Puppet Validation Tools

To validate Puppet manifests, use the following tools

1. Puppet

2. Puppet Lint

   1. Validates advanced syntax, does not check logic or resource ordering!!

   2. Install:

   3. gem install puppet-lint

   4. Usage - check all PP files for syntax:

   5. puppet-lint /manifests/*

   6. default.pp - WARNING: class not documented on line 1

   7. default.pp - WARNING: line has more than 80 characters on line 3

   8. gitlab.pp - WARNING: class not documented on line 1

   9. jenkins_master.pp - WARNING: line has more than 80 characters on line 5

   10. jenkins_master.pp - WARNING: line has more than 80 characters on line 7

   11. jenkins_slave.pp - WARNING: line has more than 80 characters on line 5

   12. jenkins_slave.pp - WARNING: line has more than 80 characters on line 7

   13. labusers.pp - WARNING: class not documented on line 1

   14. lims_zrest_zfe.pp - WARNING: line has more than 80 characters on line 7

   15. lims_zwork_standalone.pp - WARNING: line has more than 80 characters on line 8

   16. To disable Documenation warning (this warns to include comment above "class" declaration)

   17. puppet-lint --no-documentation-check *

   18. To suppress 80 char line limit check

   19. puppet-lint --no-80chars-check manifest.pp

3. Puppet Parser

• 1. validates basic syntax, does not check logic or resource ordering!!

  2. Usage:

  3. puppet parser validate *.pp