Open Source Puppet Agent Installation on Solaris 10 without Internet

The initial process to complete the Solaris 10 Open Source Puppet Agent Installation and its dependencies is to use the OpenCSW packages. For that, one must first install pkgutil, which enables the easy retrieval of software from the OpenCSW repositories and use it for the automatic download/Installation of OpenCSW Packages. 

One of the main challenge with that method is the fact that the target host will need an Internet connection and in some environment, that isn't the case for some critical Systems. There are some solutions to work around that little Issue, one is to create a local OpenCSW repository (in a similar way as we did for RHEL in this post), another one is to bundle Puppet Agent Package and all its dependency in one package and use that package to complete Agent Installation on the target nodes with no Internet and that's the option I'm willing to discuss about in this short post.

In order to achieve that second option, we need just one Solaris System connected to Internet. On that System, we’ll be installing pkgutil and then create the single Package that'll be used on the Systems with no Internet Connectivity. 
Let's try  to detail that process in the following 03 short steps.

1. Install pkgutil:

The Installation of pkgutil is well described here and summarized with the 04 commands below (Again, Internet connectivity is needed on this server):

root@pkg-srv # pkgadd -d http://get.opencsw.org/now root@pkg-srv # /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -U root@pkg-srv # /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -y -i pkgutil root@pkg-srv # /usr/sbin/pkgchk -L CSWpkgutil

2. Create Solaris 10 Package using pkgutil

On OpenCSW, there are two Packages for Puppet Installation, the first one is CSWpuppet (or puppet) and corresponds to the latest puppet version 2 while the second is  CSWpuppet3 (or puppet3) and corresponds to the latest puppet version 3. So, choose the one you're willing to install, below I'm installing puppet 3 (as my whole Puppet Infrastructure is running version 3). 

Note below that the target option for sparc Solaris 10 is sparc:5.10, that'll be i386:5.10 for X86 System

