Creating multiple directories using puppet

Question

I am trying to create multiple directories using the following manifests

class app {
$dirs = app8
$appdirs = ['/data/tomcat/app8/conf', '/data/tomcat/app8/config', '/data/tomcat/app8/libs', '/data/tomcat/app8/deploy', '/data/tomcat   /app8/webapps', '/data/tomcat/app8/temp', '/data/tomcat/app8/work']
file { "/data/tomcat/$dirs":
      path => "/data/tomcat/$dirs",
      ensure => directory,
      owner => root,
      group => root,
    }
file { "$appdirs":
  path => '$appdirs',
  ensure => directory,
  owner  => root,
  group  => root,
  mode   =>  0644,
  }
}

But when I execute it is failing with the below error

 # puppet agent --verbose --no-daemonize --onetime
 Info: Using configured environment 'production'
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Caching catalog for node-003.wiley.com
Error: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter path failed on File[[/data/tomcat/app8/conf, /data/tomcat/app8/config, /data/tomcat/app8/libs, /data/tomcat/app8/deploy, /data/tomcat/app8/webapps, /data/tomcat/app8/temp, /data/tomcat/app8/work]]: File paths must be fully qualified, not '$appdirs' at /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/manifests/classes/app.pp:15

Please suggest how to resolve the issue

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 13 '17 at 07:26

Remove the quotation marks from the resource title, and the unnecessary path parameter:

file { $appdirs:
  ensure => directory,
  owner  => root,
  group  => root,
  mode   =>  0644,
}

Using "$appdirs" creates a single string with the contents of the appdirs array in it, but you need to pass an array itself to declare multiple resources.

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

0

Looks like you need to remove the quotes from around the appdirs variable and you don't need to explicitly specify path.

See this answer for an example.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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answered Apr 13 '17 at 07:32

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