Installing go-ipfs with puppet

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I am looking for advice or existing code to install IPFS with puppet on CentOS 7.

IPFS is not available in most package managers (separate discussion on that here), so I guess I will be creating a puppet module to install IPFS. The “canonical” install instructions don’t fit very well with puppet’s idempotent philosophy, but there are also multiple alternative installation procedures in the project readme. I will summarize the options here:

  1. ensure prebuilt package tarball on machine, exec unzip, exec install
  2. ensure ipfs_update on machine, exec ipfs_update install
  3. snap package installed using an exec, or else implementing snap provider for package (see here)
  4. vcsrepo the IPFS source code, install go… not packaged either?!? - ok so using this golang module I guess, exect go get, exec make install

None of these look great to me. Perhaps (1) or (2) really are the best way to go?

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My first pass at install module using approach (2) seems to be working, but it’s pretty kludgey.

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