puppet-erlang

What it does

Provides type erlang to manage erlang installations within puppet.

Uses kerl to download, build and install erlang.

How to use it

First you make sure you have puppet-erlang in puppet's modulepath.

Next you have to include puppet-erlang in your puppet script:

include puppet-erlang

Now you can install erlang release as simple as:

erlang { "r14b04": }

Or you can customize it to your needs:

erlang {
  "erlang-r14":
    ensure  => present,
    release => "r14b04",
    target  => "/opt/erlang",
    clean   => true;
}

To run the script with puppet apply you have to specify modulepath:

$ puppet apply --modulepath /path/to/modules site.pp

Available parameters

• release - erlang release to be built (if the resource name is not a valid release)
• target - target path for installation
• clean - remove the build after installing it (true / false)

TODO

• Link one of the releases to /usr/local/bin,
• Custom name for the build,
• Multiple targets for more than one installation of the same build,
• Custom build parameters,
• Lastest erlang release,
• Add support for agner.