Category: chef

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

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: Cloudwards. Author: James Konik; Budding chefs need inspiration, and there’s nowhere better to get it than MasterChef. The show has been motivating us for decades with its creative dishes and celebration of all things culinary. Finding a way to watch it isn’t straightforward, though, so we’re going to cogitate, ruminate and try to figure out how to watch MasterChef. The show features contestants competing to make the tastiest meals they can and complete cooking challenges. A team of expert judges decides the winner at the end. MasterChef began in the UK, but the format has spread around the world ... 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; We asked Deepak and Nigel to share some reasons they are excited about Contributor Summit this year and give us a preview of their opening talk. Remember these fresh faces? This was in 2011 at the very first Puppet Camp in Amsterdam. And look at them now. A lot has changed, but these two are still the heart of the Puppet community. They’ll be sharing the stage to talk about all the useful stuff we’ve been putting out, and past performance indicates, crack obscure jokes and digress into non sequiturs. They’ll also be ... Read More