puppet-apt-repo-demo

A simple demo of a custom APT repository set up with puppet, using virtual machines managed by Vagrant.

Starting up the repository server

Execute the following command from the project directory:

vagrant up repo;
vagrant ssh repo;

This will startup a new vm that will act as a server for our packages repository. Although initially it won't have any packages installed, a sample one is supplied: 'myapp.1.0_all.deb'; in order to install it, run the following command:

/home/vagrant/add_package.sh

This will include the sample package in the repository.

Starting up the client

Run the following command:

vagrant up node;
vagrant ssh node;

After connecting to the node vm, you can run the following command in order to install the sample package:

sudo apt-get install myapp;

Adding or updating new packages

A great tool to create new packages is Jordan Sissel's fpm .

In our example, we'd like to create a simple new package based on a directory called /opt/myapp , which has a simple textfile as its contents.

[ hien@rebellion opt ] ls -lh /opt/myapp
total 8
-rw-r--r--  1 hien  wheel    22B Oct 20 19:11 README.md

[ hien@rebellion opt ] cat /opt/myapp/README.md 
Just some custom app.

[ hien@rebellion opt ] 

To create the actual package we can execute the following command:

    fpm -s dir -t deb --prefix /opt/ -n myapp -a all -v 1.0 myapp/

This will create a package file called myapp_1.0_all.deb. We now need to push it to our repo vm. A quick-simple hack is just copying it to the project's modules/repo/files directory, since it's symlinked inside the vm. After that, connect to the vm:

vagrant ssh repo;
./add_package.sh /vagrant/modules/repo/files/myapp_1.0_all.deb;