baculaweb

Table of Contents

• baculaweb
  • Table of Contents
  • Overview
  • Requirements
    • Optional Setup Requirements
    • Beginning with baculaweb
  • Usage
    • Install and enable baculaweb
    • Default User and Password for fresh installs
    • Configure bacula catalog databases
    • Configure custom installation options
    • Configure baculaweb
  • Reference
  • Limitations
  • Development
    • Running acceptance tests
    • Running unit tests
  • Release module to Puppet Forge
    • Prepare
    • Commit and push
    • configure github actions secrets
    • Run github actions release workflow
  • Contributing
  • Release Notes

Overview

This module install and configures the baculaweb a web based reporting and monitoring tool for Bacula.

You can find the baculaweb documention here: https://www.bacula-web.org/

The module only install and configure the webapp itself. You still require a webserver (nginx or apache) with php.

Requirements

• Puppet >= 6.0.0
• Bacula-Web 8.6.0 or later (due to breaking changes in this release)
• puppetlabs/stdlib
• puppet/archive

Optional Setup Requirements

Recommended modules for apache + php setup:

• puppetlabs/apache
• puppet/php

The needed requirements for the webserver and for php are documented here:

http://docs.bacula-web.org/en/latest/02_install/requirements.html

Beginning with baculaweb

All parameters for the baculaweb module are contained within the main baculaweb class, so for any function of the module, set the options you want. All configuration parameters can be assigned hiera. The default values are also lookuped up by hiera. See the common usages below for examples.

Usage

Install and enable baculaweb

include baculaweb

Default User and Password for fresh installs

After installation the default user is admin and the default password is password. You should change this after installation.

See: https://docs.bacula-web.org/en/latest/02_install/finalize.html#reset-user-password

The default application.db is only deployed once. Data is persisted between upgrades in baculaweb::data_dir.

Configure bacula catalog databases

To get baculaweb up and running configure at least one bacula catalog database with the paramter catalog_db.

See the following example for the different catalog database types:

class { 'baculaweb':
  catalog_db => [
    {
      'label'    => 'EXAMPLE: MySQL backup catalog',
      'host'     => 'localhost',
      'login'    => 'bacula',
      'password' => 'verystrongpassword',
      'db_name'  => 'bacula',
      'db_type'  => 'mysql',
      'db_port'  => 3306,
    },
    {
      'label'    => 'EXAMPLE: PostgreSQL backup catalog',
      'host'     => 'localhost',
      'login'    => 'bacula',
      'password' => 'verystrongpassword',
      'db_name'  => 'bacula',
      'db_type'  => 'mysql',
      'db_port'  => 3306,
    },
    {
      'label'   => 'EXAMPLE: SQLite backup catalog',
      'db_name' => '/path/to/database',
      'db_type' => 'sqlite',
    },
  ]
}

Using Hiera:

baculaweb::catalog_db:
  - label: 'EXAMPLE: MySQL backup catalog'
    host: 'localhost'
    login: 'bacula'
    password: 'verystrongpassword'
    db_name: 'bacula'
    db_type: 'mysql'
    db_port: 3306
  - label: 'EXAMPLE: PostgreSQL backup catalog'
    host: 'localhost'
    login: 'bacula'
    password: 'verystrongpassword'
    db_name: 'bacula'
    db_type: 'pgsql'
    db_port: 5432
  - label: 'EXAMPLE: SQLite backup catalog'
    db_name: '/path/to/database'
    db_type: 'sqlite'

Configure custom installation options

Configure custom directories, ownerships and version:

class { 'baculaweb':
  version           => '8.6.3'
  root_dir          => '/var/www/html/bacula-web',
  extract_base_dir  => '/opt/bacula-web',
  user              => 'apache',
  group             => 'apache'
}

Using Hiera:

baculaweb:
  version: '8.6.3'
  root_dir: '/var/www/html/bacula-web'
  extract_base_dir: '/opt/bacula-web'
  user: 'apache'
  group: 'apache'

Configure baculaweb

You find an overview of the baculaweb settings here: http://docs.bacula-web.org/en/latest/02_install/configure.html

See the following example to configure the settings:

class { 'baculaweb':
  language              => 'en_US',
  hide_empty_pools      => true,
  show_inactive_clients => true,
  datetime_format       => 'Y-m-d H:i:s',
  enable_users_auth     => false,
  debug                 => false,
  catalog_db            => [
    {
      'label'    => 'MySQL backup catalog',
      'host'     => 'localhost',
      'login'    => 'bacula',
      'password' => 'verystrongpassword',
      'db_name'  => 'bacula',
      'db_type'  => 'mysql',
      'db_port'  => 3306,
    },
  ]
}

Using Hiera:

baculaweb:
  language: 'en_US'
  hide_empty_pools: true
  show_inactive_clients: true
  datetime_format: 'Y-m-d H:i:s'
  enable_users_auth: false
  debug: false
  catalog_db:
    - label: 'MySQL backup catalog'
      host: 'localhost'
      login: 'bacula'
      password: 'verystrongpassword'
      db_name: 'bacula'
      db_type: 'mysql'
      db_port: 3306

Reference

See REFERENCE.md

Limitations

For a list of supported operating systems, see metadata.json

Development

This module uses puppet_litmus for running acceptance tests.

Running acceptance tests

Create test environment:

./scripts/create_test_env

Run the acceptance tests:

./scripts/acceptance_tests

(Optional) Access the baculaweb application (user/pw: admin/password):

http://127.0.0.1:8091/bacula-web

Remove the test environment:

./scripts/remove_test_env

Running unit tests

./scripts/unit_tests

Release module to Puppet Forge

Prepare

First prepare the release with:

./scripts/release_prep

This will set the version in metadata.json, create REFERENCE.md and CHANGELOG.md.

Commit and push

Then commit the changes and push them to the repository.

configure github actions secrets

https://github.com/andeman/puppet-opnsense/settings/secrets/actions

Ensure that the following secrets are set in the github repository:

• FORGE_API_KEY (your puppet forge api key)

Run github actions release workflow

Then run github actions pipeline "Publish module to puppet forge" from main branch to release the module to the forge:

https://github.com/andeman/puppet-baculaweb/actions/workflows/release.yaml

Contributing

Please use the GitHub issues functionality to report any bugs or requests for new features. Feel free to fork and submit pull requests for potential contributions.

All contributions must pass all existing tests, new features should provide additional unit/acceptance tests.

Release Notes

See CHANGELOG.md