A short talk I gave at the first Puppet User Group in London about three tools I made to make my Puppet life easier: * puppet-install-shell * vagrant-puppet-install * puppet-doc-lint

1. LittlePuppetToolsToMakeYour
LifeBetter!

2. Bithyperbolic...

3. SomethingsImadethathelpme!
Hopefully they can help you too!

4. Me
Developer turned ops guy
Working at Kainos, contracting on
Government Projects

5. PreviouslyontheIERproject
Now live!
https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

6. Now on the DEFRA CAPD project

7. Sofirstup!

8. puppet-install-shell
https://github.com/petems/puppet-
install-shell

9. · Shell (not bash!) script
· Installs Puppet on (most!) Unix flavour
machines
· Plan to support all platforms officially
supported by Puppet (https://
docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/platforms.html)
· Currently supports EL, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu,
OSX and Arch!

10. Amixofvariousprovisioner
scriptsIfoundaroundthe
Internet

11. Alotof
test -f

12. machine=`uname -m`
os=`uname -s`
if test -f "/etc/lsb-release" && grep -q DISTRIB_ID /etc/lsb-release; then
platform=`grep DISTRIB_ID /etc/lsb-release | cut -d "=" -f 2 | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
platform_version=`grep DISTRIB_RELEASE /etc/lsb-release | cut -d "=" -f 2`

13. Quickonesteptogetpuppet
installedonamachine:

14. curl https://raw.github.com/petems/
puppet-install-shell/master/
install_puppet.sh | sudo sh

15. LiveDemoWarning!

16. Itsmainusewasforanother
tool:

17. vagrant-puppet-install

18. Well,makingisastrongterm...

19. Tookovermaintenanceof!

20. Easywaytoprovisionservers
createdwithVagrant

21. WorkswithVagrantCloud
Providerstoo!

22. Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.define :ubuntu do |ubuntu|
ubuntu.puppet_install.puppet_version = '3.6.1'
ubuntu.vm.box = "puppetlabs/ubuntu-14.04-64-nocm"
ubuntu.vm.provision :puppet do |puppet|
puppet.manifests_path = File.expand_path('../../../support/manifests', __FILE__)
puppet.manifest_file = "base.pp"
end
ubuntu.vm.provision "shell", inline: "puppet --version"
end

23. Niceandsimple...
· Checks the version you've defined is valid (from
RubyGems.org...)
· Rsyncs or downloads a script that installs
puppet (uses puppet-install-shell script by
default!)
· Standard error handling and catching
· Windows support soon!

24. LiveDemoWarning!

25. Andfinally

26. Puppet-doc-lint
· Tool for module maintainers
· Looks through your Puppet documentation and
shows when you have undocumented
parameters
· Or documentation on parameters that are now
missing

27. Currentstatus:Verybrittle!
· New syntax breaks it!
· A few false positives
· A few false negatives...

28. Butpeopleareusingit
(woo!)
Well,afew...

29. @electrical (Richard Pijnenburg) is my
current ginea pig!
He's been using it for logstash Puppet
module
It's helped him, so it's helped at least 1 person! :)

30. LiveDemoWarning!

31. That'sit!

32. Q&A