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Eric Francis
Eric Francis

Reputation: 24287

Does vagrant automatically install puppet?

I have this in my Vagrantfile:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
    config.vm.provision "puppet"
  end

Yet, when I run puppet --version I get :

[vagrant@vagrant-centos65 ~]$ puppet --version
-bash: puppet: command not found

Do I need to manually install puppet?

Upvotes: 16

Views: 10786

Answers (9)

Brian Vanderbusch
Brian Vanderbusch

Reputation: 3339

Yes. I'm not sure what the state of Vagrant was at the time of some of these other answers, but these days puppet does not have to be installed via a shell provisioner, as Vagrant has a support puppet provisioner built right in.

At the most basic level, you can make sure puppet is supported on your box by adding provision "puppet" or provision "puppet_server" to your `Vagrantfile. For example:

#open config block (already present in your templated Vagrantfile)
Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|

  #...[snip]... other config.vm settings. Ex...
  # Ubuntu 14.04 LTS version
  #config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"

  # Make puppet avail inside machine
  config.vm.provision "puppet"


#close out Vagrant configuration for this instance
end

using puppet sets up puppet for local puppet apply (uses local manifests for configuring your machine), whereas using puppet_server hooks you up to a puppet master, and allows you to provision your vagrant box using a puppet server (a puppet master agent).

Upvotes: 4

conceptdeluxe
conceptdeluxe

Reputation: 3893

As stated by others it depends on the box. For instance ubuntu/trusty64 comes with puppet pre-installed whereas ubuntu/xenial64 does not.

So to fix this for Ubuntu ubuntu/xenial64 adding an inline shell provisioner before the puppet provisioner is enough:

config.vm.box = "ubuntu/xenial64"

config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => 'apt-get -y update; apt-get -y install puppet'

config.vm.provision :puppet do |puppet|
# ...

Upvotes: 2

serup
serup

Reputation: 3822

this worked for me:

put this inside your Vagrantfile - before your provisioning

$script = <<SCRIPT
echo I am installing puppet on guest 
sudo apt-get install -yq puppet=*
SCRIPT

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.provision "shell", inline: $script
end

This should install a puppet agent on the guest before you do other provisioning

Upvotes: 0

Jesse Sanford
Jesse Sanford

Reputation: 607

As of June 16 2016 Vagrant does NOT install puppet within the client VM as far as I can tell. I believe like it's sister project "packer" it expects you to do so explicitly. See: https://www.packer.io/docs/provisioners/puppet-masterless.html

Note: Puppet will not be installed automatically by this provisioner. This provisioner expects that Puppet is already installed on the machine. It is common practice to use the shell provisioner before the Puppet provisioner to do this.

Upvotes: 0

Danoz
Danoz

Reputation: 1087

As a few other people have already answered, there is no 'standard' that ensures a vagrant box comes pre-installed with Puppet.

By design, a vagrant box could have 'anything' pre-installed on it. Or it could just as easily have 'nothing' at all pre-installed. It all depends on who created it and what they included in the process of setting up the box.

If you find that your machine doesn't have Puppet pre-installed on it, you could also use one of the scripts that Mitchell Hashimoto has put together. See the following project on GitHub for details...

https://github.com/hashicorp/puppet-bootstrap

Upvotes: 4

Tushar Goswami
Tushar Goswami

Reputation: 783

At this point of time of writing, Vagrant does pre-installs puppet service. I ssh-ed into guest machine (used the box 'ubuntu/trusty64') and got following result :

vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:~$ puppet --version
3.4.3

Upvotes: 2

Peter Souter
Peter Souter

Reputation: 5200

If you want to use a plugin, I made one that will automatically install Puppet from a version given in the Vagrantfile:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|

  config.puppet_install.puppet_version = :latest

end

This will also do a few cool tricks like make sure the puppet version you specify is a valid version and the like, full details here: https://github.com/petems/vagrant-puppet-install/

Upvotes: 6

Eric Francis
Eric Francis

Reputation: 24287

In response to @tmatilai, I created this simple set up:

Vagrantfile:

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "centos6.5_64"
  config.vm.provision "shell", path: "manifests/puppet.sh"
  config.vm.provision "puppet"
end

manifest/puppet.sh:

echo "Adding puppet repo"
sudo rpm -ivh https://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6/products/x86_64/puppetlabs-release-6-7.noarch.rpm
echo "installing puppet"
sudo yum install puppet -y
echo "ensure puppet service is running"
sudo puppet resource service puppet ensure=running enable=true
#echo "ensure puppet service is running"
#sudo puppet resource service puppetmaster ensure=running enable=true

echo "ensure puppet service is running for standalone install"
sudo puppet resource cron puppet-apply ensure=present user=root minute=30 command='/usr/bin/puppet apply $(puppet apply --configprint manifest)'

[vagrant@vagrant-centos65 home]$ puppet --version
3.4.2

Upvotes: 7

tmatilai
tmatilai

Reputation: 4176

No, (at the moment) Vagrant doesn't install it automatically.

So you either need to use a basebox which already has it installed (Puppet Labs provides boxes too), or you need to install it yourself. Probably the easiest way to install is to use shell provisioner before the puppet provisioner(s).

Upvotes: 18

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