but someone should install all those packages.. and I’d personally prefer puppet to do it not I 🙂

So server is NOT reading the yaml file. That's the issue.

Could you try to add

file { '<some_tmp_dir>/test.txt':
  content => $facts.get('software').to_json,
}

in the very beginning of the class above?

I’m fine with opensource puppet usually

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Trying to cleanup a few of my manifests, How should this look?

It works as-is but I'm having difficulty finding an explanation of the warnings that the puppet extension is flagging.

variable not enclosed in {}Puppet(variables_not_enclosed) , what would a good example of how this SHOULD look be?

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When using just a variable, it doesn't need to be quoted. So, it should look like:

sudo::conf { $user_name:

it’ll probably complain about class not being in its own file too

Unless you're intentionally trying to stringify something that's not a string, like an integer. Then it'd be:

sudo::conf { "${user_name}":

But that's unnecessary in this case, I assume, since user name is a string.

Unless you're intentionally trying to stringify something that's not a string, like an integer. Then it'd be:

sudo::conf { "${user_name}":

But that's unnecessary in this case, I assume, since user name is a string.

For the content, that's getting pulled from hiera, does it prefer the fully qualified hiera value?

don’t think it works any other way

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As per puppet docs I have changed gems[‘puppet-util-windows-service’]=[‘<=0.8.8’,require:false]

But still its throwing the error..can you help me if you are aware of this in your infra

It would be a great help if you check if I have missed something

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Hello , I am trying to understand Deferred functions and see how I can implement it , however I wanted to know how does it handle eyaml decryption? Could someone please explain? Thanks in advance

To install volt - https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-vault

The deferred lookup support: https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-vault_lookup

And to use as a hiera backend: https://github.com/petems/petems-hiera_vault

To install vault - https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-vault

A better approach would be to use vault for secrets.

I have been using - https://github.com/theforeman/puppet-foreman/blob/master/lib/puppet/parser/functions/foreman.rb to lookup for host list from foreman - would I be able to use deferred function with this ? Example :-

$host_lookup = "facts.mynamespace::namespace = test and facts.mynamespace::classes::host = true and facts.imynamespace::dc != ${trusted['extensions']['mynamespace_dc']}" # lint:ignore:140chars
    $host_list = foreman('hosts', $host_lookup, ['certname'])

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I have been using - https://github.com/theforeman/puppet-foreman/blob/master/lib/puppet/parser/functions/foreman.rb to lookup for host list from foreman - would I be able to use deferred function with this ? Example :-

$host_lookup = "facts.mynamespace::namespace = test and facts.mynamespace::classes::host = true and facts.imynamespace::dc != ${trusted['extensions']['mynamespace_dc']}" # lint:ignore:140chars
    $host_list = foreman('hosts', $host_lookup, ['certname'])

For those that are interested, the discussion about Advents of Code has a lot of snippets, especially those from @helindbe, that can be useful as starting point for bigger things. https://github.com/puppetlabs/community/discussions/28