Category: ansible

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; YAML is a serialization language that was created in 2001, although it would take another few years before it became super popular. The acronym originally referred to Yet Another Markup Language but this was changed a few years later to YAML Ain’t Markup Language, to emphasize that developers should use it for storing data, instead of creating documents (like HTML or Markdown, for example).To find out why YAML was created, we need to go back to XML, which was the common configuration language before JSON. XML, characterized by the use of < > ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Red Hat Satellite and Puppet Users of Red Hat Satellite will see changes coming out with regard to how Satellite interacts with Puppet. Satellite has long bundled Puppet in the distribution, using Puppet both as the Satellite installer and for configuration management. Users also had the option to leverage Satellite as an External Node Classifier (ENC) for their Puppet estates. Red Hat acquired Ansible, an imperative configuration management tool, in late 2015. Starting in version 6.9, the use of Satellite as a Puppet ENC was deprecated along with most of the other supported ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; In this final part of the blog series we are going to review some of the more abstract ideas that exist around DevOps and how they relate to Puppet. This final blog post will make more sense if you have read part 1 which covers some of the preparation and part 2 which covers topics during the evaluation. Things to keep in mindAutomation is a spectrumModel-driven automation helps you achieve both scale and complexity while still giving you a simple, composable and human readable way to describe your infrastructure. With Puppet’s platform you ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Andrew Hartnett; First of all, what is DevOps? DevOps is short for Developer Operations and it is a newer approach that combines both development and operational tasks to automate and speed up software development practices and reduce release cycles for fast-growing companies. DevOps is built on the concept of teamwork and aims to unite teams that were traditionally kept separate and siloed, and reduces the development lifecycle for faster scalability. Once companies have decided which their business needs and objectives are, they need to start small and work towards adopting the DevOps model across the entire ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; In the age of cloud, infrastructure has become a competitive differentiator. Companies that build scalable, repeatable, automated Azure clouds are able to get products to market faster and innovate with fewer risks. But many companies feel that this vision of innovation on the cloud is out of reach, mostly due to a lack of cloud expertise. In fact, 85% of IT executives say that greater cloud expertise would help them recoup the return on their cloud investment, and 71% believed their organizations have lost revenue due to a lack of cloud expertise. An Azure Managed ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Ben Ford; One of Puppet’s big strengths is declarative automation – you model the desired end state of your infrastructure and Puppet does the hard work of enforcing it. This concept is quite powerful and has become the industry standard for configuration management. But sometimes your workflow doesn't quite fit into that pattern. Sometimes you really do need to deploy point-in-time changes, or mix imperative and declarative approaches together in a single workflow.With Bolt, we've learned from the lessons of Puppet and used those to design the next generation of infrastructure automation. Listen as Eric ... Read More