Homebrew Puppet

A tap for Puppet macOS packages

• How do I install these packages?
  • Bolt
  • PE Client Tools
  • PDK
  • Puppet Agent
  • Wash
  • Relay
• Migrating from pre-tap installations
• Updating versions
  • Updating pe-client-tools

How do I install these packages?

brew install --cask puppetlabs/puppet/<package>

Bolt

To install Bolt with brew run

brew install --cask puppetlabs/puppet/puppet-bolt

This will install bolt to /opt/puppetlabs/bin/bolt, so to use bolt add /opt/puppetlabs/bin to your path

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/puppetlabs/bin

Installing Bolt 2.x

To install Bolt 2.x, run

brew tap puppetlabs/puppet
brew install puppet-bolt@2

PE Client Tools

To install the latest version of PE Client Tools run

brew install puppetlabs/puppet/pe-client-tools

To install the client tools for PE 2021, run

brew install puppetlabs/puppet/pe-client-tools

This will install the standalone commands from pe-client-tools to /opt/puppetlabs/bin so you'll need to have /opt/puppetlabs/bin in your path. All the commands are also available via a puppet face if you have the puppet-agent installed too.

PDK

To install PDK with brew:

brew install --cask puppetlabs/puppet/pdk

This will install PDK into /opt/puppetlabs/pdk and add an entry into /etc/paths.d to add PDK to your shell's PATH, however you may have to relaunch your terminal session before pdk can be found on your PATH.

If you use ZShell (zsh), you will have to take additional steps before pdk can be found on your PATH, see the PDK Troubleshooting docs to learn more.

Installing PDK 1.x

To install the latest PDK 1.x release, run

brew tap puppetlabs/puppet
brew install pdk@1

Puppet Agent

To install the very latest Puppet Agent with brew:

brew install puppetlabs/puppet/puppet-agent

Additionally we maintain versioned casks for each collection

• puppetlabs/puppet/puppet-agent-6
• puppetlabs/puppet/puppet-agent-7

Migrating from pre-tap installations

If you previously installed the PDK or Bolt from homebrew before this tap existed, you will see errors about the keg not existing or the cask already being installed.

To remedy that, simply add the puppetlabs/puppet tap after updating homebrew:

brew update
brew tap puppetlabs/puppet

After tapping, you can refer to the packages by their short name when interacting with them. For example:

brew upgrade pdk

Updating versions

When new versions of packages are shipped, you can use a Rake task to update the Cask to the latest version and SHAs

rake 'brew:cask[puppet-bolt]'

To update the versioned casks - for example puppet-agent-6 - include the collection as a 2nd argument

rake 'brew:cask[puppet-agent,6]'

You can test updated Cask files with

brew install Casks/puppet-bolt.rb --force

Updating pe-client-tools

Right now, pe-client-tools live in a location that can't be browsed so we needed a different rake task for it. There is a variable for the latest / default version of PE and a hash that defines the pe-client-tools version associated with each PE version.

To pull down a new version of the client tools you will first want to update the variables in the Rakefile and then run one of these commands:

# utilize the LATEST_PE variable
rake brew:pe_client_tools

# Update the individual PE collections
rake 'brew:pe_client_tools[2019.8]'

Internally, we can look for the available versions by poking around on http://builds.puppetlabs.lan/pe-client-tools/