Puppet Augeas Shells Provider

I’ve recently had the need to create a handful of small file based providers in puppet and while trundling uphill against the ParsedFile provider I decided to have a look at how custom providers are written using the Puppet augeas providers. My sample provider is a simple one, it manages entries in /etc/shells and was quite quick to write. While augeasproviders assumes you know how Puppet types and providers are structured it does present a very standardised way of using the augeas library in order to manipulate your target.