diff --git a/configs/projects/_shared-pe-installer-runtime.rb b/configs/projects/_shared-pe-installer-runtime.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fec319e75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/configs/projects/_shared-pe-installer-runtime.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,157 @@
+platform = proj.get_platform
+proj.version_from_git
+proj.generate_archives true
+proj.generate_packages false
+
+proj.description "The PE Installer runtime contains third-party components needed for PE Installer standalone packaging"
+proj.license "See components"
+proj.vendor "Puppet, Inc.  <info@puppet.com>"
+proj.homepage "https://puppet.com"
+proj.identifier "com.puppetlabs"
+
+# Used in component configurations to conditionally include dependencies
+proj.setting(:runtime_project, 'pe-installer')
+
+proj.setting(:prefix, "/opt/puppetlabs/installer")
+proj.setting(:ruby_dir, proj.prefix)
+proj.setting(:bindir, File.join(proj.prefix, 'bin'))
+proj.setting(:ruby_bindir, proj.bindir)
+proj.setting(:libdir, File.join(proj.prefix, 'lib'))
+proj.setting(:includedir, File.join(proj.prefix, "include"))
+proj.setting(:datadir, File.join(proj.prefix, "share"))
+proj.setting(:mandir, File.join(proj.datadir, "man"))
+
+proj.setting(:host_ruby, File.join(proj.ruby_bindir, "ruby"))
+proj.setting(:host_gem, File.join(proj.ruby_bindir, "gem"))
+
+ruby_base_version = proj.ruby_version.gsub(/(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)/, '\1.\2.0')
+proj.setting(:gem_home, File.join(proj.libdir, 'ruby', 'gems', ruby_base_version))
+proj.setting(:gem_install, "#{proj.host_gem} install --no-document --local --bindir=#{proj.ruby_bindir}")
+
+proj.setting(:artifactory_url, "https://artifactory.delivery.puppetlabs.net/artifactory")
+proj.setting(:buildsources_url, "#{proj.artifactory_url}/generic/buildsources")
+
+# Define default CFLAGS and LDFLAGS for most platforms, and then
+# tweak or adjust them as needed.
+proj.setting(:cppflags, "-I#{proj.includedir} -I/opt/pl-build-tools/include")
+proj.setting(:cflags, "#{proj.cppflags}")
+proj.setting(:ldflags, "-L#{proj.libdir} -L/opt/pl-build-tools/lib -Wl,-rpath=#{proj.libdir}")
+
+# These flags are applied in addition to the defaults in configs/component/openssl.rb.
+proj.setting(:openssl_extra_configure_flags, [
+  'no-dtls',
+  'no-dtls1',
+  'no-idea',
+  'no-seed',
+  'no-weak-ssl-ciphers',
+  '-DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS',
+])
+
+proj.setting(:augeas_version, '1.14.1')
+
+########
+# Load shared agent components
+# When we want to run Bolt from the pe-installer package, we want our
+# puppet to have the same gems as the default puppet agent install.
+########
+instance_eval File.read('configs/projects/_shared-agent-components.rb')
+
+# pl-build-tools
+proj.component 'runtime-pe-installer'
+
+# Below are copied from pe-bolt-server, since we're shipping much the same thing.
+# Deps in _shared-agent-components are removed, and we do not include the
+# agent gem.
