Writing a papply script

We'd like to make it as quick and easy as possible to apply Puppet on a machine; for this, we'll write a short script that wraps the puppet apply command with the parameters it needs. We'll deploy the script where it's needed, with Puppet itself.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create the papply script.

1. In your Puppet repo, create the directories needed for a Puppet module:

t@mylaptop ~$ cd puppet/modules
t@mylaptop modules$ mkdir -p puppet/{manifests,files}

2. Create the modules/puppet/files/papply.sh file with the following contents:

#!/bin/sh 
cd /usr/local/git/cookbook
sudo -u git git pull -q origin master
sudo /opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet apply /usr/local/git/cookbook/manifests/site.pp \
  --modulepath=/usr/local/git/cookbook/modules $*

3. Create the modules/puppet/manifests/init.pp file with the following contents:

class puppet {
  $papply = @("PAPPLY")
    #!/bin/sh
    cd /usr/local/git/cookbook
    sudo -u git git pull -q origin master
    sudo /opt/puppetlabs/bin...