Puppet MOTD module

WARNING: Version 2.0 drops support for Puppet 3.x.

Overview

This is a simple message of the day module for Puppet. It's heavily based on the example from puppetlabs-concat.

Module Description

This module allows you to build /etc/motd in 'chunks'. That way, you can add content from different parts in your code.

License

Apache License, Version 2.0

Usage

See REFERENCE.

Contact

Federico Voges fvoges@gmail.com

Support

Please report issues on the project page.

Pull requests are welcome :)

Reference

Table of Contents

Classes

• motd: This is a simple class that manages /etc/motd using puppetlabs-concat

Defined types

• motd::fragment: Defined type to add fragments to /etc/motd

Classes

motd

Copyright 2014 Federico Voges, unless otherwise noted.

Examples

Simple example

class { 'motd':
  motd_local_enabled => false,
  add_puppet_warning => true,
}

Parameters

The following parameters are available in the motd class.

motd_file

Data type: Stdlib::Unixpath

Absolute path to MOTD file

Default value: '/etc/motd'

motd_local_enabled

Data type: Boolean

If true, Puppet will append the contents of /etc/motd.local. The contents of /etc/motd.local are not managed by Puppet

Default value: true

add_puppet_warning

Data type: Boolean

Adds a warning to the top of the MOTD ("${trusted['certname']} is managed by Puppet")

Default value: false

Defined types

motd::fragment

Defined type to add fragments to /etc/motd

Examples

Simple example

class { 'motd':
   motd_local_enabled => false,
   add_puppet_warning => true,
 }

 motd::fragment { 'extra motd':
   content => "This will be addded to /etc/motd\n",
 }

 motd::fragment { 'extra motd from template':
   content => template('some/template.erb'),
 }

Parameters

The following parameters are available in the motd::fragment defined type.

content

Data type: Optional[String]

Content of the fragment

Default value: undef

source

Data type: Optional[String]

Source of the fragment

Default value: undef

order

Data type: Variant[String,Integer]

By default all files gets a 10_ prefix in the directory you can set it to anything else using this to influence the order of the content in the file

Default value: '10'

2.0.0 / 2020-04-13

• update docs
• update dependencies verions
• update class to use better data type
• update fixture to use latest forge module versions
• add pdk tuning
• remove Gemfile.lock for PDK compatibility
• update Jenkins test to match PDK
• convert to PDK and drop support for Puppet 3.x
• Merge pull request #16 from fvoges/2.x
• Merge branch 'master' into 2.x
• Merge pull request #19 from fvoges/update
• add parallel stages
• bump ruby to 2.5.1
• Merge branch 'master' into update
• Merge branch 'update' of github.com:fvoges/fvoges-motd into update
• ignore .DS_Store files
• [blacksmith] Bump version to 2.0.0
• update supported puppet/ruby versions
• convert to puppet 4 including puppet strings docs
• Merge pull request #15 from fvoges/fix_unit_tests
• fix broken unit tests for Puppet < 4.9.0
• Merge pull request #14 from fvoges/jenkinsfile
• Add Jenkinsfile
• [blacksmith] Bump version to 2.0.0
• update supported puppet/ruby versions
• convert to puppet 4 including puppet strings docs
• Merge pull request #13 from fvoges/maintenance
• (maint) Cleanup tests
• (maint) Update all gems
• (maint) Update puppet version to 4.10
• (maint) Cleanup Rakefile
• Merge pull request #12 from fvoges/fix_travis
• remove .z from version ruby version in travis config as recommended by Travis
• add warning about drop of puppet 3 support in 2.x
• change class and defined type to use Puppet 4 data types instead of stdlib for input validation
• remove Puppet 3.x support
• [blacksmith] Bump version to 1.0.4

v1.0.3 / 2017-04-03

• update spec tests to use rspec-puppet-facts
• add rspec-puppet-facts ruby gem
• update changelog

v1.0.2 / 2017-04-03

• fix README formatting
• update ruby gems
• add 4.9.0 to test matrix
• bump default puppet to v4.9.x

v1.0.1 / 2016-12-17

• Merge pull request #10 from fvoges/remove_rubies
• Remove all Ruby versions from test matrix except 2.1
• Merge pull request #7 from fvoges/fix_travis_ci_badge
• Merge branch 'master' into fix_travis_ci_badge
• Update issue tracker URL
• Merge pull request #4 from fvoges/updates
• Merge pull request #9 from fvoges/update_contributing_rules
• Update Travis CI badge URL
• Update contributing rules
• Merge pull request #8 from fvoges/remove_ruby_193
• remove Ruby 1.9.3 fromtest matrix
• test
• Fix README
• Update Travis CI configuration
• Update metadata
• Change GitMagic rule to require ubjects to start with upper case
• Merge branch 'master' into updates
• Merge pull request #5 from gitmagic-bot/master
• add contributing.json file (https://gitmagic.io/rules)
• Update Changelog.md
• Update metadata
• Add coverage report to rspec tests
• Merge pull request #3 from fvoges/features/source_attribute

n.n.n / 2017-04-03

• [blacksmith] Bump version to 1.0.3

v1.0.1 / 2016-04-07

• Update metadata
• Add coverage report to rspec tests

v1.0.0 / 2016-03-06

• Fix travis matrix configuration
• Rename tests -> examples following current recommendations
• Add gem caching
• Update ruby/puppet versions exclusions
• Tighter Puppet/PE compatibility strings
• Update gems
• Update travis CI config
• Update define type documentation
• Bump version and improve deps specification
• Add source attribute
• No need specify FUTURE_PARSER=yes for 4.x (D'oh!)
• Adding more puppet versions
• Testing new travis ci infra

0.3.0 / 2015-03-26

• Removed tests for old ruby/puppet versions
• Disabling all the hiera spec helper stuff (not needed and causing issues with Travis-ci)
• Adding some extra facts to make the spec tests work with strict variables turned on
• Some gems were in the wrong place and causing travis-ci build failures
• typo
• First pass at adding spec tests
• concat::target no longer uses the ensure attribute to specify the fragment content
• motd::fragmet nows includes main class to ensure that it's in the catalog
• Added Travis-CI badge

0.2.2 / 2015-03-02

• Version 0.2.2
• Fixed minor issues with formatting

0.2.1 / 2015-03-02

• Version 0.2.1
• Some minor cosmetic changes to README.md
• Improved docs
• Added more documentation

0.2.0 / 2015-02-25

• Moved to metadata.json
• Added pkg to .gitignore (we don't want the packaged module in the repo)
• Fixing puppet-lint warnings

0.1.0 / 2014-05-09

• Fixed typo
• Added stdlib dependency
• Initial commit