I love the simplicity of using Visual Studio Code for Ruby development, but my true love still lies with Neovim for development. The complexity of configuring Vim/Neovim has kept me away from the environment for some time, but now with the advent of coc.vim and solargraph, setting up a ruby development environment with the power of VS Code has become extremely simple. Pre-requisites A few things to note before we get started.

There’s a lot of fanfare for text editors like Visual Studio Code and Atom for general development these days while those that utilize Vim, Neovim, and Emacs seem to be forgotten. Thankfully, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, Microsoft has created a new standard for making language plugins for IDEs and text editors. The Language Server Protocol standard has made it simple to create cross-platform and cross-editor language plugins, as long as the IDE or editor knows how to handle the Language Server.

I’m a huge fan of gaming and my preferred PC Operating System family is Linux, so naturally, I would love to see Linux based OSes continue to be supported long into the future of gaming. Unfortunately, there are several hurdles to Linux becoming mainstream for gaming and one of them, unfortunately is the Linux Community. The Problem The Linux community is an absolutely awesome community when taken as a whole. We try to be helpful to newcomers, do whatever we can to promote our platform in constructive and respectful ways, and even will “foot the bill” to get things working for our users if necessary.

Setting up Hiera on Puppet Server It’s been a while due to, well, life. As promised, this blog will conclude the Configuring Puppet Server series by setting up Hiera. If you need to get caught up, please see Part 1 and Part 2 What is Hiera? Hiera is a key/value lookup tool for configuration data. There are 3 principal versions of Hiera used in modern Puppet: Hiera 3 Hiera 4 Hiera 5 If you’d like more information about the difference between the three versions, you can find it in the Hiera 5 Docs.

Setting up r10k Last time, we walked through setting up Puppet Server and PuppetDB using Puppet. This time, we will be adding r10k to the mix. What is r10k? r10k is a tool created by Puppet, Inc to manage configuration environments and code deployments to the Puppet Master. It is extremely simple to initially setup and get working, but also a bit difficult to master. I won’t be going over the basic install and setup of r10k today, you can find that in the r10k documentation.

So, I was planning on doing a blog post on setting up Puppet Server and PuppetDB on separate servers, with r10k and Hiera. The blog got a bit too large, so I decided to split it up into a three-part blog series. I should probably note that this series is targeted towards users of Puppet Open Source and there is an expectation the readers are somewhat familiar with the Bash CLI and basic Linux Admin.

Who am I? My name is David Hollinger. I’m a fan of FOSS, Linux, Ruby, Puppet, DevOps, and just Technology in general. If you would like to know more about me, head over to the About page or feel free to send me an email at david.hollinger@moduletux.com or reach out to me on Twitter. What is ModuleTux? Over the last seven years, I’ve been given the opportunity to be involved in the Technology business/community and I want to give back what I’ve learned in hopes that someone else can learn from my knowledge, experiences, and mistakes (and potentially go on to share as well).