Plugins Edit

This is a community curated list of plugins and tools for Puppet.

Tools and plugins are defined in the _data/tools directory of the community website repository Tools without plugins are going to be listed in the table under the Tools header. Tools with plugins will have their own header and table listing the plugins defined for that tool.

Tools

Useful tools when writing Puppet.

Tool Link	Description
Beaker	Accceptance testing harness.
Hiera Data Manager	Web interface for Hiera data
Hiera	A simple pluggable Hierarchical Database.
Jerakia	A policy-based pluggable and extendable data lookup system. A drop-in replacement for Hiera.
Metadata JSON Lint	A linter for your metadata.json file.
ModuleSync	Keep a set of modules synced to a common base template.
puppet-debugger	A interactive live debugger repl for the puppet language
Ghostbuster	Dead code detector for Puppet.
Puppet Lint	Check that your manifests conform to the style guide.
Retrospec	A tool that retrofits your module with all the necessary files and unit tests you forgot to create. Retrospec can also be used to easily generate some of the more advance puppet files like facts, functions, types, providers, and reports.
Puppet Strings	The next generation puppet documentation extraction and presentation tool.
Puppet Summary	Another web interface for Puppet reports
Puppet Catalog Diff	Tool to diff Puppet catalogs.
Puppet Check	A streamlined comprehensive set of checks for your entire Puppet code and data.
Puppetboard	A web interface to PuppetDB aiming to replace the reporting functionality of Puppet Dashboard.
Puppet Explorer	Puppet Explorer is a web application for PuppetDB that lets you explore your Puppet data.
PuppetLabs Spec Helper	Rake tasks and a standard spec_helper for running spec tests on puppet modules.
RSpec Puppet	RSpec tests for your Puppet manifests.

Beaker

Accceptance testing harness.

Plugin Link	Description
beaker-answers	For use for the Beaker acceptance testing tool.
beaker-digitalocean	Adds DigitalOcean as a hypervisor for Beaker.
beaker-hiera	Beaker DSL Extension Helpers!
beaker-librarian	Helpers to allow beaker-based tests to use librarian-puppet for module installation on VM hosts.
beaker-libvirt	Beaker hypervisor for libvirt/virsh.
beaker-puppet_install_helper	A beaker helper for installing PE, Foss/Gem puppet, or puppet-agent all in one beaker method.
beaker-rspec	Bridge between beaker and rspec.
beaker_spec_helper	A set of shared spec helpers specific for Beaker.
simp-beaker-helpers	Beaker helper methods to help scaffold SIMP acceptance tests.

Editor and IDE

Editor and IDE support for Puppet.

Plugin Link	Description
Atom plugin for Puppet	An Atom plugin for Puppet based on the Puppet Language Server
Intellij Puppet Support	This plugin provides Puppet language support for Intellij.
Spacemacs	A community-driven Emacs distribution. Comes with a Puppet layer that sets up flycheck and puppet-mode.
Visual Studio Code Extension for Puppet	This extension provides full Puppet Language support for Visual Studio Code, including syntax highlighting, inline linting, autocomplete, PDK integration and compile debugging
flycheck	On the fly Puppet syntax checking for GNU Emacs using puppet parser and puppet-lint.
puppet-mode	Edit Puppet 3 manifests with GNU Emacs 24.
vim-puppet	Plugin to make Vim more Puppet friendly.

Hiera

A simple pluggable Hierarchical Database.

Plugin Link v. 3	Plugin Link v. 5	Description
hiera-aws		AWS Backend.
hiera-cloudformation		AWS CloudFormation backend.
hiera-consul		Consul backend.
hiera-etcd		Etcd distributed configuration store backend.
hiera-eyaml	hiera-eyaml	Backend that provides per-value asymmetric encryption of sensitive data.
hiera-eyaml-gpg		GPG encryption backend for the hiera-eyaml module.
hiera-file		File backend.
hiera-foreman		Backend that queries the Foreman for data.
hiera-gpg		GPG Backend.
hiera-http		HTTP Backend.
hiera-json		JSON Backend.
hiera-ldap		LDAP Backend.
hiera-mysql		MySQL Backend.
hiera-psql		PostgreSQL backend.
hiera-redis	hiera_redis	A Redis backend.
hiera-vault	hiera_vault	Backend to retrieve secrets from Hashicorp's Vault.

