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Puppet formatting functions to transform text into rich text

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Version information

  • 1.1.1 (latest)
  • 1.1.0
  • 1.0.0
  • 0.1.1
  • 0.1.1-rc0 (deleted)
released Feb 15th 2024
This version is compatible with:
  • Puppet Enterprise 2023.5.x, 2023.4.x, 2023.3.x, 2023.2.x, 2023.1.x, 2023.0.x, 2021.7.x, 2021.6.x, 2021.5.x, 2021.4.x, 2021.3.x, 2021.2.x, 2021.1.x, 2021.0.x
  • Puppet >= 7.0.0 < 9.0.0
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Start using this module

  • r10k or Code Manager
  • Bolt
  • Manual installation
  • Direct download

Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'puppet-format', '1.1.1'
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Add this module to your Bolt project:

bolt module add puppet-format
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Manually install this module globally with Puppet module tool:

puppet module install puppet-format --version 1.1.1

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puppet/format — version 1.1.1 Feb 15th 2024

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This module includes puppet functions to transform your boring, old and worn looking ascii characters into beautiful looking masterpieces.

Table of Contents

  1. Description
  2. Setup - The basics of getting started with format
  3. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
  4. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.
  5. Development - Guide for contributing to the module

Description

With this module you can produce amazing looking tables, colorized strings and others transformations for output to the terminal screen. While this module is mainly for bolt plans it could be used in puppet code anywhere.

Setup

What format affects

This module includes functions and datatypes only.

Setup Requirements

This module requires the terminal-table gem. It's a direct dependency for bolt, so open source users don't need to install additional gems. For PE users that want to use the function, they need to install terminal-table for the orchestrator:

GEM_PATH=/opt/puppetlabs/server/apps/bolt-server/lib/ruby GEM_HOME=/opt/puppetlabs/server/apps/bolt-server/lib/ruby /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/gem install terminal-table --no-document

Usage

This module only contains functions to format and transform data. It will not output anything to stdout and only return formatted data ready to be sent to stdout or stderr.

Functions

  • format::colorize("string", red) # options include red, green, yellow, fatal, warning, good.
  • format::table([['one', 1], ['two', 2]])

The print_table function wraps the Terminal-Table ruby gem in a function and tries to provide the same API. You can create a table in two ways.

  • by passing a TableRows type (Array of Arrays)
  • by passing a TerminalTable type (Hash of various keys)

Example:

# puppet code
format::table({title => 'GPU list', head => ['Name', 'QTY'],
               rows => [['GTX 1070', 5], ['GTX 2080 ti', 1]],
               style => {width => 60 }
            })

Which produces a table like:

+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
|                         GPU list                         |
+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
| Name                        | QTY                        |
+-----------------------------+----------------------------+
| GTX 1070                    | 5                          |
| GTX 2080 ti                 | 1                          |
+-----------------------------+----------------------------+

Or with colors