dbus

Table of Contents

  1. Description

  2. Setup - The basics of getting started with dbus

  3. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality

  4. Reference - An under-the-hood peek at what the module is doing and how

  5. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.

  6. Development - Guide for contributing to the module

Description

This module manages D-Bus.

RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian and OpenBSD are supported using Puppet 5 or later.

Setup

Beginning with dbus

In the very simplest case, you can just include the following:

include dbus

Usage

To add the oddjob daemon to the system bus:

include dbus

dbus::system { 'oddjob':
  content => file('oddjob/oddjob.conf'),
}

Reference

The reference documentation is generated with puppet-strings and the latest version of the documentation is hosted at bodgit.github.io/puppet-dbus/ and available also in the REFERENCE.md.

Limitations

This module has been built on and tested against Puppet 5 and higher.

The module has been tested on:

  • Red Hat/CentOS Enterprise Linux 6/7/8

  • Ubuntu 16.04/18.04/20.04

  • Debian 9/10

  • OpenBSD 6.9

Development

The module relies on PDK and has both rspec-puppet and Litmus tests. Run them with:

$ bundle exec rake spec
$ bundle exec rake litmus:*

Please log issues or pull requests at github.