Puppet - Install module dependencies for non forge modules

Question

I have some puppet module, which is not in the forge and I am not interested to put it there. The module has all it's dependencies written down in the metadata.json and for the installation I usually just clone the module from its git repo directly into /etc/puppet/modules/.

When I now call puppet module list the missing modules are listed, for example like this:

Warning: Missing dependency 'puppetlabs-apt':
  '<name>' (v0.0.0) requires 'puppetlabs-apt' (>= 0.0.0)
Warning: Missing dependency 'puppetlabs-stdlib':
  '<name>' (v0.0.0) requires 'puppetlabs-stdlib' (>= 0.0.0)
Warning: Missing dependency 'puppetlabs-vcsrepo':

Is there anyway to let puppet install the dependencies for non-forge modules, despite the manual way by installing it with puppet module install ... ?

Answer 1

You need librarian-puppet. With it you can easily manage the modules and its dependencies.

Introduction

Librarian-puppet is a bundler for your puppet infrastructure. You can use librarian-puppet to manage the puppet modules your infrastructure depends on, whether the modules come from the Puppet Forge, Git repositories or just a path.

You can download it from here librarian-puppet