Yesterday, I tackled upgrading Linux Puppet Enterprise agents with puppet_agent and said I would give Windows agents a try next. It’s simultaneously extremely easy and really difficult to accomplish this! On the manifest side, it’s as simple as including the class in a profile for Windows agents. On the rspec side, we need to add a lot of custom facts and even mock up some functions. I also encountered an issue with version 1.3.1 that broke my rspec tests. Version 1.3.2 was released in February 2017 to address that.

As usual, let’s start with the rspec test updates. Here’s the starting tests and manifest for an empty profile::base::windows, where nothing is really managed in the base profile yet.

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