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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: Cambridge Intelligence. Author: Dan Williams. In this final post in our three-parter exploring the typical challenges you face when visualizing your graph data for the first time, we look at the ‘starburst’ – a pattern where one heavily connected node dominates the chart.Usual suspect #3: it’s hard to see past a starburstWhere do starbursts come from?In previous posts, we saw how the underlying data source plays a significant role in determining whether you see a chart dominated by snowstorms or hairballs. But in both those cases, the main focus was on visualizing a dataset in its entirety.When working with ... 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: ; We’re really looking forward to being at the F5 Agility 2017 conference in Chicago (1 - 2 August at the Chicago Hilton). Since I joined a little over two years ago, F5 is a name that keeps reverberating within Puppet — for example, our customers asking, "When can we get more of that Puppet-F5 goodness?" I think it’s safe to say that we’ve been wanting to work more closely with F5 for quite a while. Well, now Puppet and F5 are formally partnering to provide key modules so our customers can accelerate their ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; The demand for professionals who know their way around Puppet is high — and continues to grow. So for individual people, Puppet training is a big advantage. And it's good for organizations, too. The Association for Talent Development found that companies encouraging training:Have 218 percent higher income per employee than those with minimal comprehensive training.Enjoy a 24 percent higher profit margin than companies spending less on training.Generate a 6 percent higher shareholder return if the training expenditure per employee increases by $680.Still not convinced? Let’s dive deeper and see why training Puppet training ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; I have run out of superlatives to try to express how excited I am about this release, so I'll just put it out there: The Puppet 5 Platform is available for download now.As you may remember, we wrote about the upcoming release of Puppet 5 last month. As we said in that blog post, the primary goals of this release are:To standardize the version numbering of all the major Puppet components (Puppet Agent, PuppetDB, Puppet Server) to 5, as a first step towards delivering these components as a unified platform.To include Hiera 5 ... 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: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's Note: This blog post was originally published on the World Wide Technology blog in a slightly different form, and is republished with the kind permission of author Curt Stalhood.Modern data centers are increasingly utilizing automated configuration management tools such as Puppet Enterprise to provision compute resources, storage, network, security, application and middleware across on-premise and/or cloud data centers. Puppet has partnered with VMware to use Puppet modules as building blocks for vRealize Automation application blueprints. This enables deployment of multi-tier applications using Puppet modules. The integration of Puppet with vRealize Automation provides ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.18 ships all functionality to run Group Replication and InnoDB Cluster setups, so I decided to evaluate how it works and how it compares with Percona XtraDB Cluster in some situations.For this I planned to use three bare metal nodes, SSD drives, and a 10Gb network available for in-between nodes communication, but later I also added tests on three bare metal nodes with NVMe drives and 2x10Gb network cards.To simplify deployment, I created simple ansible scripts.Load DataThe first initial logical step is to load data into an empty cluster, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Matt Yellen, Principal Engineer at CloudZeroAnalyzing large datasets can be challenging, especially if you aren’t thinking about certain characteristics of the data and what you’re ultimately looking to achieve. There are a number of factors organizations need to consider in order to build systems that are flexible, affordable, and fast, while at the same time meeting the needs of their end users. For example, you need to understand where your data is coming from, how often it changes, and how the data will be queried. In some cases, a fixed ... Read More