This weekend, I’ve been playing around with getting my puppet modules up to par with puppet v4. I’ve also recently covered a lot of ground with Rakefiles/Travis CI and excluding files from the build. Building on that, I learned about Blacksmith and how it can let you quickly push new versions of your modules to the forge. It’s really simple.
First, you need an auth file. This belongs to your user, not the module repo, so there’s no chance it will make it into your git repo. You should still be sure it’s not readable to anyone but you, though. The syntax is very simple, just drop this at ~/.puppetforge.yml and replace the defaults with your user/password:
---
url: https://forgeapi.puppetlabs.com
username: myuser
password: mypasswordNext, make sure your module’s Rakefile and Gemfile are set up properly.
$ cat Rakefile # Relevant snippet # These gems aren't always present, for instance # on Travis with --without development begin require 'puppet_blacksmith/rake_tasks' rescue LoadError # rubocop:disable Lint/HandleExceptions end $ cat Gemfile # Relevant snippet group :development do gem "travis" gem "travis-lint" gem "puppet-blacksmith" gem "guard-rake" end
Once you use bundler to install the gems locally, you will find some new rake tests available:
$ be rake -T | grep module rake build # Build puppet module package rake clean # Clean a built module package rake module:bump # Bump module version to the next patch rake module:bump:major # Bump module version to the next MAJOR version rake module:bump:minor # Bump module version to the next MINOR version rake module:bump:patch # Bump module version to the next PATCH version rake module:bump_commit # Bump version and git commit rake module:clean # Runs clean again rake module:dependency[module_name,version] # Set specific module dependency version rake module:push # Push module to the Puppet Forge rake module:release # Release the Puppet module, doing a clean, build, tag, push, bump_commit and git push rake module:tag # Git tag with the current module versio
If your module is ready to go and your authentication works, you just need to do a rake module:release. This will run the following commands (useful if one errors out and you need to replay from there):
bundle exec rake module:clean bundle exec rake build bundle exec rake module:tag bundle exec rake module:push bundle exec rake module:bump_commit git push origin
You can of course use the target module:release, or use the independent targets. For instance, I wanted to make sure my build wasn’t 21M again, so I did the bump_commit/clean/build steps first, then the tag/push/git push:
[rnelson0@build02 local_user:master]$ be rake module:bump_commit Bumping version from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 [rnelson0@build02 local_user:master]$ be rake build [rnelson0@build02 local_user:master]$ ls -lh pkg total 12K drwxrwxr-x. 5 rnelson0 rnelson0 4.0K Nov 15 17:21 rnelson0-local_user-1.0.2 -rw-rw-r--. 1 rnelson0 rnelson0 7.1K Nov 15 17:21 rnelson0-local_user-1.0.2.tar.gz [rnelson0@build02 local_user:master]$ be rake module:tag [rnelson0@build02 local_user:master]$ be rake module:push Uploading to Puppet Forge rnelson0/local_user [rnelson0@build02 local_user:master]$ git push origin master Counting objects: 5, done. Delta compression using up to 2 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 317 bytes, done. Total 3 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0) To git@github.com:rnelson0/puppet-local_user 87a1957..13a66bb master -> master
For verification, I visit my module on the forge and the latest version now says 1.0.2. Perfect! I know how it works, in case something breaks in the future, and I’m confident that I can release the next version using the module:release target. Thank you to the people at maestrodev and the many contributors for this awesome tool!
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