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Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; This blog is the last in a four-part series about how Puppet can help government agencies meet compliance and security requirements. Read the third post here.Government agencies are facing a rising need for changes to their IT infrastructure. This need is becoming even more urgent as they continue to migrate operations to the cloud. Leveraging modern cloud applications and resources within an existing legacy agency environment requires IT agility to maintain the balance of security while keeping pace with an agency’s mission. As the definition of the “traditional government workplace” continues to morph ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; This blog is the third in a four-part series about how Puppet can help government agencies meet compliance and security requirements. Read the second post here.Government agency IT departments know that migrating applications to the cloud can improve efficiency, increase visibility, and reduce costs. They also recognize the value in keeping some operation resources on-premises. This shift to hybrid operations creates complexity and a need for government IT infrastructures to accommodate many different types of resources. But how can teams efficiently manage a complex hybrid infrastructure while ensuring their agencies’ Zero Trust security ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; DevSecOps in government environmentsThis blog is the second in a four-part series about how Puppet can help government agencies meet compliance and security requirements. Read the first post here. Zero Trust is a strategy created to combat system intrusions through a “never trust, always verify” model. DevSecOps is a collaborative software development strategy that integrates development, security, and operations practices into a continuously evolving lifecycle. Both methodologies are currently being adopted by government agencies today for different (but complementary) reasons. Learn how to leverage DevSecOps as part of your Zero Trust approach to ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; I’m delighted to be speaking at this year’s PlatformCon on June 10. If you know me at all, you know I’m a devoted proponent of platform teams as a fantastic model for DevOps at scale. I hope you’ll join my talk to find out why – but here’s a little teaser, just to whet your appetite.Platform engineering is rapidly becoming the de facto approach for success with DevOps at scale. While not having a prescriptive model allowed DevOps to flourish in a grassroots sense, it ran into issues once it hit enterprise IT, ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Getting started with RelayRelay’s inputFile capability is handy because it allows you to use familiar programming languages to get custom solutions working quickly. Using an inputFile with Relay is as easy as writing a script in bash, Python, or Powershell, and storing it in a remote Internet-accessible repository like GitHub. Let’s see how Relay enhances our daily driver skillset to solve problems quickly and reliably with minimal code. In this blog post, we’re going to use an inputFile attribute with a Relay step to solve the very real problem of replacing a pair ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Achieving Zero Trust adoption and mission success at the same timeThis blog is the first in a four-part series about how Puppet can help government agencies meet compliance and security requirements. Government agencies have been working diligently to comply with the 2021 Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. The Executive Order (EO) addresses cybersecurity issues by imposing a new series of federal-wide Zero Trust mandates. Agencies were required to submit their plan development and cloud migration path reporting by July and August of 2021, with more deadlines on the horizon. Driving these ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; What is this blog post about? I work on the Solutions Architects team here at Puppet. We are sometimes the first line of defense in solving some of our customers' most challenging or unique problems, and every so often, we see trends in problems that we'd previously considered to be edge cases. For example, customers often ask us two questions: How can we connect external configuration data to Puppet? How can we speed up changing their own configuration for service owners without onboarding them to Git approval processes? These questions (and others) have ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Use pe_status_check to monitor your PE infrastructure and perform preventative maintenancepuppetlabs-pe_status_check is a new supported module for Puppet Enterprise. It provides a series of indicators of system status that the Puppet Support team has determined to avoid support incidents or outages. Utilizing this module and the accompanying documentation will allow the user to craft preventative maintence workflows and, should it still be required, increase the quality of information in any support ticket, to help decrease the time to resolution for any incident. Using the module The module pe_status_check is available on the Forge ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Current code deploy behavior in Puppet Enterprise and Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise Your Puppet Enterprise (PE) installation’s primary job is to compile catalogs and send them to agents to be enforced. When you deploy code, all catalog compilation stops and waits for the code deploy to complete. This impacts performance in any installation, and the impact escalates with more frequent code deployments. Code deployments usually increase when you use Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise, making the impacts of stopped catalog compilations even more apparent. Lockless code deploys eliminate the wait We’ve introduced ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Making it easier to use the Puppet Support knowledge base The Puppet Support knowledge base is now public. Puppet customers can read help articles without restrictions. You no longer need to log in to the knowledge base to view articles. The knowledge base includes hundreds of help articles. This includes troubleshooting guides, best practices, and FAQs. They're designed to help you solve your Puppet issues and set you up for success. Why did we do this? Our goal with this change is to make it easy for you to find the help you ... Read More