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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: ; What I learned from and appreciated in these talksFirst of all, I really loved the emphasis on how important it is to talk to each other, be open, and feeling empathy for the other person’s (and other team's) job challenges. It’s hard to build and maintain infrastructure and software, and you're not the only one finding it difficult. Few people are trying to make your job harder, and it's important to remember this, especially when things go wrong.I also paid attention to Ben raising the issue of how difficult it really is to ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Of course you know The Walt Disney Company. It's one of the world's largest media companies, and has created some of the world’s most loved and respected brands. From its earliest days, Disney has treated technology as an important strategic asset. As it moved online, the company recognized that embracing leading-edge technology could give its customers — or “guests” in the Disney parlance — a more delightful interactive experience, and deepen their connection to the Disney brand. Jason Cox, director of systems engineering at Disney, delivered a talk at the DevOps Enterprise Summit ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Sometimes you need to flip quickly and easily from one Puppet version to the next. For example, you may need to test new Puppet versions before an upgrade; identify the source of behavioral changes after an upgrade; or be able to definitively track bugs to a specific change.Manually installing and upgrading specific versions is tedious, and also fails to provide the level of granularity required by tasks like identifying regressions in the Puppet source code. A much more flexible approach is to run Puppet from a Git clone of the source code, which ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Creating a Docker Dockerfile to build an application is pretty easy. But what if you already have a large collection of Puppet modules (or Chef cookbooks) that you want to use to build your applications? We’re going to see how easy it is to make use of those modules inside a Dockerfile.We’re first going to build an image that has Docker apps with Puppet installed. We’ll also add Tim Sharpe’s very cool Librarian-Puppet to the image. Librarian-Puppet is a bundler for your Puppet modules. You can use it to select and install modules ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Puppet is often described as "model-based" configuration management, which enables some pretty amazing feats of systems administration: simulating the effects of a potential change across your infrastructure, detecting dependency loops, letting you audit and trace every event on a machine, and so forth. But as more people find out about Puppet and start using it to solve their problems, we're continually looking for ways to smooth out the learning curve and help new users get value from it as quickly as possible. One of the first stumbling blocks people run into as they ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Can DevOps work in a large enterprise laden with legacy systems? Does it have value in finance, a heavily regulated environment where any company's transactions can affect the business of others in the industry? Jim Bird, CTO at BIDS Trading L.P., writes about where he thinks DevOps can help — and where it can’t — in his article, Making DevOps Work Outside WebOps, published at JavaCodeGeeks.com.Jim fully endorses the most important mission of DevOps: bringing developers, IT operations people and business managers together to address important issues in their companies:configuration management improving software ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; It's Friday and we're emptying our pockets of links and bric-a-brac before heading home. This week we've got cloud stuff, Mac stuff, sweaty stuff, and old (but good) stuff. Enjoy! Like Goldilocks, Were Goldilocks Still Into for LoopsCitrix says that VMware doesn't really get the cloud, and that Amazon doesn't really get old things. So the company's cannily positioning itself between out-of-touch Gen X'ers and self-absorbed millennials. According to Network World, Citrix says "its cloud platform --which is based off the Apache CloudStack project -- can span both private on-premises deployments and public ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; This article is republished from the Rackspace Developers blog with the kind permission of our friends from Rackspace, who wanted to share how their customers can manage Cloud Servers with Puppet open source. Many of our customers use configuration management packages to manage their cloud infrastructure. These packages include Opscode's Chef, CFEngine, Red Hat's Spacewalk, and Puppet Labs' Puppet. Here, I'll dive into Puppet to show you how easy it is to manage Cloud Servers using a configuration management solution. We're going to create two servers: a puppet master and a client server ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; For an updated look at CloudFormation and Puppet, read about the integration work posted on January 6, 2012: Using CloudFormation to Build Out Fully Functional Stacks of Puppet Enterprise. Seen all the buzz about AWS CloudFormation? We're interested in it too. Contrary to the on-going speculation of its impact on Puppet or Chef, we see numerous ways in which CloudFormation and Puppet complement each other quite well. Zach Leslie recently pulled together a brief tutorial on bootstrapping AWS CloudFormation with Puppet. Just follow the four steps and the code samples in the tutorial ... Read More