Puppet module developers use a .fixtures.yml file to describe which resources to use during testing.
This is a standalone implementation that improves puppetlabs_spec_helper by using better parallelization.
Add puppet_fixtures to your Gemfile:
gem 'puppet_fixtures'Now you can use bundle exec puppet-fixtures, for example:
$ bundle exec puppet-fixtures show
Parsing .fixtures.yml
Symlinks
/home/ekohl/dev/puppet-example/spec/fixtures/modules/example => /home/ekohl/dev/puppet-example
Repositories
stdlib => git+https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib
$ bundle exec puppet-fixtures install
I, [2025-05-08T13:14:33.084643 #79391] INFO -- : Creating symlink /home/ekohl/dev/puppet-example/spec/fixtures/modules/example => /home/ekohl/dev/puppet-example
Cloning into '/home/ekohl/dev/puppet-example/spec/fixtures/modules/stdlib'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 472, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (472/472), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (399/399), done.
remote: Total 472 (delta 99), reused 223 (delta 49), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (472/472), 289.86 KiB | 7.07 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (99/99), done.
$ bundle exec puppet-fixtures clean