wahalulu / puppet-rstudio

unmaintained: Yet another RStudio Module for Puppet

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Description

Warning: not maintained anymore!

A puppet module that installs and configures an RStudio server, and optionally, apache/nginx localhost proxy, on amd64 Debian(Ubuntu) or x86_64 RHEL(Fedora) The module does not use any available apache/nginx or other puppet modules.

Tested on: Debian 7/8, Ubuntu 14.04, and RHEL 6/7, Fedora 20.

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Sample Usage

Assuming you have Vagrant installed from https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html test the module with::

    $ git clone https://github.com/marcindulak/puppet-rstudio.git
    $ cd puppet-rstudio

If you prefer using nginx instead of the default apache, do::

    $ sed -i '/::apache/d' tests/site.pp
    $ sed -i 's/#//' tests/site.pp

Then start and provision virtual machines (VM) with::

    $ vagrant up

Test the basic HTTP from RStudio with curl or firefox, e.g. on the RHEL6 machine::

    $ vagrant ssh rhel6 -c "sudo su -c 'service iptables stop'"
    $ curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8410
    $ firefox http://127.0.0.1:8410

See Vagrantfile for the port numbers.

Note: in order to login into an RStudio running in Vargant's VM you would need to create a user inside of VM.

When done, destroy the test machines with::

    $ vagrant destroy -f

0. Configuration

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See the configuration options in manifests/params.pp. The version of rstudio-server is hard-coded in manifests/init.pp

1. Install the module and dependencies

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• on Debian/Ubuntu::

    $ sudo apt-get -y install puppet git
    $ cd /etc/puppet/modules
    $ sudo mkdir -p ../manifests
    $ sudo git clone https://github.com/marcindulak/puppet-rstudio.git
    $ sudo ln -s puppet-rstudio rstudio
  

• on RHEL/Fedora (on RHEL enable the EPEL repository https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL)::

    $ su -c "yum -y install puppet git"
    $ cd /etc/puppet/modules
    $ su -c "mkdir -p ../manifests"
    $ su -c "git clone https://github.com/marcindulak/puppet-rstudio.git"
    $ su -c "ln -s puppet-rstudio rstudio"
  

2. Configure the module:

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As root user, create the /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp file::

node default {
    include rstudio
    include rstudio::apache
    #include rstudio::nginx
}

Change permissions so only root can read your credentials::

    # chmod go-rwx /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp

3. Apply the module:

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• on Debian/Ubuntu:

    $ sudo puppet apply --verbose --debug /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp
  

• on RHEL/Fedora:

    $ su -c "puppet apply --verbose /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp"
  

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Dependencies

None

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Todo

Maybe a more recent version of RStudio improves this?

1. proxies (more often nginx) are not working on all platforms.

2. upstart start/stop of rstudio-server hangs on Ubuntu 14.04. Permanently disabling apparmor does not seem to help: https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/200717193-RStudio-Server-Will-Not-Start

3. In version 0.98.1091 there is an old openssl dependency trailing.