Installing a puppet module from a manifest script

I ran into this problem as well. The trick is to download the modules using a vagrant shell command before the puppet provisioner runs.

config.vm.provision :shell do |shell|
  shell.inline = "mkdir -p /etc/puppet/modules;
                  puppet module install puppetlabs/nodejs;
                  puppet module install puppetlabs/apache"
end

config.vm.provision :puppet do |puppet|
  puppet.manifests_path = "puppet/manifests"
  puppet.manifest_file = "site.pp"
end

Order is important here, and since the puppet provisioner hasn’t run the folder /etc/puppet/modules does not exist yet.

The reason I decided, like alonisser, to install the modules using the puppet module tool instead of using a module folder with the vagrant puppet provisioner was because I didn’t want to have to download all of the dependencies of the modules I was going to use and store all of those modules in my source control. Running these two commands results in 5 dependencies that would otherwise sit in my git repository taking up space.