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Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; One of my favorite parts of PuppetConf is hearing what people are doing with Puppet technology. It’s always a learning experience. You’ll be learning in the hallway, at the events, and of course during the sessions. I love hearing about people pushing Puppet technology in ways I hadn’t considered, or combining it with other tools to make solutions to a larger set of problems. This year, we have several talks lined up to expand your knowledge of Puppet and take you deeper into the capabilities and extension points of our tech. Allow me ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; We — and many of our customers — use Splunk and are big fans of the rich analytics and intelligence it provides. That's why we're so excited to announce our new strategic partnership with Splunk, which will bring together those insights Splunk provides and the automation and orchestration Puppet provides. Together we'll help teams build, deploy and manage their systems and software more quickly, securely and reliably.To kick off this partnership, we’ve introduced a new integration and an updated app: The Splunk ITSI Module for Puppet Enterprise and the new Splunk App and ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Everybody talks about how continuous delivery is desirable to deliver products faster, so you can get feedback faster, get to revenue faster, and compete effectively. That said, continuous delivery is not easy. Achieving continuous delivery requires you to focus on your internal processes. Being a skeptical person, I asked myself, "Will focusing on our internal processes really enable us to deliver value to customers, as and when needed?"In fact, we did significantly cut our release cycles. We also found that shortening our release cycles helped us solicit feedback along the way, and build ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Today we are thrilled to announce, alongside our friends at Google, a new project between Google and Puppet to make it easy to manage Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services with Puppet. To learn more, register for the webinar with me and Nelson Araujo from Google on 13 September 2017.The initial release includes five open source Puppet Approved modules for managing GCP services, using the Puppet DSL. All are available from the Puppet Forge.The modulesThere is also one additional helper module that provides a single unified authentication mechanism for all modules that is available ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's Note: This post was originally posted on Glenn Sarti's blog, http://glennsarti.github.io. It appears here in a slightly modified form, with Glenn's permission.Puppet, PowerShell and FacterPuppet uses a tool called Facter to gather system information during a Puppet run. This information is known as facts within Puppet. As the Facter documentation says:Facter is Puppet's cross-platform system profiling library. It discovers and reports per-node facts, which are available in your Puppet manifests as variables.There are some core facts which Facter evaluates on all operating systems. However there are two additional types of facts that ... Read More

Feed: Cambridge Intelligence. Author: Dan Williams. In this final post in our three-parter exploring the typical challenges you face when visualizing your graph data for the first time, we look at the ‘starburst’ – a pattern where one heavily connected node dominates the chart.Usual suspect #3: it’s hard to see past a starburstWhere do starbursts come from?In previous posts, we saw how the underlying data source plays a significant role in determining whether you see a chart dominated by snowstorms or hairballs. But in both those cases, the main focus was on visualizing a dataset in its entirety.When working with ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Roman Chuprina. Machine Learning is a term heard around the world these days. Industries like Retail, Healthcare, and Manufacturing are taking the best out of it. So does the leaders in Banking and Finance. There is enough time and room before the technology will truly explode. However, we can still talk about some real-world use cases and ways your business can benefit. AI and ML in financial services Machine learning in finance is rapidly developing – there are already dozens of options for its use in the financial sector. So why ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Fahad Zaidi. Having spent the better part of the last decade helping organisations in the U.S. and the U.K. use data to drive profit, efficiency, and performance improvements, I thought it would be helpful to jot down best practices for organizations that are looking to get the most value out of their enterprise-level financial and operational data sets. Every organisation entering the roaring 20s knows that they must use their data as a strategic differentiator to gain a competitive advantage and this article lists five things all companies must do to ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; The move to the cloud is the most important sea change we have experienced in the technology world since the web revolutionized how businesses interact with their customers. The benefits most often associated with cloud computing are around agility (the ability to create virtual resources in minutes) and capital efficiency (the ability to stand up infrastructure with no up-front capital costs). While agility and capital efficiency are critical drivers, the most important shift we are seeing is that customers expect vendors will take over an increasing amount of the operational burden of running ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; What is data and what is code?This issue of what constitutes data is the first wrinkle in devising what I call a data escalation path. For background reading, the Puppet docs page on roles and profiles does a great job of describing the difference between a component module and a profile. To quickly summarize: A component module is a general-purpose module designed to model the configuration of a piece of technology (e.g., Apache, Tomcat or ntpd), and a profile is an organization-specific Puppet module that describes an organization's implementation of a piece of ... Read More