Getting the puppet module pcfens/filebeat to work - ruby

Question

I'm new to this site and puppet. I'm trying so setup a puppet module for filebeat. I want Linux nodes to send logs to logstash using this module
I want a configuration that looks something like this:
class { 'filebeat':
outputs => {
'logstash' => {
'hosts' => [
'<FQDN>:5044',
],
'enabled' => true,
},
},
}
filebeat::prospector { 'syslogs':
paths => [
'/var/log/*.log',
'/var/log/messages',
],
doc_type => 'syslog-beat',
}
Does anyone have any experience with this module or with Puppet in general and can tell me how to configure this module with the configuration above. I feel clueless right now and I can't seem to find a lot of documentation about this module. I would really appreciate a push into the right direction on how to setup this module.

Answer 1

You probably want to ask about how to start your Control Repo. But before you do that, make sure you read up on the Roles and Profiles design pattern.
To get you started, you will have start something like this:
$ tree
.
└── modules
├── profile
│   └── manifests
│   ├── base
│   │   └── filebeat.pp
│   └── base.pp
└── role
└── manifests
├── base
└── myrole.pp
7 directories, 3 files
(Obviously, as you can see from the example I linked above, it is going to have a lot more in it eventually.)
Then your base class:
$ cat modules/profile/manifests/base.pp
class profile::base {
include profile::base::filebeat
}
Which includes (the code you wrote above):
$ cat modules/profile/manifests/base/filebeat.pp
class profile::base::filebeat {
class { 'filebeat':
outputs => {
'logstash' => {
'hosts' => [
'<FQDN>:5044',
],
'enabled' => true,
},
},
}
filebeat::prospector { 'syslogs':
paths => [
'/var/log/*.log',
'/var/log/messages',
],
doc_type => 'syslog-beat',
}
}
Your role:
$ cat modules/role/manifests/myrole.pp
class role::myrole {
include profile::base
}
Now, you can test the code on the local host just by ensuring that your modules directory gets copied one way or another into Puppet's modulepath.
If so, try:
# puppet module install pcfens/filebeat
# puppet apply -e 'include role::myrole'
Providing you installed Puppet correctly, and your code above is correct, that would get you started.