Jerakia

A policy-based pluggable and extendable data lookup system. A drop-in replacement for Hiera.

Plugin Link	Description
puppet-jerakia	A Puppet module for managing Jerakia.

Miscellaneous

Plugins/libraries for tools that don’t fit anywhere else.

Plugin Link	Description
guard-puppet-lint	As Puppet manifest files change, run puppet-lint on them.
node-puppetdbquery	A JavaScript version of the puppetdbquery module for puppet.
puppet-ghostbuster	Dead code detector for Puppet.
pypuppetdb	Python library for working with the PuppetDB API

ModuleSync

Keep a set of modules synced to a common base template.

Plugin Link	Description
Community configs	The templates used by the voxpupuli modules
OpenStack configs	The templates used by the OpenStack Puppet Modules.
PuppetLabs' configs	The templates used by most of PuppetLabs' supported modules.

Puppet Lint

Check that your manifests conform to the style guide.

Plugin Link	Description
absolute_classname	Check for relative class name inclusions.
absolute_template	Check if paths to the template() function are relative.
alias	Check for alias parameters in resources.
appends	Check that the appends operator (+=) is not used (removed in Puppet 4.0.0).
classes_and_types_beginning_with_digits	Check for types and class names that begin with digits.
duplicate_class_parameters	Check that class parameter names are unique.
empty_string	Check for variables assigned to the empty string (deprecated, see params_empty_string).
empty_trailing_lines	Check for trailing empty lines.
file_ensure	Check the ensure attribute on file resources.
file_source_rights	Check file rights when providing a source.
fileserver	Check if puppet:/// is used instead of file().
global_resource	Check that your manifests have no global resources.
leading_zero	Check for unquoted numbers with leading zero.
legacy_facts	Check for legacy facts that have been replaced with new structured facts.
numeric_variable	Check that your variables are not numeric.
package_ensure	Check the ensure attribute on package resources.
param_docs	Check that validates all parameters are documented.
params_empty_string	Check for class parameters with string datatype assigned to the empty string.
resource_outside_class	Check if resources exist outside of a class or defined type.
resource_reference_outside_class	Check for references which are declared outside of the class where the reference is used.
resource_reference_syntax	Checks that the reference syntax follows Puppet 4 style.
roles_and_profiles	Check that a node definition declares only a role, a role class does not have any param and only declares profiles, and a profiles class can declare anything but a role.
security	Checks puppet manifests for security related problems.
spaceship_operator_without_tag	Check that spaceship operator is called with a tag.
strict_indent	Check that your manifests follow a strict indentation pattern.
template_file_extension	Check that all template and epp functions filenames end correctly.
top_scope_facts	Check for top scope facts that should use the facts hash instead.
trailing_comma	Check for missing trailing commas.
trailing_newline	Check that your manifest files end with newlines.
undef_in_function	Check for undef in function calls.
unquoted_string	Check that selectors and case statements cases are quoted.
usascii_format	Check that manifest files contain only US ASCII.
variable_contains_upcase	Check that your variables are all lower case.
version_comparison	Check for versions compared as numbers.
vim_modeline	Check for vim comment (modeline) as the last line in a manifest.
world_writable_files	Check that file resources are not world writable.

Puppet Catalog Diff

Tool to diff Puppet catalogs.

Plugin Link	Description
puppet-catalog-diff-viewer	A viewer for the puppet-catalog-diff tool.

R10k

Puppet environment and module deployment.

Plugin Link	Description
G10k	r10k fork in Go.
Generate Puppetfile	Convert dependencies into a Puppetfile.
Puppetfile updater	Keep your Puppetfile up-to-date.
R10k dashboard	R10k's friendly companion.
R10k diff	See differences in your Puppetfile between different environments.
Ra10ke	Rake tasks related to R10K and Puppetfile
Reaktor	Reaktor is a modular post-receive hook designed to work with r10k

RSpec Puppet

RSpec tests for your Puppet manifests.

Plugin Link	Description
rspec-hiera-puppet	Hiera fixtures for puppet-rspec tests.
rspec-puppet-augeas	RSpec tests for Augeas resources inside Puppet manifests.
rspec-puppet-facts	Simplify your unit tests by looping on every supported Operating System and populating facts.
rspec-puppet-utils	Helper classes for mock/stub functions, templates and hierdata.
simp-rspec-puppet-facts	Shim that injects SIMP-related facts into rspec-puppet-facts.