Provisioning JDK on Vagrant with Puppet
Motivation
Obviously, we can always create our own base box with JDK already installed, run “vagrant init <base-box-with-jdk>; vagrant up”, and we are good to go. However, on a basic Ubuntu server setup, the size of the disk image doubles (~375 MB to ~800 MB) with JDK included. So, depending on the need, it might be a good idea to use Puppet to run the required steps for installing JDK on a freshly-installed Ubuntu server.
As a refresher, the steps are as follows:
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential python-software-properties
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
NOTE: To install JDK 8, change the package name to oracle-java8-installer.
Translating into Puppet
Basically, we will need to translate the four lines above into a Puppet manifest, and then enable provisioning with Puppet on Vagrantfile.
A simple translation is shown below, in a manifest file called default.pp:
# default.pp - basically translating the four lines below in Puppet.
# $ sudo apt-get install build-essential python-software-properties
# $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
# $ sudo apt-get update
# $ sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
package {
'build-essential':
ensure => installed;
'python-software-properties':
ensure => installed;
} ->
exec { 'add-webupd8-repo':
command => 'sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java',
path => [ '/bin/', '/sbin/', '/usr/bin/', '/usr/sbin/' ];
} ->
exec { 'apt-update':
command => 'sudo apt-get update',
path => [ '/bin/', '/sbin/', '/usr/bin/', '/usr/sbin/' ];
} ->
exec {
'set-licence-selected':
command => 'echo debconf shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true | sudo debconf-set-selections',
path => [ '/bin/', '/sbin/', '/usr/bin/', '/usr/sbin/' ];
'set-licence-seen':
command => 'echo debconf shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 seen true | sudo debconf-set-selections',
path => [ '/bin/', '/sbin/', '/usr/bin/', '/usr/sbin/' ];
} ->
package { 'oracle-java7-installer':
ensure => present;
}
Enable provisioning with Puppet on Vagrantfile (refer to earlier post for the full Vagrantfile content):
...
# Enable provisioning with Puppet stand alone. Puppet manifests
# are contained in a directory path relative to this Vagrantfile.
# You will need to create the manifests directory and a manifest in
# the file default.pp in the manifests_path directory.
#
config.vm.provision "puppet" do |puppet|
puppet.options = "--verbose --debug"
puppet.manifests_path = "manifests"
puppet.manifest_file = "default.pp"
end
...
Based on the configuration above, save default.pp in a sub-directory called manifests/.