anyway to import gpg from url using source param in gpgkey class?

[bostrowski13]

Don't see this documented, and from what I can tell the manifest doesn't look like it supports this, but is it possible to use the actual URL of the GPG key and import it in and use that instead of having the file already downloaded or just copy/pasting the content of it in the code? Something like...

yum::gpgkey { '/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-microsoft-azure-release':
  ensure => present,
  source => 'https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc',
}

[dhoppe]

The current version of this module does not support the import of GPG keys from remote locations, but there exists an pull request:

• Add function to properly import gpg keys #123

[TJM]

It looks to me like this is supported now. You should be able to use any source that the puppet "file" resource type supports, including https.

If it is not working for whatever reason, you could just put the URL into the yumrepo gpgkey option directly. The reason to write the key locally to the filesystem would be cases where the host could not (reliably) retrieve it. We actually put the keys on our update server and point to them with URLs.