Major Changes, Useful Tools, and References

This chapter will set out the major changes that have taken place since Puppet 5 up to the current versions, Puppet 6.28 and 7.21. This is viewed as the modern era of Puppet, where in the previous chapter, the change of focus was highlighted in the history of Puppet. This summary of changes will also cover some redundant patterns and approaches that might still be seen from earlier versions of Puppet, as these can still be visible in code and various sources. The chapter will then go on to discuss tooling to create a productive developer environment for Puppet, which will be used for the lab environment throughout this book. The aim will be to give an opinionated view of how to develop Puppet code and tooling that can assist with this. These tools can be installed in an environment of the readers’ choice. The lab environment itself will then be demonstrated by standing up a simple setup and logging in. The chapter will finish by looking...