Jira (PUP-731) Masters cannot reliably distinguish between multiple versions of a type/function/plugin used in different environments

[Patrick Hemmer (JIRA)]

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Patrick Hemmer commented on an issue   Re: Masters cannot reliably distinguish between multiple versions of a type/function/plugin used in different environments Supporting putting gems in the modulepath is mandatory. Consider the scenario where you deploy a repo that has hiera encrypted data, and now puppet needs the hiera-gpg gem to work. So before you deploy the repo, you have to install hiera-gpg. Ok, so you make a commit to your puppet repo to install the hiera-gpg package first, and then you make another commit to start using it. Cumbersome, but manageable. But now lets say you have multiple independent environments (development, test, staging, production), and you merge your development code into staging. Both those commits are going to go at the same time, and now you've broken puppet since the repo requires hiera-gpg, but hiera-gpg isn't installed. Also consider the scenario where you're not using puppet masters, but using puppet standalone instead. When puppet is run for the first time it'll fail for the same reason as before (hiera-gpg not installed, but repo needs it). So now you have to start installing these packages by hand (or as part of whatever installs puppet). While this is doable, I think it should be avoided if not necessary, which by putting the gem in the repo itself, makes it unnecessary. So the solution is to deploy the repo along with the dependencies needed to make the repo work. This is what tools like bundler were created for. And in effect, my little "hack" is one of the things bundler does. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-731 Masters cannot reliably distinguish between multiple versions of a type/function/plugin used in different environments Quoted from a previous ticket, #4409 The key problem is that a master can’t reliably distinguish between two versions of the same native type that are used in different environments (or between an environment which uses a native type and an environment which doesn’t). This is due to the fact that native types are defined using ruby code, which the mast... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.