Puppet module anti patterns
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This document discusses common antipatterns when creating Puppet modules and provides recommendations to address them. It identifies issues like failing to ensure packages are updated, lacking parameter validation, making repository management non-optional, lack of idempotency and deprecation warnings. It suggests using custom rules in Puppet-lint to validate modules and catch these antipatterns.
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Puppet module anti patterns
- 2. ENSURE LATEST FOR PACKAGES Lock stuff down
- 3. NO PARAMETER VALIDATION STDLib is there for a reason
- 4. NON-OPTIONAL REPO MANAGEMENT Yum/Apt repos should be optional
- 5. LACK OF IDEMPOTENCY D.R.Y
- 6. LACK OF DEPRECATION/ WARNINGS For removed or changed features
- 7. SOLUTIONS? CUSTOM RULES IN PUPPET-LINT...MAYBE