The subject of this presentation is Geppetto, a new project developing tools to simplify the process of authoring and consuming Puppet manifests and modules.

The project's foundation is a model of the Puppet DSL, along with parsers, validators, and formatters that translate between a generated manifest or module and its editable representation. Corresponding tooling will generate and test-validate manifests and modules directly from an editor, as well as streamline module publication/consumption to/from the Puppet Forge. Tooling will be packaged for both command line interaction (i.e., an enhanced version of the current Puppet Module Tool) and an IDE plug-in. Editors will provide syntax highlighting, content assistance, error tracing/debugging and similar capabilities, as appropriate.