gitclone

Overview

Puppet module to clone git repositoroes.

Module Description

A simple module to clone git repositoroes. Useful when you need to install software from git rather than apt/yum.

Can also periodically update (git pull) repositories at scheduled intervals.

Setup

What gitclone affects

• Installs git via system package manager.
• Optionally clones and updates git repositories when gitclone::repo type is called.

Setup Requirements OPTIONAL

Beginning with gitclone

The module can be included with default values:

include '::gitclone'
gitclone::repo { 'hellogitworld' :
    source      => 'https://github.com/githubtraining/hellogitworld.git',
    destination => '/tmp/hellogitworld',
    owner       => 'nobody',
    group       => 'nogroup',
}

Usage

Classes

The module can be included with default values as in the above example, or explicitly defined to override with custom parameters. The parameters and their defaults are listed below.

Class { '::gitclone' :
    package_manage  => true,
    package_name    => 'git',
    package_ensure  => 'present',

}

Parameters within gitclone:

• package_manage: Optional. Whether to install git package. Defaults to true. Setting to false will just assume git is installed.
• package_name: Optional. Name of git package to install. Defaults to 'git'.
• package_ensure: Optional. Ensure value to pass to Puppet's Package type. Value must be one of 'present','installed','latest','held'. Defaults to 'present'.

Types

The gitclone::repo type is used to define the repository to clone/update.

gitclone::repo { 'hellogitworld' :
    source      => 'https://github.com/githubtraining/hellogitworld.git',
    destination => '/tmp/hellogitworld',
    owner       => 'nobody',
    group       => 'nogroup',
    depth       => 'all',
    branch      => 'master',
    update      => 'never',
}

Parameters within gitclone::repo:

• source: Required. URI of git repository to clone.
• destination: Required. Local directory to clone repository to.
• owner: Required. Username/UID to chown to after git clone/pull.
• group: Required. Group/GID to chown to after git clone/pull.
• depth: Optional. Only clone last x revistions. Defaults to 'all'.
• branch: Optional. Branch to checkout after clone.
• update: Optional. Update cloned repo via git pull every never, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly

Reference

Public classes

• gitclone: The main class to include this module.

Private classes

• gitclone::package: Class to install git package.

Types

• gitclone::repo: Type to clone/update a git repository.

Limitations

This module has been made for (osfamily) Debian and RedHat (and their derivatives), however it should work fine on any 'nix so long as git is installed or installable.

Development

Appreciate any suggestions on feature or code changes. Let me know if you want to contribute or collaborate.