Puppet 2.7 Cookbook

Distributing directory trees

"To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion." — Saying

When you find yourself deploying several files with Puppet, all to the same directory, it might be worth considering a recursive file resource instead. If you set the recurse parameter on a directory, Puppet will copy the directory to the node along with its contents and all its subdirectories, shown as follows:

file { "/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/custom":
    source => "puppet:///modules/nagios/plugins",
    require => Package["nagios-plugins"],
    recurse => true,
     }

How to do it…

1. Create a suitable directory tree in the Puppet repository as follows:

   # mkdir /etc/puppet/modules/admin/files/tree
   # mkdir /etc/puppet/modules/admin/files/tree/a
   # mkdir /etc/puppet/modules/admin/files/tree/b ...