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Writing Puppet modules for Boxen
Writing Puppet modules for Boxen is easy.
Tooling
- Always use Bundler
- Always use librarian-puppet
- Always use puppet-lint
- Always use rspec-puppet
Directory structure
We follow Puppet's recommended structure very closely. Here's the directory structure from the boxen Puppet module:
├── Gemfile
├── Gemfile.lock
├── README.md
├── files
│ ├── README.md
│ └── gemrc
├── lib
│ ├── facter
│ │ ├── boxen.rb
│ │ └── root_encrypted.rb
│ └── puppet
│ ├── parser
│ │ └── functions
│ │ ├── file_exists.rb
│ │ ├── include_all_projects.rb
│ │ └── include_projects_from_boxen_cli.rb
│ ├── provider
│ │ ├── package
│ │ │ ├── compressed_app.rb
│ │ │ ├── hax.rb
│ │ │ └── homebrew.rb
│ │ ├── repository
│ │ │ └── git.rb
│ │ └── service
│ │ └── ghlaunchd.rb
│ └── type
│ └── repository.rb
├── manifests
│ ├── bin.pp
│ ├── config.pp
│ ├── development
│ │ └── project.pp
│ ├── development.pp
│ ├── environment.pp
│ ├── gemrc.pp
│ ├── janitor.pp
│ ├── osx_defaults.pp
│ ├── personal.pp
│ ├── profile.pp
│ ├── project.pp
│ ├── repo.pp
│ ├── security.pp
│ ├── sudoers.pp
│ └── zipped_widget.pp
├── script
│ ├── bootstrap
│ ├── cibuild
│ ├── lint
│ ├── specs
│ └── syntax
├── spec
│ ├── classes
│ │ ├── bin_spec.rb
│ │ └── environment_spec.rb
│ ├── fixtures
│ │ ├── Puppetfile
│ │ ├── Puppetfile.lock
│ │ ├── manifests
│ │ │ └── site.pp
│ │ └── modules
│ │ ├── boxen
│ │ │ ├── files -> ../../../../files
│ │ │ ├── lib -> ../../../../lib
│ │ │ ├── manifests -> ../../../../manifests
│ │ │ └── templates -> ../../../../templates
│ │ └── projects
│ │ └── manifests
│ │ └── test.pp
│ ├── spec_helper.rb
│ └── unit
│ └── puppet
│ └── type
│ └── repository_spec.rb
└── templates
├── config.sh.erb
├── env.sh.erb
└── gh_creds.sh.erb
Of note, we do not use things like rake to drive specs.
Instead, we bias towards simple, portable shell scripts that can be consumed
by other shell scripts.
Facts and variables
The core boxen module provides a number of variables to use.
In addition to these, you may always assume the presence of a boxen_user fact,
which is the local user running Boxen.
Other modules may provide their own globally available variables.
The recommendation is to put any variables that might be consumed by
multiple classes/manifests in a scoped config class
(e.g. modules/boxen/manifests/config.pp).