Sick of having to write file resources to distribute the Augeas lenses that your module depends on? Why not use Puppet’s pluginsync functionality to distribute them with the rest of your module?

Under your module’s lib directory, create the following directory structure

modules/<module>/lib/
                     augeas/
                            lenses/

Your module should now look like this:

modules/<module>/manifests/
                 templates/
                 lib/
                     puppet/
                     facter/
                     augeas/
                            lenses/

Drop your Augeas lenses into this lenses directory and Puppet will distribute them to all your clients automatically. Now we just need to tell Augeas where to find these lenses.

The easiest way to go about this is to set a default load_path value for Augeas type. To do that, add the following to your site.pp.

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Augeas {
  load_path => "/usr/share/augeas/lenses:${settings::vardir}/augeas/lenses",
}

Note: Puppet will display an error for each lens during runs as it’ll try to load them as Ruby files. It’s noisy, but it’s not a fatal error. I’m hoping to find an easy way to prevent this.