Technical requirements

For this chapter, you will need to provision a Puppet server standard architecture with a Windows client and a Linux client by downloading the params.json file from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Puppet-8-for-DevOps-Engineers/blob/main/ch04/params.json and then using the following command from your pecdm directory:

bolt --verbose plan run pecdm::provision –params @params.json

In various sections of this chapter, examples will be given of using the notify function, which outputs to the agent command line. These examples can just be run in the local development environment by putting all the code into a manifest file – for example, example.pp – and then running puppet apply example.pp.

Alternatively, any variables that are required can be set using the environment variable format of FACTER_variable_name and running puppet apply –e '<example_code>'. To run one of the substring examples, you can run the following...