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graduway / psick

A reusable Puppet control-repo
http://www.example42.com
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PSICK

Puppet Systems Infrastructure Construction Kit

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A Puppet control-repo [generator] on steroids, featuring:

This control repo, among the other third party modules, uses the companion psick module which provides:

Sample Hiera data for the PSICK control-repo is available via the psick-hieradata module.

PSICK is a Puppet control-repo itself, you can use this repository directly in a Puppet environment, and basically have a full PSICK setup, or run the psick command to generate a new Puppet control-repo based on the components you need.

For more details check the automatically generated Control repo documentation.

See PSICK in action

You can see a sample PSICK based setup by accessing to Psick Lab servers.

They are configured using this same repository. All the lab servers are Vagrant virtual machines running on a single physical server, where an NGINX proxies requests to the internal VMs.

You can reproduce the same by running vagrant up under vagrant/environments/lab (some integrations between Puppet Enterprise and GitLab have been done manually):

Note that this is a non High Available testing and development infrastructure, some of these services might not always be available (an NGINX bad gateway error implies that the backend server is down):

Note: While the setup of the whole PSICK lab infrastructure is automated and may be restored from scratch, that's not something we would like to do frequently. We give you credentials and access to these services, please behave.

Setup of a new control-repo

Download this repository:

git clone https://github.com/example42/psick
cd psick
./psick create

The psick command currently it just allows you to create a new control-repo and populate it either with a bare minimal skeleton, or with the full PSICK contents. In the future it will provide the possibility to pick single components (integrations, profiles...), see how they diff compared to your own control-repo and eventually update them on your local control-repo.

Once you have created your own control-repo, you can start to work with it. If you have chosen to copy the full PSICK contents in your control repo, you can run the following commands from your own control-repo directory, otherwise run them from the PSICK directory.

This applies to all the scripts and paths referenced in the docs, just be aware that some of the scripts in bin/ and other integrations might not work correctly in a not full PSICK setup.

Setup of a Puppet environment

This control-repo requires Puppet 4 or later, if it's not already installed, you can install it with this cross OS Puppet 4 install script (it uses the official Puppet repos):

sudo bin/puppet_install.sh # Only if you don't have Puppet 4 installed

Before starting to use it, you have to populate the modules/ directory of the control-repo.

You need to do this both on your development workstation, and on your Puppet server (after having placed your control-repo into the /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/ directory).

To install the prerequequisite gems (hiera-eyaml, deep_merge, r10k) and populate the external modules directory via r10k, you can run:

bin/puppet_setup.sh        # Only if you don't have the prerequisites gems

If you have already r10k and the prerequisite gems, just run:

r10k puppetfile install -v

If you also want to install the recommended (Fabric, Vagrant, Docker) tools that can be used with the repo, run:

bin/setup.sh               # Only if you want to install Fabric, Vagrant and Docker

The script, installs and runs r10k and then uses Puppet to install the other software.

Notes:

Directory structure

PSICK has the common set of files and directories of a Puppet control-repo:

Some extra directories are added in PSICK for integrations and tools:

Compatibility

PSICK uses cutting edge Puppet technology and all its components are expected to work on these versions:

In particular the psick separated module uses data in modules and requires a relatively modern Puppet.

For most of the other parts of the control repo you can use, compatibility is enlarged to:

Documentation

PSICK is full of more or less hidden stuff, which ease a lot Puppet code development, testing and deployment. Here is where you can find more info:

General Puppet documentation:

About this control-repo:

Managing changes: