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Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Q: I've run into an issue with my Puppet Enterprise installation that I’d like to learn more about. What are some things I can do to get more information around an issue and potentially treat it?A: There are several ways to get more information about issues affecting your Puppet Enterprise installation. Here are some potential areas of investigation and what you can do to resolve any issues you may find:Check Puppet Enterprise service statusesAre Puppet Enterprise services up and running? On 2016.5 and later you can get the status of services by running ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's note: As of 29 May 2019, we've sunsetted Puppet Discovery and Puppet Pipelines.The journey to pervasive automation isn’t quite as daunting if you have the right tools in hand. Having a better means to discover what’s in hybrid infrastructures, and then take the management and automation actions needed to drive more business value are great first steps. It’s why we released Puppet Enterprise® 2018.1 and its expanded enterprise-class features and the new, generally available Puppet Discovery™ — and plan to launch Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise on 6 June 2018.What we launchedKey ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Extending Puppet Enterprise with BoltWhen we introduced Puppet Tasks last fall, we also introduced Bolt, our open source task runner. Since then, we’ve made some major improvements and have been adding feature releases to Bolt on a weekly basis. Bolt gives you an agentless way to run simple commands or orchestrated workflows across your entire infrastructure. It uses SSH and WinRM to make connections to nodes, and tasks can be run as sudo or any other user.Bolt now integrates with the Puppet Orchestrator, which is built on our ultra-scalable PCP (Puppet Communications Protocol) ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Learn more in the Puppet Discovery announcement blog post.Introducing Puppet Enterprise® 2018.1At PuppetConf 2017 we delivered Puppet Enterprise 2017.3, which introduced support for Puppet Tasks, augmenting Puppet’s desired-state configuration system with the ability to execute operational tasks on remote targets. Doing this helped broaden the set of resources that Puppet can operate on, as well as deepen the kinds of operations that can be automated on those resources.Since PuppetConf, we’ve seen significant traction with Tasks, with many of our customers packaging them into Puppet modules: around 80 task-enabled Puppet modules are now available ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Managing complex IT systems is always a delicate balancing act for sysadmins — between getting the latest updates to take advantage of new features and bug fixes, as well as security updates, and keeping a stable system running without making any unnecessary changes. Add to this the often complex and time consuming change control procedures in place at many enterprises, and what develops is a situation where as long as there are no pressing problems, it is easier to leave production systems running the same versions of critical software until an upgrade is ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Modules are at the heart of how Puppet works, bringing together self-contained code and data that’s reusable, consistent, and easily shared. They’re made up of manifests, which describe what you want to do — like building a LAMP server — and make it happen. Knowing how to confidently build modules is key to Puppet automation that we’re always looking to make easier.That’s why this past year we introduced Puppet Development Kit, otherwise known as PDK, to help our community and partners easily build new modules. PDK helps keep your module consistent with established ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. repmgr is an open-source toolset from 2ndQuadrant, a leading specialist in PostgreSQL-related technologies and services. The product is used to automate, enhance, and manage PostgreSQL streaming replication.Streaming replication in PostgreSQL has been around since version 9.0. Natively setting up and managing streaming replication involves a number of manual steps which includes: Configuring replication parameters in both primary and each standby node Backing up primary node data with pg_basebackup from each standby node and restoring it there Restarting the standby node(s) From an operational side, a few tasks include: Checking replication status using SQL statements Promoting a standby ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Today Amazon Web Services announced AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise. OpsWorks has seen a lot of demand for a Puppet Enterprise offering and we’ve been working closely with the OpsWorks team to meet that demand. (Not familiar with OpsWorks? It’s a cloud-based configuration management service that enables enterprises to automate the management of their cloud infrastructure running on AWS.) With OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise, you can use the same configurations to manage both your on-premises and cloud infrastructure, accelerating migration to the cloud and increasing your ability to efficiently scale your operations in ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Tom Tasker. By Tom Tasker, EMEA Storage Partner Solutions Architect at AWSMicrosoft SQL (MSSQL) is an enterprise-level database application used by some of the world’s largest companies. With business-critical data housed in MSSQL databases, high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) are essential features of any MSSQL deployment that businesses have to architect for. With Amazon Web Services (AWS), server resources for large MSSQL deployments can be taken out of the data center and run on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. The ability to boot these instances in minutes provides ease ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Severalnines; April 2018 is not just a date for the MySQL world. MySQL 8.0 was released there, and more than 1 year after, it’s probably time to consider migrating to this new version. MySQL 8.0 has important performance and security improvements, and, as in all migration to a new database version, there are several things to take into account before going into production to avoid hard issues like data loss, excessive downtime, or even a rollback during the migration task. In this blog, we’ll mention some of the new MySQL 8.0 features, some deprecated stuff, and ... Read More