Every Puppet metadata.json file should define the following keys:

• name
• version
• author
• license
• summary
• source
• dependencies

Noncompliant Code Example

{
  "name": "examplecorp-mymodule",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "summary": "A module for a thing",
  "source": "https://github.com/examplecorp/examplecorp-mymodule",
  "dependencies": [
    { "name": "puppetlabs/stdlib", "version_requirement": ">=3.2.0 <5.0.0" },
    { "name": "puppetlabs/firewall", "version_requirement": ">= 0.0.4" }
  ]
}

Compliant Solution

{
  "name": "examplecorp-mymodule",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "author": "Pat",
  "license": "Apache-2.0",
  "summary": "A module for a thing",
  "source": "https://github.com/examplecorp/examplecorp-mymodule",
  "dependencies": [
    { "name": "puppetlabs/stdlib", "version_requirement": ">=3.2.0 <5.0.0" },
    { "name": "puppetlabs/firewall", "version_requirement": ">= 0.0.4" }
  ]
}

See

• Puppet Labs documentation - Write a metadata.json File