Perl missing on CentOS 7 minimal install

When trying to install some Nagios plugins on my minimal CentOS 7 host, I was frustrated for a while when the plugins failed to run with errors about:


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.funkypenguin.co.nz/note/perl-missing-on-centos-7-minimal-install/

David thanks, I ran into this issue and this post validated it for me as well. Solved via this command as root from the terminal:
yum install perl -y