offline installation of filebeat

[ltutar]

It would be nice to install the filebeat offline.

[pcfens]

Hi @ltutar - can you explain a little bit of what you mean by offline install? Are you thinking configuration only with filebeat already installed, a tarball/package already on the local system, or something else?

Knowing your specific use case might help a bit here.

[ltutar]

Hi Phil,
Something like

jenkins::direct_download: 'puppet:///puppet_files/jenkins/jenkins_rpm/jenkins-1.655-1.1.noarch.rpm'

would be fine.

1. The machines do not have internet connection.
2. I do not want to be dependent on IaaS guys in order to get the rpm in the local repo.

Thank you in advance.

[pcfens]

Using a repository is really the best way to do something like this - especially if a package is going to be used anyway. I've thought about adding support for the tarball downloads from elastic that might be extended to support something like this.

I'm a little concerned about shipping the RPM/DEB/tarball over puppet because

• Serving large files over puppet isn't typically considered best practice. These are probably small enough to still work without slowing down the server or agent though so this is a gray area.
• This module really wasn't designed with this use case in mind, and none of the remote file modules support talking to the puppet protocol, so there isn't a drop in fix.

I'll take a look and see what I can do, though PRs are always appreciated 😄

[saikrishnagaddipati]

If someone wants to do an offline installation. Change the content in linux.pp folder to
class filebeat::install::linux {
package {'filebeat':
source => 'rpm',
ensure => $filebeat::package_ensure,
source => 'give the path to your filebeat rpm file"
}
}

[skyrawrcode]

Even being able to use chocolatey as a source would help with this.

[pcfens]

Chocolatey support is coming soon thanks to help in #237, but I don't see a case where I plan on supporting puppet as a file provider for the package, so I'm going to go ahead and close this (though I'd be open to a MR)