Tag: environment

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's note: Arik Hessendahl is a guest blogger covering PuppetConf.Some things about the way that companies run are old-school for a reason. Take corporate boards. When you’re invited to sit as a director of a company’s board, it’s usually because you’ve earned some admiration for your expertise and experience in a given field. It used to be that large companies wanted well-known names on their boards, but since the Sarbanes-Oxley law of 2002, it has become a much more tightly regulated and scrutinized affair. It’s also a lot of work. Directors must work ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; As you may know, there’s a sizeable community of Puppet users and customers in Japan. There’s the Japan Puppet user group (PUG) that meets regularly, and its founder, Ryo Sugahara, was one of this year’s finalists for the Most Valued Puppeteer award and translated our first-ever Japanese documentation. Also, Tokyo-based NTT Data use the Japanese version of Puppet Enterprise to manage their Unified Development Cloud environment.Today we’re pleased to announce several things to help Puppet users and customers — as well as organizations looking to adopt DevOps practices and drive digital transformations — ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; On 8 November, Puppet is kicking off a brand new webinar series called Talking Tech, where we’ll host discussions about exciting new technology that’s driving the industry forward. Join our industry experts, partners and customers as we dive deep into topics that matter to IT and answer your biggest questions.Our first three sessions of the series are:Delivering Infrastructure and Security Policy as Code with Puppet and CyberArk Conjur on 8 NovemberLearn how to safeguard your corporate secrets and deliver applications faster with Puppet and CyberArk Conjur.Manage F5 BIG-IP Infrastructure with Puppet on 14 ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Derek Belt. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for Amazon Web Services (AWS). We enable APN Partners to build, market, and sell their AWS-based offerings, and we help customers identify top APN Partners that can deliver on core business objectives.To receive APN program designations such as AWS Competency, AWS Managed Services Provider (MSP), and AWS Service Delivery, organizations must undergo rigorous technical validation and assessment of their AWS solutions and practices. These designations help customers team up with specialized APN Partners that can provide value-added services and solutions. Guidance from these ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Rick Negrin. There is a trend in industry which says that modern applications need to be built on top of one or more special-purpose databases. That every application benefits from using the best-of-breed technology for each requirement. And that the plethora of special-purpose options available from certain cloud providers is reasonable to manage. That’s all BUNK. The reality is that navigating the choices, figuring out how to use them effectively, and dealing with the ETL and inevitable data sprawl, is so difficult that the pain far outweighs any technical advantage you might get. In the vast ... 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

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: John Mount. [This article was first published on R – Win-Vector Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. In our last note we stated that unpack is a good tool for load R RDS files into your working environment. Here is the idea expanded into a worked example. # remotes::install_github("WinVector/wrapr") library(wrapr) a character(0) # notice workspace environemnt now empty # read back while documenting what we expect to ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; We are super excited to announce the release of Puppet Enterprise 2017.3.Over the course of the past few releases, one of the things we've heard from you is that you want to extend your automation footprint across teams and standardize the way your organization delivers and operates software.As a result of all that feedback, we’ve shipped more innovation today than we have on any other day in our history. Puppet Enterprise 2017.3 features new and enhanced capabilities that will help you scale automation success across your organization and take immediate action to automate ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; One of Puppet’s big strengths over the past decade has been the idea of model-driven automation. With Puppet, you model the desired end state of your infrastructure and Puppet does the hard work of continually enforcing that state on your behalf. It's powerful enough that the idea of idempotent desired state has become the standard way in which everyone expects new config management tools to work.But as we've talked to many of you about how Puppet fits in with your day-to-day work and how we can continue to help level-up your skills, we ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; *Editor's note: We invite you to join us at Puppetize PDX this 9-10 October 2019. It's a beginner-friendly event, complete with training opportunities.*So you’re ready to get started with Puppet and you don’t know where to begin. That’s alright, because this blog post is meant to point you in the right direction. My most common recommendation for complete newbies is to check out learn.puppet.com and run through a few of the self-paced learning videos that explain what Puppet is and how it works. Once you’ve gotten the hang of that, the Learning VM ... Read More