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James Sumners
Asked: 2015-07-15 05:58:03 +0800 CST

Install a Puppet module to the global modules directory by default?

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I'm setting up a Puppet master server for the first time. It's configured to use environments:

/etc/puppet/puppet.conf:

[main]
environmentpath = /var/opt/puppet/environments
basemodulepath = /var/opt/puppet/modules

Whenever I install a module, puppet module install foo, it get installed into my "production" environment's module directory. What I want to happen is for the module to be installed to /var/opt/puppet/modules unless I specify an environment with the --environment switch.

How do I do that?

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4 Answers

  1. As of the current Puppet version (v6.0):

    By default, this command installs modules into the first directory in the Puppet modulepath, which defaults to $codedir/environments/production/modules.

    That means you need to set the modulepath so that '/var/opt/puppet/modules' is the first directory in your modulepath. Since the modulepath setting can only be set in environment.conf, you need to edit your environment.conf for all of your environments.

    nano -w /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/{environment_name}/environment.conf

    modulepath = '/var/opt/puppet/modules:/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules:/etc/puppetlabs/code/modules:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/modules'

    BTW: For Puppet v6.0 '/etc/puppetlabs/code/modules' may be a better choice for a global modules directory.

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  2. puppet module --modulepath=/var/opt/puppet/modules install foo
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  3. You are using environment config sections. So, you can set modulepath in each environment’s section of puppet.conf. Like...

    [main]

    --

    environmentpath = /var/opt/puppet/environments

    basemodulepath = /var/opt/puppet/modules

    --

    [production]

    --

    --

    [dev]

    --

    --

    If that setting is absent in a given environment, Puppet will fall back to the global value of the modulepath setting(/var/opt/puppet/modules). Or you can specify the separate module path for each directory sections. Hope you got the answer...

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  4. Each environment can have its own 'modulepath' if you create an environment.conf file within the environment directory.

    More information on environments can be found on the Puppet labs website here:

    https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/env_environments.html

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