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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

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. One hundred fifty-two packages made it to CRAN in December. Here are my “Top 40” picks in ten categories: Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Data climate v0.3.0: Provides access to meteorological and hydrological data from OGIMET, University of Wyoming – atmospheric vertical profiling data, ... 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: ; We are excited to announce the first release of our new open source Puppet Development Kit (PDK). Download it, get help installing it and then run through the Getting Started Guide to learn more.With the Puppet Development Kit you can:Quickly get started developing Puppet modules while using best practices and new integrated tools that enable you to develop, test and publish high-quality Puppet modules. Shift quality to the left by catching issues earlier and faster, before Puppet code is applied to live infrastructure.Unit-test modules from your workstation to ensure that Puppet code is ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's note: The Lumogon open source project is now unmaintained.The tooling around container metadata continues to grow, and the new Manifesto tool from Aqua Security fills a useful niche. This post shows how to use Manifesto with Lumogon to store information about the contents of your Docker images alongside the images themselves on Docker Hub.ManifestoManifesto is a new tool from the folks at Aqua Security that allows users to store and query metadata for Docker images using only Docker Hub. This metadata can be any information that you want to store about an ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; One of the best ways to ensure good, solid security on systems across your organization is to establish baselines defining a minimum set of standards for access, firewalls and services. Puppet can help you define, build, and maintain those configuration management baselines in a straightforward way that’s just not possible when working at scale.In this blog post, I cover a few basic steps you can take with Puppet to improve your security by building in some basic assertions about the state of your servers. We'll start with defining manifests that limit access to ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Python 2 has officially completed its life as of Jan 1st, 2020 and the Python 2.x branch will not be maintained anymore. You might be seeing repeated notices of deprecation in log files and terminals like: DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 will reach the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 won't be maintained after that date.DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 will reach the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 won't be maintained after that date.Python 2 had a wonderful life, coming from a ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; That much data is more useful to machines than people however, so let’s use this low-level tool to answer some specific questions. It would be possible in the future to build a higher-level, more problem-focused user interface to Lumogon data, but for the moment we’ll show examples using the excellent JQ.Looking at a containers labelsLet’s look at a simple example to begin with. Let’s view the labels for a specific container:docker run --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock puppet/lumogon scan fixtures_ubuntu-xenial_1 | jq ".containers[].capabilities.label.payload" "payload": { "com.docker.compose.config-hash": "600c3e117e3a2dfeadac8bec2680b40f71dcc2fe8dae8d402432131df2d59646", "com.docker.compose.container-number": "1", "com.docker.compose.oneoff": "False", "com.docker.compose.project": "fixtures", "com.docker.compose.service": "ubuntu-xenial", ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Whether you’re edging toward a full DevOps initiative or simply looking for ways to better communicate and collaborate across functions, you and your IT organization can take advantage of a wide variety of free and proprietary DevOps tools to help you along.DevOps tools are those that promote sharing and collaboration, and they're so widely used, you may already be familiar with some of the ones described below. The key to expanding DevOps culture and practices is to think about how they might be used beyond your IT department, and shared in new ways ... Read More