傀儡r10k：Nginx Package

Question

I want to download the latest package/version of Nginx but it seems my code does not pulling the latest Nginx (1.18), any thought that I should add? here's my code.

class nginx {

  package { 'nginx':
    ensure => 'latest',
  }

  service { 'nginx':
    ensure  => running,
    enable  => true,
    require => Package['nginx'],
  }
}

Answer 1

As John Bollinger has pointed out, you'll be getting the latest nginx package from the package repository for your version of Ubuntu, which may not be the actual latest version.

If you use the Forge NGINX Puppet module , you will automatically get the latest version installed from the official NGINX package repository. Just add

mod 'puppet-nginx', '3.0.0'

to your Puppetfile and then rather than writing your own nginx class, include the Forge module from your manifest.

include nginx