Simplify personal config as hiera-managed params #119

dgoodlad · 2014-12-20T09:53:22Z

This is intended to be exposed and used via hiera. Example usage (yaml):

boxen::personal::projects:
  - some_project
  - another_project

boxen::personal::includes:
  - osx::no_network_dsstores
  - osx::global::tap_to_click
  - osx::global::enable_keyboard_control_access
  - osx::global::expand_save_dialog
  - osx::global::expand_print_dialog
  - osx::finder::empty_trash_securely

  - clojure
  - heroku
  - nmap
  - python
  - tmux
  - zsh

boxen::personal::osx_apps:
  - adobe-creative-cloud
  - alfred
  - arq
  - dropbox
  - evernote
  - google-chrome
  - gpgtools
  - hazel
  - istat-menus
  - minecraft
  - omnigraffle
  - playonmac
  - rdio
  - skype
  - slate
  - sonos
  - steam
  - things
  - tiled
  - vlc

boxen::personal::homebrew_packages:
  # Network Tools
  - httpry
  - ipcalc
  - mtr

  # System
  - htop-osx
  - pstree
  - pv
  - spark
  - watch
  - terminal-notifier

  # Dev
  - awscli
  - ctags
  - gist
  - the_silver_searcher
  - jq
  - keybase

  # Mail
  - w3m
  - notmuch
  - urlview
  - contacts
  - msmtp
  - isync

boxen::personal::custom_projects:
  blog:
    source: dgoodlad/d.goodlad.net
    ruby: 1.9.3
  some_other_project
    source: dgoodlad/foo
    ruby: 2.1.2

rafaelfranca · 2014-12-20T16:02:57Z

Very good.

tarebyte · 2014-12-20T16:19:01Z

This looks wonderful ✨. Does this mean that puppet-brewcask is now a permanent dependency of puppet-boxen?

dgoodlad · 2014-12-21T00:27:39Z

@tarebyte It's an optional dependency; if people use the osx_apps option, they'll need puppet-brewcask.

I forked phinze/puppet-brewcask last night into the boxen org, and will add it to the our-boxen Puppetfile once I release this 😁

A big goal of this work is to be able to deprecate about 200 of the 300 or so modules on here which only install an app or a package. They're broadly unmaintained, and a massive overhead for all of us as I'm sure you're acutely aware.

Simplify personal config as hiera-managed params

dgoodlad · 2014-12-21T00:28:44Z

Released in 3.10.0

goofansu · 2014-12-23T17:51:50Z

boxen::personal::osx_apps: has no effect while boxen::personal::casks: has.

It installed the puppet-brewcask, but didn't install any app.

bpinto · 2014-12-23T20:58:15Z

I'm having this error: Error: Execution of 'brew cask install boot2docker --appdir=/Applications' returned 1: Error: Unknown command: cask

Anyone facing the same issue? I have /usr/local/bin on my $PATH. And manually running the commands work.

dgoodlad · 2014-12-23T23:40:17Z

@bpinto Can you open an issue on the boxen-brewcask repo with some more details?

@goofansu I'll see if I can reproduce this

jamieconnolly · 2014-12-23T23:56:51Z

@goofansu @dgoodlad — I've encountered the same problem, and was about to fork this repo to issue a PR. The issue is caused by manifests/personal.pp#L58:

# $casks and $osx_apps are synonyms. $osx_apps takes precedence
$_casks = $osx_apps ? {
  undef   => $casks,
  default => $osx_apps
}
# If any casks/osx_apps are specified, declare them as brewcask packages
if count($_casks) > 0 { include brewcask }
ensure_resource('package', $casks, {
  'provider'        => 'brewcask',
  'install_options' => '--appdir=/Applications',
})

ensure_resource('package', $casks, { should be ensure_resource('package', $_casks, {

dgoodlad · 2014-12-24T00:05:56Z

Thanks @jamieconnolly! Fixed in #120, shipped as 3.10.1

blackjid · 2015-01-14T15:25:57Z

@dgoodlad can I use this configuration schema for global configuration? for example in the common.yaml file??
How should I do it?

blackjid · 2015-01-15T18:09:23Z

I found this boxen/puppet-brewcask#29, there I explain that is not working that approach for me... any idea?

sebroeder · 2015-01-31T16:17:46Z

Thank you so much for this awesome feature @dgoodlad!

