Oracle Solaris-specific Providers for Puppet

Solaris-specific Providers for Puppet
By DrewFisher on May 07, 2014

By The Observatory

As I mentioned in my previous post about Puppet, there are some new Solaris-specific Resource Types for Puppet 3.4.1 in Oracle Solaris 11.2. All of these new Resource Types and Providers have been available on java.net since integration into the FOSS projects gate. I am actively working with Puppet Labs to get this code pushed back upstream so that it's available for anybody to work with.

Here's a small description of a few (of 23) of the new Resource Types:

• boot_environment
• name - The boot_environment name (#namevar)
• description - Description for the new boot environment
• clone_be - Create a new boot environment from an existing inactive boot environment
• options - Create the datasets for a new boot environment with specific ZFS properties.  Specified as a hash
• zpool - Create the new boot environment in the specified zpool
• activate - Activate the specified boot environment
• pkg_publisher
• name - The publisher name (#namevar)
• origin - Which origin URI(s) to set.  For multiple origins, specify them as a list
• enable - Enable the publisher
• sticky - Set the publisher 'sticky'
• searchfirst - Set the publisher first in the search order
• searchafter - Set the publisher after the specified publisher in the search order
• searchbefore - Set the publisher before the specified publisher in the search order
• proxy - Use the specified web proxy URI to retrieve content for the specified origin or mirror
• sslkey - The client SSL key
• sslcert - The client SSL certificate
• vnic
• name - The name of the VNIC (#namevar)
• temporary - Optional parameter that specifies that the VNIC is temporary
• lower_link - The name of the physical datalink over which the VNIC is operating
• mac_address - Sets the VNIC's MAC address based on the specified value
• dns
• name - A symbolic name for the DNS client settings to use.  This name is used for human reference only
• nameserver - The IP address(es) the resolver is to query.  A maximum of 3 IP addresses may be specified.  Specify multiple addresses as a list
• domain - The local domain name
• search - The search list for host name lookup.  A maximum of 6 search entries may be specified.  Specify multiple search entries as a list
• sortlist - Addresses returned by gethostbyname() to be sorted.  Entries must be specified in IP 'slash notation'.  A maximum of 10 sortlist entries may be specified.  Specify multiple entries as an array.
• options - Set internal resolver variables.  Valid values are debug, ndots:n, timeout:n, retrans:n, attempts:n, retry:n, rotate, no-check-names, inet6.  For values with 'n', specify 'n' as an integer.  Specify multiple options as an array.

Other Resource Types are:

• Datalink Management:   etherstub, ip_tunnel, link_aggregation, solaris_vlan
• IP Network Interfaces:  address_object, address_property, interface_properties, ip_interface, ipmp_interface,                                             link_properties, protocol_properties, vni_interface
• pkg(5) Management:  pkg_facet, pkg_mediator, pkg_variant
• Naming Services:  nis, nsswitch, ldap

The zones Resource Type has been updated to provide Kernel Zone and archive support as well.