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None of the CAT modules use it but it seems to be present in core modules and even the puppet_agent bolt module

ha yeah.. theres bound to be a ton of legacy stuff that has been left because it just works

This is going to need coordination between the different teams I think

I’d be looking at the ECOSYSTEM team to work out a plan (i think)

What is the upgrade path to beaker_puppet_helpers like?

if you only use modules that are defined in your metadata.json you don't need to change anything. We just bumped the `beaker` and `voxpupuli-acceptance` dependency in our Gemfiles

ah ok, so potentially an easy transition for the module owners then

if you install additional modules; we have a new method to install those: <https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-nginx/commit/cae3388db238b09374fabfe3d49d1fdf42882120>

I think out of ~190 modules we had to update ~30 with a 2-3 line patch

when you have a lot of modules in metadata.json you will have a significat performance boost with the new gem

because it doesn't use `puppet module install $module` for each module anymore

I also want to advocate for <https://github.com/voxpupuli/voxpupuli-acceptance> , which abstracts most of the beaker bits away and also makes the beaker 4-&gt;5 migration easy. We use that on all modules and at a few customers

i think this is a good choice for those that are using beaker internally

if anyone has questions about it, jsut redirect them to me