Post about puppet-jenkins module

_posts/2011-12-28-jenkins-with-puppet.markdown

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+title: Pulling Jenkins' strings with Puppet
+tags:
+- jenkins
+- puppet
+---
+
+A couple months ago I created this
+[puppet-jenkins](https://github.com/rtyler/puppet-jenkins) module while
+experimenting with using Puppet to script or otherwise control more and more of
+my daily sysadmin-life.
+
+After a weekend of hacking I figured I was mostly finished, that was until Puppet Labs
+engineer [Jeff McCune](https://github.com/jeffmccune) picked up the module and
+added a number of rspec tests, CentOS/RHEL support and generally tidied up the
+place. Pretty neat I thought!
+
+Once again through the power of GitHub a weekend project has taken a life of
+its own now that multiple people are interested in the concept and have
+[forked the repo](https://github.com/rtyler/puppet-jenkins/network/members)
+accordingly.
+
+With the encouragement of a number of people, I've also [published
+the module to Puppet Forge](http://forge.puppetlabs.com/rtyler/jenkins) which
+allows for easy integration with thousands of Puppet installations.
+
+If you'd like to use the Jenkins puppet module from Puppet Forge, you can use:
+
+    % -> puppet-module install rtyler-jenkins
+
+Once the module is included you can slurp in the Jenkins module with this in
+your manifests:
+
+    class { 'jenkins': ; }  # logically equivalent to "include jenkins"
+
+You can also use the module to handle plugin installation for you with the
+`install-jenkins-plugin` type:
+
+    install-jenkins-plugin {
+        "git-plugin" :
+            name    => "git,
+            version => "1.1.11";
+    }
+
+(Omit the "version" if you just want to pull the latest)
+
+If you're interested in contributing, the [GitHub project is
+here](https://github.com/rtyler/puppet-jenkins).
+
+
+Add this to the ever increasing list of projects that were planted on GitHub
+and flourished afterward.