{"id":438,"date":"2013-10-14T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opstree.com\/blog\/\/2013\/10\/14\/puppet-module-to-setup-nodejs-deployment\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T20:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:05:26","slug":"puppet-module-to-setup-nodejs-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opstree.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/14\/puppet-module-to-setup-nodejs-deployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppet module to setup nodejs deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I would like to share my puppet module to setup nodejs deployment infrastructure on a linux box. This module performs the basic setup required to facilitate the automated deployment of a nodejs app. Very soon I’ll be introducing another generic puppet module that will run on top of this module & provide a full fledged automatic deployment of any node app. To view the source code of this module you can refer my github repository.<\/p>\n

Let’s talk about what this module actually does. First of all we create a nodejs user which we will use for all deployment related activities of all the node app’s, as a convention we have created a folder \/home\/nodejs\/nodeapps this folder will contain all the code of our node applications.<\/p>\n

This modules adds 2 scripts as well the first one is deployNodeApp.sh<\/i>, deployNodeApp.sh<\/i> is a generic script that assumes that node app code will be present in tar form at \/home\/nodejs it will clean existing code of nodeapp at \/home\/nodejs\/nodeapps<\/i> untar the code at corresponding directory of node app & restart the node app. As another convention we are using upstart for managing the node app i.e starting & stopping the node app I’ll talk about the upstart configuration in my next blog where I’ll talk about generic puppet module for a node app. Another script startNodeApp.sh<\/i> will take care of starting the node app after doing some per-processing such as loading some environment specific properties of node app which we don’t want to commit in the codebase i.e want to separate it out from deployment process choosing a specific version of node.<\/p>\n

This module also takes cares of installing nvm<\/b> for nodejs user so that nodejs version can be managed locally for this user or app.<\/p>\n

Though we already have a puppet module for nodejs<\/a>, but I had some specific requirements which I wanted to handle that’s why I’ve created this module.<\/p>\n

Let me know if you have some points of improvement in this module, one thing that I wanted to add in this module is to add npm installation but it had some other dependencies also I had some doubts whether I should have npm as part of nodejs module or not.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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