Utlizing puppet manifests to install puppet modules

Question

My prime objective is to add all puppet modules automatically, so that I could be able to start all my dev and prod env's just with a single command. How do I utilize a puppet manifest to install all puppet modules? Is there any way that I could do this?

Answer 1

You could use librarian-puppet to sync all 3rd party modules, it supports setting the modules' locations and versions. So production and dev run the  precisely the same code. The usage is very simple:

librarian-puppet install

• In other cases we have a shell script that runs puppet two times:

• one time a minimal module that is only responsible for fetching the required modules, 

• and then the full blown puppet flow when all modules are available.