Install a package from tarball using puppet - activemq

Question

I'm trying to install ActiveMQ using puppet. this package comes in tar ball. how can I make sure each and every file is being pushed (recursively) from puppet and it makes sure the service is running. As it has its own executable in 'bin' dir.

Answer 1

I would ask is it essential to install activemq from a Tarball? It'd probably be easier to manage as a package, such as a yum or apt install.
Managing tarballs is always going to be more difficult, especially when updating versions, or dealing with issues like downloads failing.
I would recommend using an existing activemq module from the forge:
https://forge.puppet.com/modules?utf-8=%E2%9C%93&sort=latest_release&q=activemq
To give you a general idea of how it might look, here's some basic code that could work:
$activemq_home = "/usr/local/activemq"
package{"java-1.6.0-openjdk":
ensure => installed;
}
$activemq_version = "5.4.3"
user {"activemq":
ensure => present,
home => $activemq_home,
managehome => false,
shell => "/bin/sh",
}
group {"activemq":
ensure => present,
require => User["activemq"],
}
Exec{path => ["/usr/local/bin","/usr/bin","/bin"]}
$puppet_cache = "/usr/local/src/gitorious"
file {$puppet_cache:
ensure => directory,
owner => "root",
group => "root",
}
exec { 'download_amq_src':
unless => '/usr/bin/test -e ${activemq_home}/apache-activemq-${amq_version}-bin.tar.gz',
command => 'cd /tmp && /usr/bin/wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/activemq/apache-activemq/${amq_version}/apache-activemq-${amq_version}-bin.tar.gz',
require => File[$activemq_home],
}
# Unpack the archive in the amq user directory
exec { 'unpack_amq_src':
onlyif => '/usr/bin/test -d ${activemq_home}/apache-activemq-${amq_version}-bin',
command => 'cd $amq_home && /bin/tar -xf /tmp/apache-activemq-${amq_version}-bin.tar.gz',
require => Exec['download_amq'],
}
file {"/etc/init.d/activemq":
ensure => file,
mode => 755,
owner => "root",
group => "root",
content => template("activemq/etc/init.d/activemq.erb"),
require => File["/etc/activemq.conf"],
}
service{"activemq":
enable => true,
ensure => running,
require => File["/etc/init.d/activemq"],
}
file { "activemq.xml":
path => "$activemq_home/conf/activemq.xml",
ensure => present,
mode => 644,
owner => "activemq",
group => "activemq",
content => template("activemq/activemq.xml.erb"),
require => File["/etc/init.d/activemq"],
notify => Service["activemq"],
}