Running Puppet on Solaris
Solaris was an early development target for Puppet, hence Puppet's support for the platform is mature and stable.
Installation
Puppet has Facter and Ruby as prerequisites, neither of which will be found on a stock, default Solaris installation. What follows is a quick walk through of the easiest way to install Puppet on a freshly built Solaris 10 machine. By far the easiest way to install puppet and its dependencies is to use the blastwave (Community Software) archive, aka CSW http://www.blastwave.org. You’ll need the blastwave package management tool, pkg-get, and a working copy of wget. Fortunately, even minimal Solaris builds ship with ftp, and ftp can be used to retrieve these packages. The following assumes you are logged in as root, and are using the bash shell:
cd /tmp ftp unix.hensa.ac.uk anonymous you@yourisp.net cd sites/blastwave.org passive get pkg_get.pkg get wget-i386.bin get wget-sparc.bin quit
Having got these binaries, you’ll need to install them:
pkgadd -d pkg_get.pkg mv wget-$(uname -p).bin /opt/csw/bin/wget chmod +x /opt/csw/bin/wget PATH=$PATH:/opt/csw/bin:/opt/csw/sbin
You may want to make these PATH changes permanent.
Once pkg-get is installed you should edit /opt/csw/etc/pkg-get.conf to use a local blastwave mirror. The list of mirrors is here http://www.blastwave.org/mirrors.php: The default mirror is too slow to use. At the moment, Puppet is only available through the unstable tree. Then you can use pkg-get to install puppet, which will pull in all the dependencies.
pkg-get -U pkg-get install puppet
Note that this not only installs puppet, it also turns on the daemon which starts looking for a local puppet master server. To stop this, after installation:
svcadm disable puppetd
Integrating Puppet with Jumpstart
Solaris 10
post-install script:
#!/bin/sh ### Setup mkdir /a/jumpstart mount jumpstartserver:/opt/solaris/jumpstart /a/jumpstart ### Blastwave support cd /a/jumpstart cp root.profile /a/.profile mkdir -p /a/usr/local/bin cp wget-`uname -p`.bin /a/usr/local/bin/wget chmod 755 /a/usr/local/bin/wget mkdir -p /a/opt/csw echo all | pkgadd -a admin.jumpstart -d pkg_get-3.8.1-all-CSW.pkg -R /a cp /a/jumpstart/pkg-get.conf /a/opt/csw/etc cp /a/var/pkg-get/admin-fullauto /a/var/pkg-get/admin ### Ruby from Blastwave cd /a/jumpstart mkdir -p /a/usr/local/sbin cp /a/jumpstart/ruby-install.sh /a/usr/local/sbin chmod 700 /a/usr/local/sbin/ruby-install.sh chroot /a /usr/local/sbin/ruby-install.sh ### Facter and Puppet from garylaw.net cp facter-1.3.8,REV=2007.09.23-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg /a/tmp cp puppet-0.23.2,REV=2007.09.23-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg /a/tmp cp admin.jumpstart /a/tmp cp /a/jumpstart/puppet-install.sh /a/usr/local/sbin chmod 700 /a/usr/local/sbin/puppet-install.sh chroot /a /usr/local/sbin/puppet-install.sh ## Puppet setup cp puppetd.conf /a/etc/puppet cd /a/var/svc/manifest/network ln -s ../../../../opt/csw/var/svc/manifest/puppetd.xml . cd /a/jumpstart ### Teardown cd / umount /a/jumpstart rmdir /a/jumpstart
root.profile
umask 022 PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/bin:/usr/ucb:/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/csw/bin:/opt/csw/sbin export PATH MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/dt/man:/usr/openwin/share/man:/usr/local/man:/opt/SUNWspro/man:/opt/csw/man export MANPATH PS1="`whoami`@`hostname`# " export PS1
admin.jumpstart
mail= instance=unique partial=nocheck runlevel=nocheck idepend=nocheck rdepend=nocheck space=nocheck setuid=nocheck conflict=nocheck action=nocheck basedir=default
pkg-get.conf
url=http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/blastwave/unstable
ruby-install.sh -- pkg-get running inside a chroot requires a working mnttab, and openssl (one of the Ruby dependencies) requires a working /dev/random and /dev/urandom. On my Solaris 10 Jumpstart installs, /dev/random and /dev/urandom exist in the chroot, but are symlinks to missing entries in /devices.
#!/bin/sh /sbin/mount -F mntfs mnttab /etc/mnttab mknod /devices/pseudo/random@0:random c 190 0 mknod /devices/pseudo/random@0:urandom c 190 1 PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/csw/bin:/opt/csw/sbin export PATH pkg-get install ruby
puppet-install.sh -- these installs might not require a chroot, and may work fine if installed similar to the pkg-get installation above.
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/mount -F mntfs mnttab /etc/mnttab
cd /tmp
mkdir /etc/puppet
echo all | pkgadd -a admin.jumpstart -d \
facter-1.3.8,REV=2007.09.23-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg
echo all | pkgadd -a admin.jumpstart -d \
puppet-0.23.2,REV=2007.09.23-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg
puppet.conf
[puppetd] # Make sure all log messages are sent to the right directory # This directory must be writable by the puppet user logdir=/opt/csw/var/puppet/log vardir=/opt/csw/var/puppet rundir=/opt/csw/var/puppet/run server=puppetserver.domain factsync=true
Simple Puppetmaster install and configuration
To do
Puppet on older versions of Solaris
Of course, blastwave will only work on Solaris 8+. However, Puppet does work well with the Ruby from sunfreeware for at least Solaris 2.6 and 7, and people have even had success compiling pkg-get for use with those platforms by pointing it to the sunfreeware repository - however, your mileage may vary with that (not tested by the person writing this paragraph). Certainly, using sunfreeware packages and native sun packages on their own works quite well.
