Tag: Open Source

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on Sensu’s blog on 16 August 2017. It is republished here with the permission of author Jason Dixon and Sensu.Looking backOne of Sensu’s core design tenets has always been to work in lockstep with the best Configuration Management (CM) systems. Even before Sensu existed as a product and now as a company, we were helping our customers build complex infrastructures and software delivery pipelines using automation tools like Chef and KitchenCI. We’re huge fans of infrastructure as code and the benefits it offers all IT organizations.And while ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's note: Arik Hessendahl is a guest blogger covering PuppetConf.Coming after a day which included the biggest batch of news announcements in Puppet’s corporate history, you might be forgiven for assuming that Day 2 of PuppetConf 2017 would open at something of a slower pace.Then came Porsche. In Thursday morning’s first keynote session Thorsten Biel, manager for cloud services at the Germany-based sport car manufacturer Porsche, explained how they have embraced automation and Puppet in particular in a shift to a more agile IT culture.Biel explained how the Porsche Principle — which, put ... Read More

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: 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: 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: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Professor Rainer Schmidt. Social information systems – how we share information – use both public systems such as social media and private systems internal to organizations such as internal blogs and wikis. These systems increasingly influence opinion-forming processes in societies and organizations, and supplement and sometimes replace traditional media such as newspapers, radio, and TV. The strength of social information systems lies in their ability to present previously unestablished opinions and viewpoints as fact, and can be used to disseminate false information, leading to polarization. The Munich University of Applied Science (MUAS) ... 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: ; Editor's note: As of 29 May 2019, we've sunsetted Puppet Discovery. Check out Puppet Remediate.Last May, we released the open source project, Lumogon™, that inspects running containers, and a preview of Puppet Cloud Discovery, a tool to discover cloud infrastructure. We talked to numerous users about their challenges and learned a lot in the process. They consistently told us that they are being asked to manage a large number of heterogeneous resources such as physical servers, VMs, containers, and network devices from a widening array of endpoints and interfaces. And, they wanted a ... 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