Translating All The Things

Through the last months, I’ve written a lot about my work on the translator module for Puppet, which allows us to control mgmt with manifest code. One gimmick we had imagined early was the ability to support arbitrary manifests in mgmt, by invoking puppet resource for vertices that mgmt itself cannot handle. This works now, in principle, and it nicely demonstrates the amount of work that still needs doing. Shaving the yak Adding the generic pseudo-translator code to the module was relatively straight-forward. [Read More]