How To Install puppet-beaker on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install puppet-beaker on Debian 11.
What is puppet-beaker
puppet-beaker is:
Test harness focused on acceptance testing via interactions between multiple (virtual) machines. It provides platform abstraction between different Systems Under Test (SUTs), and it can also be used as a virtual machine provisioner - setting up machines, running any commands on those machines, and then exiting.
Beaker runs tests written in Ruby, and provides additional Domain-Specific Language (DSL) methods. This gives you access to all standard Ruby along with acceptance testing specific commands.
There are three methods to install puppet-beaker on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install puppet-beaker Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install puppet-beaker using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install puppet-beaker
Install puppet-beaker Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install puppet-beaker using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install puppet-beaker
Install puppet-beaker Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install puppet-beaker using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install puppet-beaker
How To Uninstall puppet-beaker on Debian 11
To uninstall only the puppet-beaker package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove puppet-beaker
Uninstall puppet-beaker And Its Dependencies
To uninstall puppet-beaker and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove puppet-beaker
Remove puppet-beaker Configurations and Data
To remove puppet-beaker configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge puppet-beaker
Remove puppet-beaker configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove puppet-beaker configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge puppet-beaker
Dependencies
puppet-beaker have the following dependencies:
- ruby
- ruby-beaker-hostgenerator
- ruby-hocon
- ruby-in-parallel
- ruby-minitar
- ruby-minitest
- ruby-net-scp
- ruby-open-uri-redirections
- ruby-pry-byebug
- ruby-rsync
- ruby-thor
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install puppet-beaker package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
