SIMP puppet module skeleton

• Compatibility
• Usage
  • Generating a module
    • Rake tasks
  • Testing the module skeleton
• Thanks

This is a very opinionated Puppet module skeleton, forked from the fantastic garethr/puppet-module-skeleton. It provides a template for the puppet module generate tool to generate new modules targeted toward inclusion with SIMP, a compliance-management framework built on Puppet.

Compatibility

• The module conventions were last updated for SIMP 6.4.0-0
• The default Puppet version is ~> 5.5.0
• The Gemfile.lock was last generated with Ruby 2.4.5

Usage

Generating a module

• Generate your new module structure like so:

  rake generate[<forgename>-<modulename>]

• Once you have your module then install the development dependencies:

  cd <modulename>
  bundle install

Rake tasks

You should now have a bunch of rake commands to help with your module development:

rake acceptance                                # Run acceptance tests
rake beaker                                    # Run beaker acceptance tests
rake beaker:suites[set,node]                   # Run beaker suites acceptance tests
rake beaker:ssh[set,node]                      # Try to use vagrant to login to the Beaker node
rake beaker:sets                               # List available beaker nodesets
rake build                                     # Build puppet module package
rake build:pdk                                 # Build Puppet module with PDK
rake build:pmt                                 # Build Puppet module package with PMT (Puppet ...
rake clean                                     # Clean a built module package / Remove an...
rake clobber                                   # Remove any generated file / Clobber buil...
rake contributors                              # Populate CONTRIBUTORS file
rake coverage                                  # Generate code coverage information
rake help                                      # Display the list of available rake tasks
rake lint                                      # Run puppet-lint
rake metadata                                  # Validate metadata.json file
rake pkg:rpm[chroot,unique,snapshot_release]   # Build the pupmod-simp-simplib RPM
rake pkg:scrub[chroot,unique]                  # Scrub the pupmod-simp-simplib mock build...
rake pkg:srpm[chroot,unique,snapshot_release]  # Build the pupmod-simp-simplib SRPM
rake pkg:tar[snapshot_release]                 # Build the pupmod-simp-simplib tar package
rake spec                                      # Run spec tests in a clean fixtures direc...
rake spec_clean                                # Clean up the fixtures directory
rake spec_prep                                 # Create the fixtures directory
rake spec_standalone                           # Run spec tests on an existing fixtures d...
rake syntax                                    # Syntax check Puppet manifests and templates
rake syntax:hiera                              # Syntax check Hiera config files
rake syntax:manifests                          # Syntax check Puppet manifests
rake syntax:templates                          # Syntax check Puppet templates
rake test                                      # Run syntax, lint, and spec tests
rake validate                                  # Check syntax of Ruby files and call :syn...

Of particular interest should be:

• rake beaker:suites - run all beaker acceptance test suites
• rake test - run syntax, lint, and unit tests, and validate metadata
• rake spec - run unit tests
• rake lint - checks against the puppet style guide
• rake syntax - to check you have valid puppet and erb syntax

Testing the module skeleton

To test the generator and the generated skeleton:

# runs `rake test` (syntax, validation, lint, and spec tests)
bundle exec rake test

To run the acceptance suite rake beaker:suites[default] after the normal tests:

SKELETON_beaker_suites=yes bundle exec rake test

By default, the tests remove the generated Gemfile.lock to permit matrixed tests where $PUPPET_VERSION is not ~>5.5.0. To keep the generated Gemfile.lock, include the environment variable:

SKELETON_keep_gemfile_lock=yes

Thanks

• This module was forked from the garethr/puppet-module-skeleton.
• A few other bits came from another excellent module skeleton from spiette.