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Bolt + Vagrant

Steven Pritchard

26 April 2021

Vagrant is a great tool from Hashicorp (makers of tools such as Terraform and Vault) for prototyping infrastructure for applications. It will let you start up one or more VMs of any type with any arbitrary configuration.

bolt, vagrant, technical

Getting to Know the Puppet Development Kit (PDK) Part 3

Steven Pritchard

21 September 2020

This post is the last post in a three-part series on Puppet module development using the Puppet Development Kit (PDK), adapted from a presentation for the St. Louis Puppet Users Group.

In part 1, we covered getting started with PDK. In part 2, we talked about customizing PDK for your own use. It’s been a while since those parts were released. Originally part 3 was going to talk about annoyances, gotchas, and various other random oddities in PDK. Fortunately, there has been a ton of development work going on in PDK so most of that is in the distant past.

Now, for part 3, my final post on PDK (for now), we’re going to explore adding additional test coverage to converted modules.

puppet, pdk, rspec, testing, programming, technical

Vagrant + libvirt on CentOS 7

Steven Pritchard

21 August 2020

It is not obvious how to get Vagrant working with libvirt on CentOS 7. Here’s a guide:

vagrant, libvirt, kvm, CentOS, RHEL, technical

Getting to Know the Puppet Development Kit (PDK) Part 2

Steven Pritchard

14 December 2018

This post is the second post in a three-part series on Puppet module development using the Puppet Development Kit (PDK), adapted from a presentation for the St. Louis Puppet Users Group.

puppet, pdk, rspec, testing, programming, technical

Getting to Know the Puppet Development Kit (PDK)

Steven Pritchard

20 September 2018

This post is the first in a three-part series on Puppet module development using the Puppet Development Kit (PDK), adapted from a presentation for the St. Louis Puppet Users Group.

puppet, pdk, rspec, testing, programming, technical