+
+# R10k dependencies
+proj.component('rubygem-gettext-setup')
+
+# hiera-eyaml and its dependencies
+proj.component('rubygem-highline')
+proj.component('rubygem-optimist')
+proj.component('rubygem-hiera-eyaml')
+
+# faraday and its dependencies
+proj.component('rubygem-faraday')
+proj.component('rubygem-faraday-em_http')
+proj.component('rubygem-faraday-em_synchrony')
+proj.component('rubygem-faraday-excon')
+proj.component('rubygem-faraday-httpclient')
+proj.component('rubygem-faraday-multipart')
+proj.component('rubygem-faraday-net_http')
+proj.component('rubygem-faraday-net_http_persistent')
+proj.component('rubygem-faraday-patron')
+proj.component('rubygem-faraday-rack')
+proj.component('rubygem-faraday-retry')
+proj.component('rubygem-faraday_middleware')
+proj.component('rubygem-ruby2_keywords')
+
+# Core dependencies
+proj.component('rubygem-addressable')
+proj.component('rubygem-aws-eventstream')
+proj.component('rubygem-aws-partitions')
+proj.component('rubygem-aws-sdk-core')
+proj.component('rubygem-aws-sdk-ec2')
+proj.component('rubygem-aws-sigv4')
+proj.component('rubygem-bcrypt_pbkdf')
+proj.component('rubygem-bindata')
+proj.component('rubygem-builder')
+proj.component('rubygem-CFPropertyList')
+proj.component('rubygem-colored2')
+proj.component('rubygem-concurrent-ruby')
+proj.component('rubygem-connection_pool')
+proj.component('rubygem-cri')
+proj.component('rubygem-ed25519')
+proj.component('rubygem-erubi')
+proj.component('rubygem-facter')
+proj.component('rubygem-ffi')
+proj.component('rubygem-gssapi')
+proj.component('rubygem-gyoku')
+proj.component('rubygem-hiera')
+proj.component('rubygem-httpclient')
+proj.component('rubygem-jmespath')
+proj.component('rubygem-jwt')
+proj.component('rubygem-little-plugger')
+proj.component('rubygem-log4r')
+proj.component('rubygem-logging')
+proj.component('rubygem-minitar')
+proj.component('rubygem-molinillo')
+proj.component('rubygem-multi_json')
+proj.component('rubygem-multipart-post')
+proj.component('rubygem-net-http-persistent')
+proj.component('rubygem-net-scp')
+proj.component('rubygem-net-ssh-krb')
+proj.component('rubygem-nori')
+proj.component('rubygem-rubyntlm')
+proj.component('rubygem-orchestrator_client')
+proj.component('rubygem-public_suffix')
+proj.component('rubygem-paint')
+proj.component('rubygem-puppet')
+proj.component('rubygem-puppet_forge')
+proj.component('rubygem-puppet-resource_api')
+proj.component('rubygem-puppet-strings')
+proj.component('rubygem-puppetfile-resolver')
+proj.component('rubygem-r10k')
+proj.component('rubygem-rgen')
+proj.component('rubygem-rubyntlm')
+proj.component('rubygem-ruby_smb')
+proj.component('rubygem-rubyzip')
+proj.component('rubygem-scanf')
+proj.component('rubygem-terminal-table')
+proj.component('rubygem-thor')
+proj.component('rubygem-unicode-display_width')
+proj.component('rubygem-webrick')
+proj.component('rubygem-yard')
+
+# Core Windows dependencies
+proj.component('rubygem-windows_error')
+proj.component('rubygem-winrm')
+proj.component('rubygem-winrm-fs')
+
+# What to include in package?
+proj.directory proj.prefix
+
+# Export the settings for the current project and platform as yaml during builds
+proj.publish_yaml_settings
+
+proj.timeout 7200 if platform.is_windows?
diff --git a/configs/projects/pe-installer-runtime-2021.7.x.rb b/configs/projects/pe-installer-runtime-2021.7.x.rb
index 4cfa53466..04fe59f22 100644
--- a/configs/projects/pe-installer-runtime-2021.7.x.rb
+++ b/configs/projects/pe-installer-runtime-2021.7.x.rb
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 project 'pe-installer-runtime-2021.7.x' do |proj|
-  # Used in component configurations to conditionally include dependencies
-  proj.setting(:runtime_project, 'pe-installer')
   proj.setting(:ruby_version, '2.7.8')
-  proj.setting(:augeas_version, '1.11.0')
   # We need to explicitly define 1.1.1k here to avoid
   # build dep conflicts between openssl-1.1.1 needed by curl
   # and krb5-devel
@@ -11,101 +8,9 @@
   else
     proj.setting(:openssl_version, '1.1.1')
   end
-  platform = proj.get_platform
-
-  proj.version_from_git
-  proj.generate_archives true
-  proj.generate_packages false
-
-  proj.description "The PE Installer runtime contains third-party components needed for PE Installer standalone packaging"
-  proj.license "See components"
-  proj.vendor "Puppet, Inc.  <info@puppet.com>"
