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Puppet package provider for the Mac App Store
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Version information

  • 0.0.2 (latest)
  • 0.0.1
released Apr 2nd 2016

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  • Bolt
  • Manual installation
  • Direct download

Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'binford2k-mas', '0.0.2'
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bolt module add binford2k-mas
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Manually install this module globally with Puppet module tool:

puppet module install binford2k-mas --version 0.0.2

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Documentation

binford2k/mas — version 0.0.2 Apr 2nd 2016

Mac App Store package management

Table of Contents

  1. Overview
  2. Setup
  3. Limitations

Overview

This is a barebones package provider for the Mac App Store. It's still fairly early in development, but should work for most things. Be aware that the Mac App Store is intended for interactive use, so you'll likely get popup dialogs requesting your iCloud password unless you save it for free items.

This uses the mas command-line tool:

Projects $ puppet resource package
package { '1Password':
  ensure => '443987910',
}
package { 'DaisyDisk':
  ensure => '411643860',
}
package { 'Dash':
  ensure => '458034879',
}
package { 'GarageBand':
  ensure => '682658836',
}
package { 'Keynote':
  ensure => '409183694',
}
package { 'Kindle':
  ensure => '405399194',
}
[... plus a whole pile of gems, etc ...]

Projects $ puppet resource package Dash
package { 'Dash':
  ensure => '458034879',
}

This can take standard ensure parameters and can also accept App IDs. This is a bit weird, and I might refactor it sometime. But it seemed like the most reasonable way to handle the unusual versioning scheme used by the Mac App Store. This allows you to install apps that don't have unique names.

package { 'Dash':
  ensure   => present,
  provider => mas,
}

package { 'Kindle':
  ensure   => '405399194',
  provider => mas,
}

package { 'Twitter':
  ensure   => latest,
  provider => mas,
}

Setup

This comes with a utility class to install the mas tool using Homebrew and (optionally) to log into an account. This isn't required if you're managing this some other way, or prefer the end user to manage the logged in account manually.

Warning: including passwords in Puppet manifests means that they are visible in the catalog and every report. You might consider using binford2k/node_encrypt to mitigate that issue!

Limitations

  • This is super early in development.
  • Installing by name will only work when the App Store has only a single app by that name. Otherwise, you'll need to use the app ID.
  • You cannot upgrade a single package. Instead, it will upgrade all outdated packages. This is a limitation of the mas tool.
  • You can only install the latest version of any app.
  • You may see popup dialogs requesting App Store logins. Choose to save your password for free apps to see this dialog less.

Disclaimer

I take no liability for the use of this module.

Contact

binford2k@gmail.com