Overview

This article explains how to deploy the JetPatch Connector on endpoints using Puppet automation. 

It covers preparing installation scripts, configuring server URLs, and executing the deployment through Puppet manifests.

Deploying the Connector on the Endpoint Itself

See article

Prepare The Script

Let's create the script on our Chef server because it needs to be local.

The connector needs to be downloaded to the machines. 

For that, 2 ways are possible:

Option 1: Download the connector from the internet using those scripts:

• For CentOS, RHEL, OracleLinux, SUSE, AmazonLinux (Puppet-DeployJetPatchConnectorFromInternetOnLinux.sh)
• For Ubuntu (Puppet-DeployJetPatchConnectorFromInternetOnDebian.sh)

Download the connector from a mounted disk accessible to all the machines.

In both ways, you need to configure the CoreServerURL Parameter with your JetPatch Server address.

For versions before 5.0:

coreserverurl="https://Your_JetPatch_Server_IP_or_Hostname/vmanage-server/"

Post 5.0 (assuming default port 8443):

coreserverurl="https://Your_JetPatch_Server_IP_:PORT"

Prerequisites:

• Create/Check the nodes group to apply the connector on multiple instances
• Create/Check file server mount point

• First, put the script into your mount point configured directory so it is accessible via the puppet file server.  
  • In the example above, a file at /etc/puppetlabs/modules/jetpatch/Pupper-script.sh would be available in manifests as puppet:///modules/jetpatch/Puppet-script.sh.
• Now we need to create the puppet manifest that will transfer that script to the remote server(s) and execute it. For this article, we are calling it jetpatchconnector.pp in the path/etc/puppetlabs/manifests
• Copy the code below to jetpatchconnector.pp file:

file { "/tmp/Puppet-DeployJetPatchConnectorFromInternetOnLinux.sh":
source => "puppet:///modules/jetpatch/Puppet-DeployJetPatchConnectorFromInternetOnLinux.sh",
mode => 0755,
} ->
exec { "/tmp/Puppet-DeployJetPatchConnectorFromInternetOnLinux.sh": }

3. Run the manifest, change "servers" with your group name:

bolt apply manifests/jetpatchconnector.pp --targets servers