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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: ; One of my favorite parts of PuppetConf is hearing what people are doing with Puppet technology. It’s always a learning experience. You’ll be learning in the hallway, at the events, and of course during the sessions. I love hearing about people pushing Puppet technology in ways I hadn’t considered, or combining it with other tools to make solutions to a larger set of problems. This year, we have several talks lined up to expand your knowledge of Puppet and take you deeper into the capabilities and extension points of our tech. Allow me ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; We — and many of our customers — use Splunk and are big fans of the rich analytics and intelligence it provides. That's why we're so excited to announce our new strategic partnership with Splunk, which will bring together those insights Splunk provides and the automation and orchestration Puppet provides. Together we'll help teams build, deploy and manage their systems and software more quickly, securely and reliably.To kick off this partnership, we’ve introduced a new integration and an updated app: The Splunk ITSI Module for Puppet Enterprise and the new Splunk App and ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; In the video, I refer to Run Me Maybe and Always Be Scheduling, two tools we use internally. Sorry, those aren't open sourced… yet.I arted and so can youPuppet’s SRE team is constantly making improvements (and we’re always updating supported operating systems), so some of the details in these videos are probably out of date already. Hopefully, presenting the information like this turns out to be not just useful, but inspiring, so when someone decides it is too out of date, they can make a new version.“But you’re so creative, Tiffany, I could ... 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: ; This morning at VMworld US, VMware announced initial availability of VMware Cloud on AWS, as well as a new security solution, VMware AppDefense. VMware is a long-standing partner and we’re thrilled to share our latest collaboration: Puppet Enterprise is now validated to run on VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS and integrated with AppDefense. VMC on AWS enables customers to run VMware’s enterprise-class software-defined data center (SDDC) software on dedicated, bare metal AWS infrastructure. Customers can take advantage of AWS’s global footprint and breadth of services, and easily move workloads between their vSphere®-based private ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; The Windows Platform team here at Puppet has been working hard on updating our key Windows modules. Customers who use our Puppet Supported SQL Server module will be happy to know that we added support for SQL Server 2016. We also added support for internationalization and the new Puppet 5 platform. You can see all of the updates here.We also made updates to our supported IIS and ACL modules. Both now support Puppet 5. Additionally:IIS 4.1 includes bug fixes based on customer feedback. See the changelog for more details.ACL 2.0.1 allows you to ... Read More

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: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's Note: This post was originally posted on Glenn Sarti's blog, http://glennsarti.github.io. It appears here in a slightly modified form, with Glenn's permission.Puppet, PowerShell and FacterPuppet uses a tool called Facter to gather system information during a Puppet run. This information is known as facts within Puppet. As the Facter documentation says:Facter is Puppet's cross-platform system profiling library. It discovers and reports per-node facts, which are available in your Puppet manifests as variables.There are some core facts which Facter evaluates on all operating systems. However there are two additional types of facts that ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; If your daily language isn't English, you've probably noticed that the output from supported Puppet modules is displayed in English — and only in English. That's about to change. We are now making changes so that other languages can be available on the Forge. This is part of our internationalization effort to support end users whose first language is not English.If you're writing a module and you want to make it available in multiple languages, you need to decorate strings that are externalized — that is, displayed to the person using the module ... Read More