Stageit

gistfile1.txt

1) Put these files on the master and the staging server which has PE installed (2 files on 2 servers)
2) `service pe-mcollective restart` on the master and staging server
3) try it! mco rpc stageit run manifest="ZmlsZSB7ICcvdG1wL2Zvbyc6CiAgZW5zdXJlID0+IGRpcmVjdG9yeSwKfQoK" -I centos65a


# /opt/puppet/libexec/mcollective/mcollective/agent/stageit.rb on Linux
module MCollective
  module Agent
    class Stageit<RPC::Agent
      activate_when do
        Facts["kernel"] != "windows"
      end

      action "run" do
        require 'tempfile'

        file = Tempfile.new('stageit')
        path = file.path
        file.close

        command = "/opt/puppet/bin/puppet apply #{path} --detailed-exitcodes"

        create_manifest = "echo " + request[:manifest] + " | base64 -d > " + path
        `#{create_manifest}`

        reply[:status] = run(command,:stdout => :out, :stderr => :err, :chomp => true)
        file.unlink
        reply
      end
    end
  end
end


# /opt/puppet/libexec/mcollective/mcollective/agent/stageit.ddl
metadata :name        => 'stageit',
         :description => 'Runs puppet apply on a Base64 encoded manifest on Linux agents',
         :author      => 'jeremy@puppetlabs.com',
         :license     => 'Apache v2 - No warranty',
         :version     => '1.0',
         :url         => 'http://www.puppetlabs.com',
         :timeout     => 15

action "run", :description => 'Runs puppet apply on a Base64 encoded manifest on Linux agents' do
  display :always

   input :manifest,
         :prompt      => "manifest",
         :description => "base64 of a puppet manifest",
         :type        => :string,
         :validation  => :shellsafe,
         :optional    => false,
         :maxlength   => 900

  output :status,
         :description => "The exit code of the script",
         :display_as  => "Return Value"

  output :out,
         :description => "The output of the script on stdout",
         :display_as  => "Output Channel"

  output :err,
         :description => "The output of the script on stderr",
         :display_as  => "Error Channel"

end