root@pkg-srv # pkgutil \ root@pkg-srv > --stream \ root@pkg-srv > --target=sparc:5.10 \ root@pkg-srv > --output puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg \ root@pkg-srv > --yes \ root@pkg-srv > --download \ root@pkg-srv > puppet3 Solving needed dependencies ... CSWalternatives-1.2,REV=2013.10.15 (opencsw/testing) Solving dependency order ... Package list: CSWcas-initsmf-1.50,REV=2015.01.17 (opencsw/testing) CSWcas-usergroup-1.50,REV=2015.01.17 (opencsw/testing) CSWcas-migrateconf-1.50,REV=2015.01.17 (opencsw/testing) CSWcommon-1.5,REV=2010.12.11 (opencsw/testing) CSWfontconfig-2.11.0,REV=2014.03.31 (opencsw/testing) CSWfacter-1.7.6,REV=2015.02.11 (opencsw/testing) CSWfconfig-2.11.0,REV=2014.03.31 (opencsw/testing) CSWftype2-2.4.8,REV=2012.01.05 (opencsw/testing) CSWlibbz2-1-0-1.0.6,REV=2011.08.18 (opencsw/testing) CSWhiera-1.3.4,REV=2014.11.12 (opencsw/testing) CSWlibaugeas0-1.3.0,REV=2015.02.11 (opencsw/testing) CSWlibexpat1-2.1.0,REV=2013.01.01 (opencsw/testing) CSWlibfreetype6-2.4.8,REV=2012.01.05 (opencsw/testing) CSWlibfa1-1.3.0,REV=2015.02.11 (opencsw/testing) CSWlibffi5-3.0.9,REV=2011.06.25 (opencsw/testing) CSWlibfontconfig1-2.11.0,REV=2014.03.31 (opencsw/testing) CSWliblzma5-5.0.5,REV=2013.07.05 (opencsw/testing) CSWlibgcc-s1-4.9.2,REV=2014.11.07 (opencsw/testing) CSWlibgdbm4-1.9,REV=2011.10.24 (opencsw/testing) CSWlibiconv2-1.14,REV=2011.08.07 (opencsw/testing) CSWlibncurses5-5.9,REV=2011.11.21 (opencsw/testing) CSWlibtk8-5-8.5.15,REV=2013.10.10 (opencsw/testing) CSWlibreadline6-6.2,REV=2011.07.02 (opencsw/testing) CSWlibssl1-0-0-1.0.1l,REV=2015.02.08 (opencsw/testing) CSWlibtcl8-5-8.5.15,REV=2013.10.09 (opencsw/testing) CSWlibxft2-2.1.14,REV=2010.06.07 (opencsw/testing) CSWruby20-2.0.0p594,REV=2014.11.12 (opencsw/testing) CSWlibxml2-2-2.9.1,REV=2013.08.16 (opencsw/testing) CSWlibxrender-0.9.5,REV=2010.05.20 (opencsw/testing) CSWlibyaml0-2-0.1.6,REV=2014.08.03 (opencsw/testing) CSWlibz1-1.2.8,REV=2013.09.23 (opencsw/testing) CSWpuppet3-3.7.4,REV=2015.02.11 (opencsw/testing) A local copy of CSWcommon-1.5,REV=2010.12.11 exists and is of matching size. CSWrubyaugeas-0.5.0,REV=2014.11.13 (opencsw/testing) CSWtcl8-tclmodules-8.5.15,REV=2013.10.09 (opencsw/testing) CSWterminfo-5.9,REV=2014.11.28 (opencsw/testing) CSWterminfo-rxvt-unicode-9.20,REV=2014.10.31 (opencsw/testing) Total size: 20.7 MB A local copy of CSWlibexpat1-2.1.0,REV=2013.01.01 exists and is of matching size. A local copy of CSWcas-migrateconf-1.50,REV=2015.01.17 exists and is of matching size. A local copy of CSWlibz1-1.2.8,REV=2013.09.23 exists and is of matching size. => Fetching CSWlibbz2-1-0-1.0.6,REV=2011.08.18 (4/37) ... A local copy of CSWterminfo-rxvt-unicode-9.20,REV=2014.10.31 exists and is of matching size. A local copy of CSWlibiconv2-1.14,REV=2011.08.07 exists and is of matching size. => Fetching CSWlibxrender-0.9.5,REV=2010.05.20 (7/37) ... A local copy of CSWlibgcc-s1-4.9.2,REV=2014.11.07 exists and is of matching size. A local copy of CSWterminfo-5.9,REV=2014.11.28 exists and is of matching size. => Fetching CSWtcl8-tclmodules-8.5.15,REV=2013.10.09 (10/37) ... => Fetching CSWliblzma5-5.0.5,REV=2013.07.05 (12/37) ... A local copy of CSWlibssl1-0-0-1.0.1l,REV=2015.02.08 exists and is of matching size. => Fetching CSWlibxml2-2-2.9.1,REV=2013.08.16 (13/37) ... => Fetching CSWlibfa1-1.3.0,REV=2015.02.11 (14/37) ... A local copy of CSWlibgdbm4-1.9,REV=2011.10.24 exists and is of matching size. => Fetching CSWlibyaml0-2-0.1.6,REV=2014.08.03 (16/37) ... => Fetching CSWlibtcl8-5-8.5.15,REV=2013.10.09 (17/37) ... => Fetching CSWlibffi5-3.0.9,REV=2011.06.25 (18/37) ... => Fetching CSWlibfontconfig1-2.11.0,REV=2014.03.31 (25/37) ... A local copy of CSWalternatives-1.2,REV=2013.10.15 exists and is of matching size. => Fetching CSWlibaugeas0-1.3.0,REV=2015.02.11 (21/37) ... A local copy of CSWcas-usergroup-1.50,REV=2015.01.17 exists and is of matching size. A local copy of CSWcas-initsmf-1.50,REV=2015.01.17 exists and is of matching size. => Fetching CSWlibfreetype6-2.4.8,REV=2012.01.05 (24/37) ... => Fetching CSWfontconfig-2.11.0,REV=2014.03.31 (26/37) ... => Fetching CSWruby20-2.0.0p594,REV=2014.11.12 (33/37) ... => Fetching CSWfconfig-2.11.0,REV=2014.03.31 (27/37) ... => Fetching CSWftype2-2.4.8,REV=2012.01.05 (28/37) ... A local copy of CSWlibncurses5-5.9,REV=2011.11.21 exists and is of matching size. => Fetching CSWlibxft2-2.1.14,REV=2010.06.07 (30/37) ... A local copy of CSWlibreadline6-6.2,REV=2011.07.02 exists and is of matching size. => Fetching CSWlibtk8-5-8.5.15,REV=2013.10.10 (32/37) ... => Fetching CSWrubyaugeas-0.5.0,REV=2014.11.13 (34/37) ... Transforming CSWlibiconv2 ... => Fetching CSWhiera-1.3.4,REV=2014.11.12 (35/37) ... => Fetching CSWfacter-1.7.6,REV=2015.02.11 (36/37) ... => Fetching CSWpuppet3-3.7.4,REV=2015.02.11 (37/37) ... Transforming CSWcommon ... Transforming CSWcas-migrateconf ... Transforming CSWlibz1 ... Transforming CSWlibbz2-1-0 ... Transforming CSWterminfo-rxvt-unicode ... Transforming CSWlibexpat1 ... Transforming CSWlibxrender ... Transforming CSWlibgcc-s1 ... Transforming CSWterminfo ... Transforming CSWtcl8-tclmodules ... Transforming CSWftype2 ... Transforming CSWliblzma5 ... Transforming CSWlibxml2-2 ... Transforming CSWlibfa1 ... Transforming CSWlibgdbm4 ... Transforming CSWlibyaml0-2 ... Transforming CSWlibtcl8-5 ... Transforming CSWlibffi5 ... Transforming CSWlibssl1-0-0 ... Transforming CSWalternatives ... Transforming CSWlibaugeas0 ... Transforming CSWcas-usergroup ... Transforming CSWcas-initsmf ... Transforming CSWlibfreetype6 ... Transforming CSWlibfontconfig1 ... Transforming CSWfontconfig ... Transforming CSWfconfig ... pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWcas-migrateconf Transforming CSWlibncurses5 ... Transforming CSWlibxft2 ... Transforming CSWlibreadline6 ... Transforming CSWlibtk8-5 ... Transforming CSWruby20 ... Transforming CSWrubyaugeas ... Transforming CSWhiera ... Transforming CSWfacter ... Transforming CSWpuppet3 ... Transforming packages into stream (/var/opt/csw/pkgutil/packages/puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg) ... Install commands in dependency safe order: pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWcommon pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWtcl8-tclmodules pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWlibz1 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWlibbz2-1-0 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWterminfo-rxvt-unicode pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWlibexpat1 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWlibxrender pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWlibgcc-s1 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWterminfo pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWlibiconv2 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWalternatives pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWliblzma5 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWlibxml2-2 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWlibfa1 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWlibgdbm4 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWlibyaml0-2 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWlibtcl8-5 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWlibffi5 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWlibssl1-0-0 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWlibaugeas0 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWlibxft2 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWcas-usergroup pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWcas-initsmf pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWlibfreetype6 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWlibfontconfig1 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWfontconfig pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWfconfig pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWftype2 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWlibncurses5 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWlibreadline6 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWpuppet3 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWlibtk8-5 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWruby20 pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWrubyaugeas pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWhiera pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg CSWfacter

