Using the new Puppet Development Kit commands

Some features to improve quality in your Puppet development, such as puppet-lint, puppet-rspec, and commands such as puppet module create have been around for some time, but previously, you had to discover these tools out there in the wild, install them, and figure out how to use them effectively yourself.

Puppet decided back in August 2017 to bring these things all together on the client side and make them a breeze to use with the new Puppet Development Kit version 1.0. I can certainly recall puppet-rspec always took some time to set up and get working correctly. Now it's all really easy.

Let's take a whistle-stop tour of the module development process using the new PDK 1.0.

  • Creating the module ...

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