If you are in need of help with Puppet, please contact the ITS Puppet Infrastructure team . Other quality options include: Puppet Google Groups , Puppet Community Slack Channel and Puppet Docs .

The following tools are recommendations for testing Puppet code and modules: Puppet Development Kit - https://puppet.com/docs/pdk/2.x/pdk.html metadata-json-lint, included in PDK, validates your module metadata file. puppet-lint, included in PDK,...

If you are new to Puppet Enterprise, you will first need a control repository to manage your environment. You can find a base template for a Puppet control repository here . Download that repository, rename the directory and alter the main branch to...

Puppet Enterprise instance’s node classification for environment is set up as ‘agent specified’, meaning your environment is set in the node’s puppet.conf file. For more info, see puppet.conf config file

Puppet Enterprise agent software supports a variety of operating systems. For more details, see PE Supported Operating Systems

Puppet Enterprise Version Support Policy ITS offers system administrators a Puppet Enterprise server instance to help manage nodes on-premise or in the Cloud. The PE version will align with Puppet’s LTS (Long Term Support) version. When a server...

Puppet code deployment can be done using the PE Client tools. The generic Puppet documentation is here . Alternatively, an auto-deploy script can run as a scheduled job as needed, please contact the ITS Puppet Infrastructure team for details at its-...

The Puppet Infrastructure team supports encryption of hiera yaml data via the hiera-eyaml ruby gem. If you want encryption of hiera yaml data, email the Puppet Infrastructure team its-puppet-infra@iowa.uiowa.edu and we will privately exchange keys...

Directions (including code snippet) to update a SQL Server account password can be found at: https://git.uiowa.edu/its-sql-server/sql-server-public/sql-server-public-resources/-/snippets/80

To request a new SQL Server database, please complete the following workflow form: https://workflow.uiowa.edu/form/its-sql-server-database-request