Puppet makes the PDK freely available on their website, and it has a release for each major operating system. It uses a fully isolated environment to provide Puppet binaries and RubyGems that make development much simpler. Tools included in the PDK, as of version 1.5.0, are as follows:

• Create new Puppet artifacts:
  • Modules
  • Classes
  • Defined types
  • Tasks
  • Puppet Ruby providers
• PDK validate—simple health checks:
  • Puppet parser validate (Puppet syntax)
  • Puppet lint (Puppet style)
  • Puppet metadata syntax
  • Puppet metadata style
  • RuboCop (Ruby style)
• PDK test unit (Puppet RSpec—unit testing)