Seeking collaborators: native puppet cpanm provider
Any other puppet using perl developers out there frustrated by the lack of a native cpanm provider for package resources in puppet?
I just ordered "Puppet Types and Providers". Should be here in two weeks. I'm thinking it would be nice to contribute back a new provider to the puppet code base to serve our needs as perl developers and as sysadmins who have to manage perl code bases.
I just created a project work space for such work at:
https://github.com/hesco/cpanm-puppet-provider
I'll try later today to outline my thoughts on the user interface and the features I imagine this puppet provider making available in the README in that repo.
I would love to collaborate with others on such a project. If interested, please clone the repo and send me your pull requests, drop me a line at: hesco@campaignfoundations.com or call me at x21 at the phone number published in the footer of that domain.
Thanks.
-- Hugh
I blog about Perl.
You have a friend: http://questhub.io/realm/perl/quest/526bd9f77feb4abe0c00009b
There's SaltStack where such a feature could be useful too : http://docs.saltstack.com
If anyone is interested, let me know (luc [at] fiat-tux.fr), I would be happy to help.
Note that https://github.com/torrancew/puppet-cpanm does exist. I've not used it nor examined it extensively, but it's out there...
You might want to check out https://github.com/vcuweb/puppet-cpanm
it seems to be a more up-to-date fork of the torrancew one.