I run into a small problem when I wanted to install Textmate:

boxen::personal::osx_apps:
  - textmate

Error: Execution of 'brew cask install textmate --appdir=/Applications' returned 1: ==> Downloading https://api.textmate.org/downloads/release
==> Symlinking App 'TextMate.app' to '/Applications/TextMate.app'
Error: Permission denied - /usr/local
==> Symlinking Binary 'mate' to '/usr/local/bin/mate'

The Textmate cask tries to symlink a helper binary to /usr/local/bin/mate. Since Boxen does not touch /usr/local by default the permissions are wrong and /usr/local/bin does not even exist.

As far as I can tell, we should install the helper into /opt/boxen/homebrew/bin instead. According to https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/USAGE.md the corresponding brew cask option is --binarydir=/opt/boxen/homebrew/bin.

To test this out I put the following in modules/people/manifests/sebroeder.pp:

class people::sebroeder {
  include brewcask

  package { 'textmate':
    ensure => present,
    provider => brewcask,
    install_options => ['--appdir=/Applications', '--binarydir=/opt/boxen/homebrew/bin'],
  }
}

This worked for me (I did not want to mess with https://github.com/boxen/puppet-boxen/blob/master/manifests/personal.pp#L56-L61 for now).

Could you add the --binarydir option there, please? Let me know it I should open a separate issue or prepare a pull request.

blackjid · 2015-02-02T21:22:51Z

hi @dgoodlad I'm trying to define some homebrew_packages and osx_apps in my user hiera and my common hiera, but I cannot get that working.

# common.yaml
boxen::personal::osx_apps:
  - google-chrome
  - hipchat

# users/blackjid.yaml
boxen::personal::osx_apps:
  - vlc

# config/hiera.yaml
:backends:
  - yaml
:yaml:
  :datadir: "%{::boxen_home}/repo/hiera"
:hierarchy:
  - "users/%{github_login}"
  - common

:merge_behavior: deeper

this is my configuration.... and the results are that only osx_apps defined in the users/blackjid.yaml are getting installed, in this case vlc, apps from common.yml are ignored.

What I have found is that if I don't add the boxen::personal::osx_apps: key in the user file, the common file apps are installed.

It looks like hieras is not using the --array flag to do the merges... do you think that's the problem? or maybe somthing else...

thanks!

blackjid · 2015-02-18T13:12:52Z

@dgoodlad sorry, I know this is closed, but could you please help me? thanks!

blackjid · 2015-03-24T21:33:58Z

anybody?? please! :)

tarebyte · 2015-03-24T22:12:32Z

/cc @seanknox

seanknox · 2015-03-25T23:55:32Z

@blackjid I assume hiera is properly handling arrays, or else I believe your personal manifest wouldn't have worked (it's just an array with one item). Regarding placement of hiera yaml files:

common.yaml: $BOXEN_HOME/repo/hiera
user specific: $BOXEN_HOME/repo/hiera/users/[username], e.g. $BOXEN_HOME/repo/hiera/users/seanknox.yaml

@blackjid @sebroeder and anyone still having issues, can you please file an issue if you haven't already?

blackjid · 2015-03-26T01:22:48Z

yes, that are the location of my hiera yaml files.

I will open an issue

blackjid · 2015-03-26T01:38:57Z

@seanknox I opened a new issue #132 , I also added a info about a few extra tests i did.

Based on GDS setup, plus updated to use modern Boxen features. See boxen/puppet-boxen#119 - Add jabley personal manifest - Add puppet modules to vendor cache - Configure SSH

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Merge pull request #119 from boxen/simplified-personal-configs

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Simplify personal config as hiera-managed params

dgoodlad merged commit 332e4bf into master Dec 21, 2014

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Add facts.d and boxen::personal config & docs boxen/our-boxen#695

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Consider homebrew-cask for instead of appdmg/compressed_app? boxen/boxen#76

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jamieconnolly mentioned this pull request Dec 26, 2014

Allow for custom installs using a brewcask_root fact boxen/puppet-brewcask#30

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Add --binarydir to brewcask install_options #127

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Updates and test fixes billyogat/puppet-ynab#2

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[jabley] Initial version of laptop configuration jabley/our-boxen#1

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