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| Puppet | facterdb | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 2 | |
| 7,262 | 42 | |
| 0.5% | - | |
| 9.8 | 7.0 | |
| 7 days ago | 24 days ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Puppet
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Updating modules to Puppet 8
The Puppet 8 compatibility guide detailed the major changes we had to be aware of and we found it invaluable the effort. It's probably worth bookmarking that page until you're done with the upgrade.
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What do you use ruby for?
I will happily direct your attention here: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet
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Faster module tests with Facter 4 and rspec-puppet
We started by decoupling Puppet from Facter as much as we could, introducing the possibility of having multiple Facter backends. While Puppet would use the default Facter implementation when running on its own, external users would be able to define and pass their own Facter implementation when initializing Puppet, similar to how puppetserver configures Puppet to use its JRuby-compliant HTTP client.
facterdb
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A 15-year Puppet Journey
I joined Camptocamp in 2012 in large part because of the role the company played in the Puppet community. Together with my colleague Mickaël, we took to standardising and modernising our Puppet stack and modules, and got deeply involved in the community, writing plugins (puppet-lint plugins, facterdb/rspec-puppet-facter) and tools (prometheus-puppetdb-sd, puppetfile-updater, puppet-ghostbuster, etc.).
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Faster module tests with Facter 4 and rspec-puppet
For each test, rspec-puppet stubs the fake facts using the custom facts API. The fake facts it gets from facterdb, which is a gem that contains "dummy" facts for a variety of operating systems and Facter versions—basically lots of files containing facter --json output. The resulting information is then fed to Puppet for catalog compilation.
What are some alternatives?
Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.
BOSH - Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Chef - Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Pulumi - Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Build infrastructure intuitively on any cloud using familiar languages 🚀
Mina - Blazing fast deployer and server automation tool
PuPHPet - Vagrant/Puppet GUI
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
Capistrano - A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH.
(R)?ex - Rex, the friendly automation framework
CFEngine - CFEngine Community
SaltStack - Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Get access to the Salt software package repository here: