Preface

This document describes the functionality provided by the XLD Puppet plugin.

See the XL Deploy Reference Manual for background information on XL Deploy and deployment concepts.

Overview

The XLD Puppet plugin is a XL Deploy plugin that adds capability for rolling out puppet manifests and modules on an overthere.Host.

Requirements

• Requirements
  • XL Deploy 4.5.0
  • Puppet 3.4.3

Installation

Place the plugin JAR file into your SERVER_HOME/plugins directory.

Usage

1. Go to Repository - Infrastructure, create a new overthere.Host.
2. Create an environment under Repository - Environments
3. Create an application with puppet.Manifest as deployable.
4. Start deploying

NOTE: To Use dicitionary substitution with this plugin in the puppet manifest files you will need to update the conf/deployit-defaults.properties file by adding two lines as follows:

udm.BaseDeployableArchiveArtifact.scanPlaceholders=true udm.BaseDeployableArchiveArtifact.textFileNamesRegex=.+\.(cfg | conf | config | ini | properties | props | txt | pp)