Writing and testing a module using the PDK

The PDK was introduced to ease the effort required to consistently create the directories and files for modules and to also group some commonly used testing and validation tooling. We will be reviewing PDK version 2.7.1, the latest available at the time of writing. PDK installs its own Ruby gems and environment to provide the following tools:

Ruby Gem Name	Ruby Gem Purpose	Project Page
metadata-json-lint	Validates the syntax and lints metadata.json to style guidelines	https://github.com/voxpupuli/metadata-json-lint
pdk	Generates modules and module content with automated testing commands	https://github.com/puppetlabs/pdk
puppet-lint	Lints Puppet...