Puppet environment and module deployment

R10k provides a general purpose toolset for deploying Puppet environments and modules. It implements the Puppetfile format and provides a native implementation of Puppet dynamic environments.

R10k supports the following Ruby versions:

• 1.9.3
• 2.0.0
• 2.1.0

R10k requires additional components, depending on how you plan on managing environments and modules.

• Installing modules from the Puppet Forge requires Puppet 3.0.0+ or later. Puppet 2.7 may work, but is generally not recommended as Puppet 2.7 is EOL.
• Git is required for creating environments and modules from Git
• SVN is required for creating environments and modules from SVN

For general use, you should install r10k from Ruby gems:

gem install r10k
r10k help

Puppet Enterprise bundles a copy of Ruby, so if you do not want to use the system version of Ruby with r10k, you need to use the bundled PE gem command for installation:

/opt/puppet/bin/gem install r10k
r10k help

Puppet 4 bundles a copy of Ruby, so if you do not want to use the system version of Ruby with r10k, you need to use the bundled puppet gem command for installation.

/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/gem install r10k
/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/r10k help

If you have more specific needs or plan on modifying r10k you can run it out of a git repository using Bundler for dependencies:

git clone git:https://github.com/puppetlabs/r10k
cd r10k
bundle install
bundle exec r10k help

R10k has two primary roles: installing Puppet modules using a standalone Puppetfile, and managing Git and SVN based dynamic environments. For more information see the topic specific documentation:

• Puppetfile Documentation
• Updating your Puppetfile
• Environment Deployment Documentation
• Quickstart
• Common Patterns
• Workflow Guide

For more general questions, see the FAQ.

• IRC: r10k has a dedicated channel, #r10k, on Freenode where r10k questions can be directed. Questions about r10k can frequently be asked in #puppet as well.
• Mailing lists: puppet-users
• Q&A: Puppet Ask

The original impetus for r10k is explained at https://somethingsinistral.net/blog/rethinking-puppet-deployment/

Please see the CHANGELOG for a listing of the (very awesome) contributors.