Tag: Cloud

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: ; I’m thrilled to announce that Puppet has acquired Distelli , a privately held continuous delivery automation software company based in Seattle, WA. Over the last 12 years, Puppet has built a powerful brand and successful business based on automation, and it has become synonymous with DevOps. Now, with Distelli, we will provide a comprehensive solution for automating the entire software delivery lifecycle.As software delivery within the enterprise continues to evolve, DevOps has become one of the most widespread movements focused on optimizing the delivery of such software. A significant part of this movement ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; With Puppetconf 2017 coming to San Francisco in less than a month we thought it might be interesting to take a look at some of the talks we have lined up. In this post we’re focusing on the Moving to the Cloud and Containers track.Moving to the cloudWe have several talks focused on using Puppet with public and private cloud environments.R Tyler Croy from CloudBees will be explaining all about Shipping the Jenkins Project to Azure with Puppet and Kubernetes. This session will tell a fascinating story about embracing modern tooling and migrating ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; This morning at VMworld US, VMware announced initial availability of VMware Cloud on AWS, as well as a new security solution, VMware AppDefense. VMware is a long-standing partner and we’re thrilled to share our latest collaboration: Puppet Enterprise is now validated to run on VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS and integrated with AppDefense. VMC on AWS enables customers to run VMware’s enterprise-class software-defined data center (SDDC) software on dedicated, bare metal AWS infrastructure. Customers can take advantage of AWS’s global footprint and breadth of services, and easily move workloads between their vSphere®-based private ... 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: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. Monday newsletter published by Data Science Central. Previous editions can be found here. The contribution flagged with a + is our selection for the picture of the week. To subscribe, follow this link.   Featured Resources and Technical Contributions  Key Graph Based Shortest Path Algorithms - Part 1: Dijkstra's And Bellman-Ford + Portfolio optimization with Quantum Computing Multi Gigabyte R data.table for Ohio Voter Registration/History Importance of Hyper-parameters in Model development Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave Docker in 10 minutes Scene-rendering with Google's DeepMind 5 Most Preferred Programming ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; PuppetConf 2017 is fast approaching, and we have some exciting updates to share. Block out your calendar for 10–12 October in San Francisco, and register by 10 August to receive the 20 percent discount for early birds. IT Leader trackPuppetConf offers awesome keynotes, sessions (and so much more!) for practitioners — but don’t forget to invite the IT leaders in your organization. For the third consecutive year, PuppetConf will feature an IT Leader track focused on emerging trends in IT, plus real-world stories of digital transformation, the future of DevOps, security and compliance, ... 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: ; According to the U.S. Department of Justice, ransomware is the fastest growing malware threat, with an average of more than 4,000 ransomware attacks occurring daily since 1 January 2016. This represents a 300 percent increase over the approximately 1,000 attacks seen daily in 2015.As we saw earlier this year, WannaCry ransomware was unleashed on a Friday, and spread rapidly to machines across the globe. Four days later, WannaCry had crippled an estimated 300,000 computers in more than 150 countries. While the reported ransom per incident was relatively low (U.S. $300-$600), Reuters reported that ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; We're proud to announce that last month, VMware named Puppet as a regional winner of a prestigious Partner Innovation award in the Technical ISV (independent software vendor) category. The award was announced on 24 May at VMware's annual Partner Leadership Summit, where VMware recognizes its partners' outstanding achievements of the prior year. It's both humbling and gratifying to see Puppet recognized along with so many other top partners. The award recognizes both our long-term partnership with VMware, and the value that customers and partners get from the Puppet plug-in for vRealize Automation (vRA) ... Read More