Write Puppet code

Each of us has a favorite tool for code writing. It may change according to the language we are using, our familiarity with the software or a preference of the moment.

Whatever tool we use, it should make our experience as smooth, productive, and enjoyable as possible.

I am a Vim guy, without being a guru. Having a system admin background, grown with bread and shell, I am comfortable with the possibility of using the same tool, wherever I am, on the local terminal or the remote SSH session: more or less we can expect to find Vim on any system under our keyboard.

A developer, I guess, may feel more comfortable with a tool that runs on his computer and can greatly enhance the writing experience, with syntax checks, cross references, and all the power of an IDE.

For this, there is Geppetto, a full-featured IDE, based on Eclipse and dedicated to Puppet code. Other popular editors also have Puppet plugins that can be quite useful.

The good news is that all of them can make life more...