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Puppet | rspec-puppet | |
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3 | 1 | |
7,277 | 10 | |
0.7% | - | |
9.8 | 7.9 | |
5 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
Ruby | Ruby | |
Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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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.
rspec-puppet
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Faster module tests with Facter 4 and rspec-puppet
To avoid breaking the Facter API, we ended up implementing an overcomplicated way of interacting with a hash. Using our dumb Facter backend, custom facts were now simply added to a hash, and querying them would just produce them from the hash if available:
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.
facterdb - A Database of OS facts provided by Facter
Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.
facter - Collect and display system facts
BOSH - Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
kmo-501-nginx - A mock nginx module for training
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
devdocs - API Documentation Browser
Pulumi - Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Build infrastructure intuitively on any cloud using familiar languages 🚀
fastlane - 🚀 The easiest way to automate building and releasing your iOS and Android apps
Mina - Blazing fast deployer and server automation tool
puppet-nginx - Puppet Module to manage NGINX on various UNIXes