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Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Building on the first three parts of the AWS Lambda scaling and best practices series where you learned how to design serverless apps for massive scale, AWS Lambda’s different invocation models, and best practices for developing with AWS Lambda, we now invite you to take your serverless knowledge to the next level by reviewing the following 10 topics to deepen your serverless skills.1: API and Microservices Design With the move to microservices-based architectures, decomposing monothlic applications and de-coupling dependencies is more important than ever. Learn more about how to design and deploy your microservices with Amazon ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Written in conjunction with Tino Vazquez from the OpenNebula Project, and cross-posted on the OpenNebula blog. Puppet is used for managing the infrastructure for many IaaS software packages, including Eucalyptus, OpenStack, and OpenNebula. OpenNebula is an IaaS manager which can not only manage a large amount of different virtualization and public cloud platforms, it can also emulate the API’s provided by EC2 and OCCI. It's great for creating private and public clouds, as well as hybrids of the two. Puppet Labs (or, more specifically, Ken Barber) has developed a powerful integration between OpenNebula ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; The Puppet CloudFormation Face integrates Puppet Enterprise (PE) with CloudFormation so that users can reliably create entire Puppet Enterprise “stacks” in Amazon’s EC2 from their workstation. A “stack” refers to a collection of launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) “resources” that can be specified as a “template” in CloudFormation’s declarative json modeling language. Templates support a wide range of AWS resources, including: EC2 instances, security groups, credentials, as well as a host of other resources. EC2 meta-data and user data can be associated with AWS resources in a CloudFormation template. This meta-data allows CloudFormation ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; With the release of Puppet Enterprise 2.0, Puppet Labs has added cloud provisioning capabilities with support for some of the most popular public and private cloud offerings including Amazon EC2 and VMware. PE 2.0 allows you to quickly provision virtual machines and start managing them with Puppet right away. Getting Started The following set of “micro” tutorials will show you how to leverage Puppet Enterprise 2.0 cloud provisioning capabilities on a public cloud (Amazon EC2). In order to get up and running you will need access to an Amazon’s EC2 account. Please note ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; We're pleased to announce that Puppet Camp EU will be hosted at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam on April 28th and 29th. The Early Bird Registration is available until March 5th. Sponsorship packages include tickets and offer the benefits of sponsorship for as little as an additional $150. This year, in addition to a track of speakers, we'll offer hosted breakout sessions, unconference sessions, a hosted code sprint room, and a bug squash room. We're accepting submissions for eight 40 minute presentations, and we're looking for a handful of volunteers to give ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's Note: The Ruby DSL was deprecated in Puppet 3x, and is removed in Puppet 4.0.0.Starting in Puppet 2.6.x, manifests can be written in Ruby.Motivations: Developers can generate puppet resources without having to learn the Puppet DSL. Possible to overcome any limitations of the Puppet DSL. Ruby already has well known unit testing frameworks. Methods: Puppet's Ruby DSL introduces two types of methods: Methods that create scopes: define Allows the user to implement a defined resource type in Ruby.define "services::port", :port, :protocol => 'tcp' do ... endport and protocols are accessible within the ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; One of the (many!) new features introduced in Puppet 2.6.0 was an audit capability. So what does this mean? Well a normal Puppet resources controls the state you'd like a configuration item to be in, for example: file { '/etc/hosts': owner => 'root', group => 'root', mode => 0660, } This file resource specifies that the /etc/hosts file should be owned by the root user and group and have permissions set to 0660. Every time Puppet runs it will check that this file's settings are correct and make changes if they are not ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Part 1 of this multi-post series, ETL and ELT design patterns for lake house architecture using Amazon Redshift: Part 1, discussed common customer use cases and design best practices for building ELT and ETL data processing pipelines for data lake architecture using Amazon Redshift Spectrum, Concurrency Scaling, and recent support for data lake export.This post shows you how to get started with a step-by-step walkthrough of a few ETL and ELT design patterns of Amazon Redshift using AWS sample datasets. Prerequisites Before getting started, make sure that you meet the following prerequisites: This post uses ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Percona Community; Francisco Miguel Biete Banon  | December 13, 2019 |  Posted In: Intermediate Level, MySQL, Percona Server for MySQLDatabase administrators are responsible for maintaining the privacy and integrity of data. When the data contains confidential information, your company has a legal obligation to ensure that privacy is maintained. Even so, being able to access the information contained in that dataset, for example for testing or reporting purposes, has great value so what to do? MySQL Enterprise Edition offers data masking and de-identification, so I decided to contribute similar functionality to Percona Server for MySQL. In this post, ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's Note: This post has been updated with information on using r10k, a tool developed by Adrien Thebo. For the most current information, read Git Workflows with Puppet and r10k.One of the features offered by Puppet is the ability to break up infrastructure configuration into environments. With environments, you can use a single Puppet master to serve multiple isolated configurations. For instance, you can adopt the development, testing and production series of environments embraced by a number of software development life cycles and by application frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, so that ... Read More