The resulting Package will be placed under /var/opt/csw/pkgutil/packages.

3. Install the Package on Solaris 10 SPARC System:

For the Installation, all that is needed now is to copy the Package created above on the   target host and install using the classic pkgadd.

root@my-sol10-ppt # pkgadd -d puppet3.7.4-and-dependencies-sparc-sol10.pkg The following packages are available: 1 CSWalternatives alternatives - Alternatives implementation specific to OpenCSW (all) 1.2,REV=2013.10.15 2 CSWcas-initsmf cas_initsmf - The initsmf class action script for CSW packages (all) 1.50,REV=2015.01.17 3 CSWcas-migrateconf cas_migrateconf - The migrateconf class action script for CSW packages (all) 1.50,REV=2015.01.17 4 CSWcas-usergroup cas_usergroup - The usergroup class action script for CSW packages (all) 1.50,REV=2015.01.17 5 CSWcommon common - common files and dirs for CSW packages (sparc) 1.5,REV=2010.12.11 6 CSWfacter facter - A system fact gatherer (all) 1.7.6,REV=2015.02.11 ................ [ verifying class <cswusergroup> ] Installing class <cswinitsmf> ... Creating /var/opt/csw/svc/manifest/network ... Creating service script in /var/opt/csw/svc/method/svc-cswpuppetd ... Creating manifest ... Configuring service in SMF ... CSWpuppet3 is using Service Management Facility. The FMRI is svc:/network/cswpuppetd:default Clearing svc:/network/cswpuppetd in case it's in the maintenance state... Enabling svc:/network/cswpuppetd ... [ verifying class <cswinitsmf> ] Installation of <cswpuppet3> was successful.

Check that the service is well running,

root@my-sol10-ppt # svcs cswpuppetd STATE STIME FMRI online 9:29:07 svc:/network/cswpuppetd:default

On the Puppet Master, sign the node's certificate and proceed as usual...

[root@puppetmaster ~]# puppet ca list my-sol10-ppt (SHA256) F2:89:66:3E:CF:24:0B:36:C9:86:D2:5A:99:A9:75:E5:2D:61:4C:E2:81:AB:09:FF:C0:26:8A:81:B2:5D:BB:0F [root@puppetmaster ~]# puppet ca sign my-sol10-ppt .... Notice: Signed certificate request for my-sol10-ppt