A blank module for Puppet 5.x

This module currently installs and configures the following software and services:

• nothing

This is a blank class that does nothing

This is an example parameter entry

Puppet 5.x allows the use of an in-module data store in the data directory. Internal package variables can be set there without exposing them as paramters. These can be over-ridden in the Hiera data store on the host, on a Puppet server, or in a Puppet environment.

This module was based on puppet5-blank, a Puppet 5.x module template created by Aethylred

This module uses the skeleton puppet5-blank, a Puppet 5.x module template created by Aethylred. Usage is simple, follow the Unblank checklist in the [To Do](#To Do) list, which pretty much consists of replacing Author with your name and blank with your module name.

The puppet5-blank template includes configuration for:

• Example class blank::oscheck for checking Puppet module OS compatibility
• Travis-CI
  • rspec-puppet
    • Configured with .rspec file
  • rspec-puppet-facts to provide a all OS facts for testing
  • Spec tests
  • Code checks
    • Puppet syntax check
    • Puppet style checks using puppet-lint
    • Puppet module metadata checks using metadata-json-lint
    • Ruby syntax check
    • validate YAML
      • Check hiera.yaml
      • Check travis.yml
      • Check hiera\ directory
    • Check for Windows line endings (because Aethylred uses Windows for $work)
• Git configuration
  • Set up .gitignore for Puppet module development
  • Set up .gitattributes for Puppet module development
    • Line endings rules
    • Linguist definitions for GitHub/GitLab programming language analysis
• Gemnasium to check Ruby Gem health
• Coveralls to report testing coverage
• Beaker acceptance testing (Work in Progress)
• Sample README.md
• Starting CHANGELOG.md
• Includes Apache 2.0 License
• Badges!

The following things are still to be done:

• Edit metadata.json
• Edit .fixtures
• Edit manifests/init.pp
• Edit manifests/oscheck.pp
• Edit and rename spec/classes/blank_spec.rb
• Edit and rename spec/classes/blank_oscheck_spec.rb
• Edit README.md. Please leave the Attributions for puppet5-blank, otherwise rework it as best suits your project.
• DO THESE LAST
  • Delete .git
  • Reinitialise the project with git init
  • Do an initial commit
  • Tag as version 0.1.0
  • Set a remote repository
  • Push to a git repository
  • Congratulations, you just shipped a module that does nothing, but has a syntax check, lint check, and test environment.

• Add a Code of Conduct
• Add a CONTRIBUTING.md contribution guide
• Fix badges in README.md
  • Fix URI in Travis-CI badge
  • Fix URI in Coveralls badge
  • Fix Puppetforge URIs in Puppetforge badges
• Write code
• Commit changes
• Push to a repository