This module provides a new type/provider for Puppet to read and modify sysctl config files using the Augeas configuration library.

The advantage of using Augeas over the default Puppet parsedfile implementations is that Augeas will go to great lengths to preserve file formatting and comments, while also failing safely when needed.

This provider will hide all of the Augeas commands etc., you don't need to know anything about Augeas to make use of it.

Ensure both Augeas and ruby-augeas 0.3.0+ bindings are installed and working as normal.

See Puppet/Augeas pre-requisites.

Type documentation can be generated with puppet doc -r type or viewed on the Puppet Forge page.

sysctl { "net.ipv4.ip_forward":
  ensure => present,
  value  => "1",
}

sysctl { "net.ipv4.ip_forward":
  ensure  => present,
  value   => "1",
  comment => "test",
}

sysctl { "kernel.sysrq":
  ensure => absent,
}

sysctl { "kernel.sysrq":
  ensure  => present,
  comment => "",
}

sysctl { "net.ipv4.ip_forward":
  ensure => present,
  value  => "1",
  target => "/etc/sysctl.d/forwarding.conf",
}

sysctl { "net.ipv4.ip_forward":
  ensure => present,
  value  => "1",
  apply  => false,
}

sysctl { "net.ipv4.ip_forward":
  ensure  => present,
  value   => "1",
  persist => false,
}

sysctl { "net.ipv6.conf.all.autoconf":
  ensure => present,
  value  => "1",
  silent => true
}

Please file any issues or suggestions on GitHub.

This plugin was originally authored by hercules-team. The maintainer preferred that Puppet Community take ownership of the module for future improvement and maintenance. Existing pull requests and issues were transferred over, please fork and continue to contribute here instead of hercules-team.

Previously: https://github.com/hercules-team/augeasproviders_sysctl