-  proj.homepage "https://puppet.com"
-  proj.identifier "com.puppetlabs"
-
-  proj.setting(:prefix, "/opt/puppetlabs/installer")
-
-  proj.setting(:ruby_dir, proj.prefix)
-  proj.setting(:bindir, File.join(proj.prefix, 'bin'))
-  proj.setting(:ruby_bindir, proj.bindir)
-  proj.setting(:libdir, File.join(proj.prefix, 'lib'))
-  proj.setting(:includedir, File.join(proj.prefix, "include"))
-  proj.setting(:datadir, File.join(proj.prefix, "share"))
-  proj.setting(:mandir, File.join(proj.datadir, "man"))
-
-  proj.setting(:host_ruby, File.join(proj.ruby_bindir, "ruby"))
-  proj.setting(:host_gem, File.join(proj.ruby_bindir, "gem"))
-
-  ruby_base_version = proj.ruby_version.gsub(/(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)/, '\1.\2.0')
-  proj.setting(:gem_home, File.join(proj.libdir, 'ruby', 'gems', ruby_base_version))
-  proj.setting(:gem_install, "#{proj.host_gem} install --no-document --local --bindir=#{proj.ruby_bindir}")
-
-  proj.setting(:artifactory_url, "https://artifactory.delivery.puppetlabs.net/artifactory")
-  proj.setting(:buildsources_url, "#{proj.artifactory_url}/generic/buildsources")
-
-  # Define default CFLAGS and LDFLAGS for most platforms, and then
-  # tweak or adjust them as needed.
-  proj.setting(:cppflags, "-I#{proj.includedir} -I/opt/pl-build-tools/include")
-  proj.setting(:cflags, "#{proj.cppflags}")
-  proj.setting(:ldflags, "-L#{proj.libdir} -L/opt/pl-build-tools/lib -Wl,-rpath=#{proj.libdir}")
-
-  # These flags are applied in addition to the defaults in configs/component/openssl.rb.
-  proj.setting(:openssl_extra_configure_flags, [
-    'no-dtls',
-    'no-dtls1',
-    'no-idea',
-    'no-seed',
-    'no-weak-ssl-ciphers',
-    '-DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS',
-  ])
-
-  # What to build?
-  # --------------
-  #
-
+  
   # rubygem-net-ssh included in shared-agent-components
   proj.setting(:rubygem_net_ssh_version, '5.2.0')
-
-  ########
-  # Load shared agent components
-  # When we want to run Bolt from the pe-installer package, we want our
-  # puppet to have the same gems as the default puppet agent install.
-  ########
-
-  instance_eval File.read(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '_shared-agent-components.rb'))
-
-
-  # pl-build-tools
-  proj.component 'runtime-pe-installer'
-
-  # R10k dependencies
-  proj.component 'rubygem-gettext-setup'
-
-  # net-ssh dependencies for el8's OpenSSH default key format
-  proj.component 'rubygem-bcrypt_pbkdf'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-ed25519'
-
-  # main puppet agent components
-  # boost and yaml-cpp omitted since we don't need
-  # pxp-agent deps
-  proj.component 'rubygem-concurrent-ruby'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-ffi'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-multi_json'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-optimist'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-highline'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-hiera-eyaml'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-httpclient'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-thor'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-sys-filesystem'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-prime'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-erubi'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-nori'
-
-  # What to include in package?
-  proj.directory proj.prefix
-
-  # Export the settings for the current project and platform as yaml during builds
-  proj.publish_yaml_settings
-
-  proj.timeout 7200 if platform.is_windows?
+  proj.setting(:rubygem_puppet_version, '7.27.0')
+  instance_eval File.read(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '_shared-pe-installer-runtime.rb'))
 end
diff --git a/configs/projects/pe-installer-runtime-main.rb b/configs/projects/pe-installer-runtime-main.rb
index 0f0bb17f4..f54ae8001 100644
--- a/configs/projects/pe-installer-runtime-main.rb
+++ b/configs/projects/pe-installer-runtime-main.rb
@@ -1,107 +1,13 @@
 project 'pe-installer-runtime-main' do |proj|
-  # Used in component configurations to conditionally include dependencies
-  proj.setting(:runtime_project, 'pe-installer')
   proj.setting(:ruby_version, '3.2.3')
-  proj.setting(:augeas_version, '1.14.1')
   proj.setting(:openssl_version, '3.0')
