Setting environment variables with puppet
Solution 1
I would take a look at this related question.
*.sh
scripts in /etc/profile.d
are read at user-login time (as the post says, at the same time /etc/profile
is sourced)
Variables export
-ed in any script placed in /etc/profile.d
will therefore be available to your users.
You can then use a file
resource to ensure this action is idempotent. For example:
file { "/etc/profile.d/my_test.sh":
content => 'export MYVAR="123"'
}
Solution 2
Or an alternate means to an indempotent result:
Example
if [[ ! grep PINTO_HOME /root/.bashrc | wc -l > 0 ]] ; then
echo "export PINTO_HOME=/opt/local/pinto" >> /root/.bashrc ;
fi
This option permits this environmental variable to be set when the presence of the
pinto application makes it warrented rather than having to compose a user's
.bash_profile
regardless of what applications may wind up on the box.
Jake232
Updated on June 04, 2022Comments
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Jake232 almost 2 years
I'm trying to work out the best way to set some environment variables with puppet.
I could use exec and just do
export VAR=blah
. However, that would only last for the current session. I also thought about just adding it onto the end of a file such as bashrc. However then I don't think there is a reliable method to check if it is all ready there; so it would end up getting added with every run of puppet. -
Jake232 about 11 yearsThanks, and how would I tell puppet to only run the command if it isn't within the ENV hash?
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Spooner about 11 yearsIt should be ENV['VAR'] to access the environment variable VAR
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Steven Spasbo over 10 years
unless ENV[VAR];
puts "This is your code";
end;