
wget http://your.web.server/insta-pe/config.yaml
vagrant up

Configuration

Configuration is provided through a yaml file. (Yes, the vagrant config file has a config file. Deal with it.) The top level values are all keys. You'll have something like this:

---
# Configuration settings for Puppet Enterprise.
pe:
  # The version of PE to install. Using a version of 0.0.0 disables the installation
  version: 2.5.1
  installer_path: /vagrant/files/puppet-enterprise-%s-all/puppet-enterprise-installer
  installer:
    # The program to execute to run the PE install. You can insert 'bash -x' to do a trace
    # of the installation. Any string containing :version will be replaced with the current version.
    executable: /vagrant/files/puppet-enterprise-:version-all/puppet-enterprise-installer
    args:
      # Additional arguments to pass to the installer
      - "-l /root/puppet-enterprise-installer.log"
      - "-D"
      - "| tee /root/installer-all.log"

# Profiles are generic configurations for a basebox
profiles:
  # One or more key/value pairs, where the name is the profile name and the values are hashes.
  debian:
    # The vagrant base box to use.
    boxname: debian-6.0.4-i386
    # The URL that the box can be downloaded from. This is optional
    boxurl: http://your.web.server/insta-pe/debian-6.0.4-i386.box
  # add more profiles as necessary

# Your actual node definitions. This is an array of hashes
nodes:
  # name: the name of the node to address with vagrant commands
  name: master
  # role: one of (master, agent). Self explanatory.
  role: master
  # The name of the profile to use in the previous section.
  profile: debian
  # The IP address to assign for the host
  address: 10.16.1.2
  # A hash where the keys are VM port names and the values are hypervisor port names. Optional.
  # You'll want to forward 443 on the master to your hypervisor for access to the PEC.
  forwards:
    443: 20443

You can also view the config.yaml.example in this directory.

Caveats