Setting environment variables with puppet

Question

I\'m trying to work out the best way to set some environment variables with puppet.

I could use exec and just do export VAR=blah. However, that would only

Answer 1

I would take a look at this related question.

*.sh scripts in /etc/profile.d are read at user-login time (as the post says, at the same time /etc/profile is sourced)

Variables export-ed in any script placed in /etc/profile.d will therefore be available to your users.

You can then use a file resource to ensure this action is idempotent. For example:

file { "/etc/profile.d/my_test.sh":
  content => 'export MYVAR="123"'
}