   # NLTM uses MD4 unconditionally in its protocol, so legacy algos must be
   # enabled in OpenSSL >= 3.0 for Bolt's WinRM transport to work.
   # We DO NOT WANT legacy algos enabled for the Puppet Agent runtime.
   proj.setting(:use_legacy_openssl_algos, true)
-  platform = proj.get_platform
-
-  proj.version_from_git
-  proj.generate_archives true
-  proj.generate_packages false
-
-  proj.description "The PE Installer runtime contains third-party components needed for PE Installer standalone packaging"
-  proj.license "See components"
-  proj.vendor "Puppet, Inc.  <info@puppet.com>"
-  proj.homepage "https://puppet.com"
-  proj.identifier "com.puppetlabs"
-
-  proj.setting(:prefix, "/opt/puppetlabs/installer")
-
-  proj.setting(:ruby_dir, proj.prefix)
-  proj.setting(:bindir, File.join(proj.prefix, 'bin'))
-  proj.setting(:ruby_bindir, proj.bindir)
-  proj.setting(:libdir, File.join(proj.prefix, 'lib'))
-  proj.setting(:includedir, File.join(proj.prefix, "include"))
-  proj.setting(:datadir, File.join(proj.prefix, "share"))
-  proj.setting(:mandir, File.join(proj.datadir, "man"))
-
-  proj.setting(:host_ruby, File.join(proj.ruby_bindir, "ruby"))
-  proj.setting(:host_gem, File.join(proj.ruby_bindir, "gem"))
-
-  ruby_base_version = proj.ruby_version.gsub(/(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)/, '\1.\2.0')
-  proj.setting(:gem_home, File.join(proj.libdir, 'ruby', 'gems', ruby_base_version))
-  proj.setting(:gem_install, "#{proj.host_gem} install --no-document --local --bindir=#{proj.ruby_bindir}")
-
-  proj.setting(:artifactory_url, "https://artifactory.delivery.puppetlabs.net/artifactory")
-  proj.setting(:buildsources_url, "#{proj.artifactory_url}/generic/buildsources")
-
-  # Define default CFLAGS and LDFLAGS for most platforms, and then
-  # tweak or adjust them as needed.
-  proj.setting(:cppflags, "-I#{proj.includedir} -I/opt/pl-build-tools/include")
-  proj.setting(:cflags, "#{proj.cppflags}")
-  proj.setting(:ldflags, "-L#{proj.libdir} -L/opt/pl-build-tools/lib -Wl,-rpath=#{proj.libdir}")
-
-  # These flags are applied in addition to the defaults in configs/component/openssl.rb.
-  proj.setting(:openssl_extra_configure_flags, [
-    'no-dtls',
-    'no-dtls1',
-    'no-idea',
-    'no-seed',
-    'no-weak-ssl-ciphers',
-    '-DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS',
-  ])
-
-  # What to build?
-  # --------------
-  #
 
   # rubygem-net-ssh included in shared-agent-components
   proj.setting(:rubygem_net_ssh_version, '7.0.1')
-
-  ########
-  # Load shared agent components
-  # When we want to run Bolt from the pe-installer package, we want our
-  # puppet to have the same gems as the default puppet agent install.
-  ########
-
-  instance_eval File.read(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '_shared-agent-components.rb'))
-
-
-  # pl-build-tools
-  proj.component 'runtime-pe-installer'
-
-  # R10k dependencies
-  proj.component 'rubygem-gettext-setup'
-
-  # net-ssh dependencies for el8's OpenSSH default key format
-  proj.component 'rubygem-bcrypt_pbkdf'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-ed25519'
-
-  # main puppet agent components
-  # boost and yaml-cpp omitted since we don't need
-  # pxp-agent deps
-  proj.component 'rubygem-concurrent-ruby'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-ffi'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-multi_json'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-optimist'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-highline'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-hiera-eyaml'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-httpclient'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-thor'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-sys-filesystem'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-prime'
-  proj.component 'rubygem-erubi'
-
-  # What to include in package?
-  proj.directory proj.prefix
-
-  # Export the settings for the current project and platform as yaml during builds
-  proj.publish_yaml_settings
-
-  proj.timeout 7200 if platform.is_windows?
+  proj.setting(:rubygem_puppet_version, '8.3.1')
+  instance_eval File.read(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '_shared-pe-installer-runtime.rb'))
 end