Error: Could not parse application options: invalid option: --manifestdir

[ms82119]

I tried downloading both v1 and v2 demo's, but when I install the NYC traffic demo i get the error:

Error: Could not parse application options: invalid option: --manifestdir

at the point where puppet is doing the provisioning. Looking around it seems this was deprecated in the 4.x puppet versions. hashicorp/vagrant#3740

Not really clear where to take it from here though. Any help to get the demo working would be appreciated.

[trevor]

The new config looks something like this:

./Vagrantfile:

  config.vm.provision :puppet, :options => ["--debug --trace --verbose"] do |puppet|
    puppet.environment = "dev"
    puppet.environment_path = [:host, "foo"]
  end

Where you might have files at:

• ./Vagrantfile
• ./foo/dev/manifests/site.pp

[ms82119]

Thanks for taking a shot at this. I had been trying a similar approach but setting the envionment_path was something I had missed. Your suggested changes got me up to the point where it now fails with:

Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, Could not find class ::elasticsearch-demo_nyc for localhost.hsd1.nj.comcast.net at /tmp/vagrant-puppet/environments/test/manifests/site.pp:2:1 on node localhost.hsd1.nj.comcast.net

I did some more searching online and found that there may be some question about the correctness of using "-" character in the class name, so i changed it to an underscore "_" in the two directory names:

./modules/elasticsearch-demo_nyc
./modules/elasticsearch-demo_vagrant_env

and in the following files where it is referenced:

./modules/elasticsearch-demo_nyc/manifests/init.pp
./modules/elasticsearch-demo_nyc/metadata.json
./modules/elasticsearch-demo_vagrant_env/manifests/init.pp
./modules/elasticsearch-demo_vagrant_env/metadata.json
./manifests/site.pp

Now it runs much further, but still not quite there yet 😞
I now get down to the point:

==> default: Debug: template[/tmp/vagrant-puppet/environments/test/modules/nginx/templates/vhost/vhost_footer.erb]: Interpolated template /tmp/vagrant-puppet/environments/test/modules/nginx/templates/vhost/vhost_footer.erb in 0.00 seconds
==> default: Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, too short escape sequence: /\/ at /tmp/vagrant-puppet/environments/test/modules/nginx/manifests/resource/location.pp:234:25 on node localhost.hsd1.nj.comcast.net

I'm stuck again at this point, but am wondering if what i did initially with the site.pp file was correct. The demo didn't have this file, so i just renamed the default.pp to be site.pp. It only has one line

include elasticsearch_demo_nyc

I've tried to help myself as best I can, but again am stuck, as always, any help is appreciated.

[peterskim12]

Sorry I obviously haven't looked at this in a while and it looks like the vagrantbox has been updated to use Puppet 4.2.1. I'll try to get this fixed soon.

[asawariS]

@ms82119 We have updated the existing examples (and added some new ones too). The updates include a simplified workflow to replicate and run the example on your machine. Give it a try and let us know how it goes.

[ms82119]

I see you ditched the vagrant box approach, but these new steps work just fine. Thanks a lot.

[asawariS]

@ms82119 That's awesome!

Yes, we decided to simplify the getting started experience by reducing the need to download and configure additional products during the trial phase. We might bring back something like docker / vagrant alternatives to running the examples if the community request it.

Also, as we mentioned in the ReadMe, comments, suggestions, and feedback are welcome!