Intro

Some things are very nice to have when developing Puppet code. Most of them are not Puppet specific, but very helpful.

Bash git prompt

https://github.com/magicmonty/bash-git-prompt

VIM plugins

I’m using several:

• syntastic
• tabular
• tlib_vim
• vim-addon-mw-utils
• vim-puppet
• vim-snipmate
• vim-snippets

Download them all at once: here. (Extract in homedir if you don’t care about overwriting .vim*)

Screenrc

My .screenrc opens a few screens into different directories. Obviously the name of the developer should be adapted… 🙂

hardstatus alwayslastline
hardstatus string '%{= kG}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= %{= kw}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}%n*%f%t%?(%u)%?%{r})%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{B} %m-%d %{W}%c %{g}]'

chdir /etc/puppet/dev/ger
screen -t manifests
chdir /etc/puppet/dev/ger/modules/role
screen -t roles
chdir /etc/puppet/hieradata
screen -t hiera

Script to update hiera-data repos

#!/bin/bash

for i in /etc/puppet/hieradata/*
do
        read -p "Do you want to update environment $i?" -n1 -r
        echo

        if [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]
        then
              cd $i
              git pull origin master
        fi
done