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Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's note: As of 29 May 2019, we've sunsetted Puppet Discovery, Puppet Pipelines and Puppet Container Registry.October is a big month for us at Puppet. We are on day two of PuppetConf, our annual user conference, attended and watched by thousands of practitioners and IT leaders. At yesterday’s keynote we announced a number of new products, which I’d like to describe in more detail. Our mission at Puppet is to empower people through software. By "people" we have traditionally referred to sysadmins, but over the last few years as we've helped the DevOps ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Meenoo Rami. In October 2018, we announced the Microsoft Higher Education Accelerator, enabling ISVs and other solution providers to quickly build industry vertical solutions tailored for higher education. Since then, we have updated the accelerator with new scenarios to help institutions transform how they engage with students and their constituents and improve student outcomes.Our latest version, now generally available, extends the Common Data Model scenarios to include new entities, sample apps, and analytics for business partner management and student accomplishments. The accelerator also includes entities around internships, scholarships, grants, and more.About the industry acceleratorOne ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Many AWS customers use a multi-account strategy. A centralized AWS Glue Data Catalog is important to minimize the amount of administration related to sharing metadata across different accounts. This post introduces capability that allows Amazon Athena to query a centralized Data Catalog across different AWS accounts.Overview of solution In late 2019, AWS introduced the ability to Connect Amazon Athena to your Apache Hive Metastore. Using this functionality, you can also configure Athena to point to a Data Catalog in a different account. The Hive Metastore functionality uses an AWS Lambda function to federate queries to ... 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: ; We are pleased to announce the technical preview release of the official Visual Studio Code Puppet extension! What started out as a side project done during James Pogran and Glenn Sarti's spare time, has turned into a full-featured official Puppet extension.The extension supports the following platforms:Microsoft WindowsMacOSLinuxHow can I install the Puppet VSCode extension?You can install the Puppet VSCode extension either from the Extensions tab in your VSCode editor, through the Visual Studio Code Extension gallery, or manually after downloading the extension.You can find more detailed instructions on installation on the readme.What can ... 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: Databasejournal.com - Feature Database Articles. Author: . Practically every SQL Server Database Administrator operating in an on-premises environment is familiar with Transact-SQL DBCC statements that serve the role of Database Console Commands. However, there are some additional considerations that should be considered when using them in the context of Azure SQL Database deployments. In this article, I provide an overview of their primary characteristics and explore their role in Database-as-a-Service scenarios. While the acronym DBCC was originally derived from the term Database Consistency Checker, this designation has been changed to Database Console Commands, in order to reflect much more ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bill Schmarzo. Imagine this scenario: You enter your dentist’s office as a follow-up visit to the 6-month checkup you had last week. You’re nervous because the checkup revealed bleeding in your gums and cracks in your fillings, all things that require your dentist’s repair on this occasion. So, you’re there nervously fidgeting in the lobby waiting for your name to be called, envisioning all sorts of dentistry implements of torture that will soon be inside your mouth. Finally, when your name is called, you’re shown to the room of horrors and ... 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: ; Whether you’re new to containers or a seasoned veteran, you’ve probably come to realize that actually operating container-based infrastructure can quickly become unwieldy, particularly at scale. At scale, and over time, some of the subtleties around containers can trip you up and make operations harder than they need to be. In this blog post, I highlight some of the common challenges with container configuration, and ways you can use Puppet to overcome them. We have come to think of configuration management as being concerned with low-level tasks like installing packages, maintaining configuration files, ... Read More