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Awesome Puppet

A curated list of amazingly awesome puppet resources inspired by @bayandin's awesome-awesomeness.

Your pull requests are very welcome! Let's make this the awesomest resource for Puppet!

IDEs and Editors for development

Atom - The hackable editor by GitHub
- Puppet plugin - The Puppet plugin for Atom
Sublime - Non-FOSS text editor for MacOS X
- SublimePuppet - Puppet syntax for Sublime
- SublimeLinter Puppet - Sublime Linter plugin for Puppet
Textmate - FOSS text editor for MacOS X
- Puppet Bundle - Textmate bundle for Puppet
RubyMine - Code editor for Windows/Mac/Linux (not free or FOSS)
- Puppet language support plugin - also compatible with other editors
VSCode
- Puppet plugin - Puppet syntax, code snippets, PDK integration, etc.
Vim - the ubiquitous text editor
- vim-puppet - provides syntax highlighting and other plugins

Libraries for generating project documentation

HereDoc - HereDoc support for Puppet
puppet-strings - Current generation documentation from Puppet
- puppetlabs/ntp - reference module for Strings support

Libraries for module management

Librarian Puppet - Flexible module management for your puppet repository
Puppet Blacksmith - Ruby Gem with several Puppet Module utilities used for easily publishing modules to the forge
Hiera-Regex - Regex backend for Hiera data.
Modulesync - Synchronize consistent settings across modules in a user or organization namespace (not PDK compatible).
- modulesync_config reference - Reference modulesync configuration repo.
pdksync - Use PDK to synchronize multiple module repositories.

Libraries for building and task running

Testing frameworks

Rspec Puppet RSpec tests for your Puppet Manifests
- rspec-puppet.com - Official docs
Beaker Puppet acceptance testing harness
Kitchen
Kitchen Puppet
Using kitchen with puppet
Onceover Repository testing

Puppet Bolt A Ruby command-line tool for executing commands, scripts, and tasks on remote systems using SSH and WinRM. Great for 'ad hoc' task execution. Bolt tasks can be written in any scripting/programming language (Also known as puppet tasks).
Puppet Development Kit A toolkit for puppet module developers
puppet-retrospec - Generates puppet rspec test code based on the current code inside your module.
puppet-ghostbuster - Finds dead code by displaying unused classes, defined resources, template and files. Requires puppetdb 3+.
puppet-debugger - A interactive live debugger and REPL for the puppet language
puppet-function-updater - A tool that helps port legacy Puppet functions to the modern Ruby API.

Reference implementations

puppetlabs/control-repo - Official reference architecture from Puppet, based on Even Besterer Practices.
PSICK A reusable Puppet control repository using many of what are considered best practices.
puppetlabs-education/classroom-control-vf - A good reference implementation of the control repository, maintained by Puppet's Education group.
puppetinabox/controlrepo - Rob Nelson's control repository for his PuppetInABox project.

Resources for new puppet users

Puppet Learning VM A simple VM that gives you a set of challenges to learn puppet by doing.
Puppet Cookbook, a collection of task oriented solutions in Puppet.
YAML for Puppet users? - A combination YAML primer and Guide to Puppet/YAML idiosyncracies.
Introduction to Testing Puppet Modules (and video) by David Schmitt

Active code references representing various design patterns and usage

puppetlabs/httpd - Beaker tests in Travis.
Resource API - Examples of Types & Providers.
puppetlabs/java's java_version - Writing a custom fact in ruby.
puppetinabox puppet_role fact and test - Testing of a custom fact.
puppetlabs/apache's defined type apache::vhost - Include a dependency (apache) during unit testing of another resource (apache::vhost).
puppetlabs/apache - Testing an ERB template's resulting content

Other amazingly awesome lists can be found in the awesome-awesomeness list.

Your contributions are always welcome!