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Sometimes you only want to manage a resource one time. This will help you do that.
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Version information

  • 0.0.1 (latest)
released Jun 20th 2016

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  • r10k or Code Manager
  • Bolt
  • Manual installation
  • Direct download

Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'binford2k-manageonce', '0.0.1'
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Add this module to your Bolt project:

bolt module add binford2k-manageonce
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Manually install this module globally with Puppet module tool:

puppet module install binford2k-manageonce --version 0.0.1

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Documentation

binford2k/manageonce — version 0.0.1 Jun 20th 2016

manageonce

Table of Contents

  1. Overview
  2. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
  3. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.
  4. Development - Guide for contributing to the module

Overview

I'll bet that at one time or another, you've wanted the ability to manage certain resources on a node--but only once. For example, you may want to manage user accounts with a defined initial password, but give your users the ability to update their password.

Usage

It's very simple. Just add the word manageonce before your resource declaration and it will only be managed one time. This will currently work for file and user resource types only.

manageonce::file { '/root/.bashrc':
  owner   => 'root',
  group   => 'root,
  mode    => '0644,
  content => file('mymod/bashrc'),
}

Alternatively, you can declare any resource type by using the manageonce type:

manageonce { "puppet master host entry":
  resourcetype  => 'host',
  resourcetitle => 'master.puppetlabs.vm',
  parameters    => { 'ip => 172.16.196.157', 'aliases' => ['puppet, master'] }
}

Finally, if you'd like to continue managing the resource, except for a certain parameter or two, then you can pass an array of parameter names as $onlyonce. Any parameters in that list will be managed one time only.

manageonce::user { 'joe':
  ensure   => present,
  password => hiera('defaults::user::initialpassword'),
  onlyonce => ['password'],
}

Limitations

This will currently only run on Unix-like platforms due to the hard-coded path for the external facts.d directory.

Disclaimer

I take no liability for the use of this module. As this uses standard Ruby, the only reason that it won't work anywhere Puppet itself does is that it's got a hard-coded path. (TODO: fix this!)

I have not yet validated on anything other than CentOS.

Contact

binford2k@gmail.com