Category: Automation

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's note: Arik Hessendahl is a guest blogger covering PuppetConf.If you know anything about the ways that IT operations have evolved over the last decade or so, then you intuitively understand how automation can be beneficial. I’m no technical expert, but I’ve spent a fair amount of time over the last 20 years talking to them, so I get it, at least in broad brushstrokes. But there’s broad brushstrokes, and then there’s details. During my two days at PuppetConf 2017, I learned a lot about how companies as varied as Nike and Porsche ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's note: Arik Hessendahl is a guest blogger covering PuppetConf.Some things about the way that companies run are old-school for a reason. Take corporate boards. When you’re invited to sit as a director of a company’s board, it’s usually because you’ve earned some admiration for your expertise and experience in a given field. It used to be that large companies wanted well-known names on their boards, but since the Sarbanes-Oxley law of 2002, it has become a much more tightly regulated and scrutinized affair. It’s also a lot of work. Directors must work ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; As you may know, there’s a sizeable community of Puppet users and customers in Japan. There’s the Japan Puppet user group (PUG) that meets regularly, and its founder, Ryo Sugahara, was one of this year’s finalists for the Most Valued Puppeteer award and translated our first-ever Japanese documentation. Also, Tokyo-based NTT Data use the Japanese version of Puppet Enterprise to manage their Unified Development Cloud environment.Today we’re pleased to announce several things to help Puppet users and customers — as well as organizations looking to adopt DevOps practices and drive digital transformations — ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; How often are you exactly right? I mean, 100% perfect? It’s not often. When delivering new software and services to customers (internal or external), you’ve made a bet that what you’re providing is what the customer truly needs. The problem with traditional delivery is that you might be wrong, and by quite a bit. What if instead of optimizing for shipping the perfect thing when it’s ready, you optimized for feedback from your customer base? The goal of shipping now becomes learning, rather than checking off boxes on a requirement sheet. This is ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; On 8 November, Puppet is kicking off a brand new webinar series called Talking Tech, where we’ll host discussions about exciting new technology that’s driving the industry forward. Join our industry experts, partners and customers as we dive deep into topics that matter to IT and answer your biggest questions.Our first three sessions of the series are:Delivering Infrastructure and Security Policy as Code with Puppet and CyberArk Conjur on 8 NovemberLearn how to safeguard your corporate secrets and deliver applications faster with Puppet and CyberArk Conjur.Manage F5 BIG-IP Infrastructure with Puppet on 14 ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; We had an amazing time at PuppetConf 2017 — thanks in no small part to all of you who attended, watched the live stream, presented a session, sponsored, and gave us the feedback that led to our biggest set of announcements.Today we’re happy to share the videos, slides, and photos from PuppetConf 2017. For those of you who were there in San Francisco, go ahead and relive the conference, rewatch your favorite sessions, watch the ones you couldn’t fit in your schedule, and share them with your team. And for those of you ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; One of the core principles of DevOps is that responsibilities should be shared across teams and there should be no silos. Silos can have a number of detrimental effects on product development, from making communication across teams less efficient to creating an “us v. them” mentality. One of the most insidious impacts of team silos is the “chuck it over the fence” anti-pattern, where teams complete their part of a project and then relinquish responsibility to the next downstream team. With this mode of operation, ownership is hard to establish until, ultimately, you ... Read More

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: ; Want to make your security and compliance team happy? Now you can, with Puppet’s new extended product lifecycle. Earlier this year our VP of customer success, Sandra Hamilton, emailed details about release cycle changes for Puppet Enterprise customers. We updated our product release cycle to twice-annual releases effective May 2017, and on our website defined support categories of Mainstream, Limited and End of Life based on where the product resides in the lifecycle. Effective 11 October, we added a new Extended support level, which includes fixes for critical bugs and security updates for ... 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