Category: puppet

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; Life insurance purchasing rates are at their lowest in 50 years. The process of purchasing life insurance is notoriously complicated. It requires a lengthy application process, health checks, and can take weeks or months for approval. A new digital life insurance startup is looking to revolutionize the life insurance purchasing process. The company has introduced an easy online application process with immediate approval, which relies on innovative, custom software that can underwrite insurance instantly. Their goal is to disrupt the traditional life insurance market and appeal to younger consumers with a transparent, on-demand purchasing process ... 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: Nik Anderson; Fully automating the lifecycle of your Puppet module -- it's the stuff dreams are made of. Okay, maybe not so much for the general public, but if you're a module developer, this is an exciting prospect!We're pleased to announce a new collection of Forge API endpoints that allow for complete programmatic module management. What does that mean? It's now possible to log in to your Forge account, create an API key, and use that key to publish, delete, or deprecate any of your modules directly through the Forge API. Let’s get going. Current ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Alanna Brown; Editor’s note: The 2019 State of DevOps survey closes on 13 June. If you haven’t already, please take it today.When I started the State of DevOps survey over seven years ago, the landscape looked very different than it does today. The organizations we were working with were struggling with deployments, the functional boundary where Dev and Ops painfully collide. The pressure to deploy faster and more frequently was a big driver behind DevOps. As more organizations started adopting DevOps and practices became codified and broadly shared, we saw the low performers start to ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Davin Hanlon; As part of our increasing focus on network automation we have been working on a module for automating Palo Alto Next Generation Firewalls. The module was built using the latest Puppet tooling for modules, including Puppet Development Kit and the Resource API. The module works without having to install an agent on the firewall under management. The module communicates with the firewall via the PAN-OS XML API. The module is also the first network device module from Puppet that supports Bolt’s remote transports. This means that the module works with both Bolt and ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Katie Lawhorn; We here at Puppet have just released Puppet Enterprise 2019.1, and we’re super excited about the many ways that this new version has advanced our user experience. Amidst the many improvements lies a completely new feature that we believe deserves some special attention.This feature will dramatically improve the agentless workflows within the application, and serves to unlock a new world of enablement possibilities for delegating access to managing infrastructure without the use of the Puppet agent. A little background Since the release of 2019.0.1, Puppet Enterprise users have had the ability to execute ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Nigel Kersten; TL;DR: Take 15 min to complete the 2019 State of DevOps Survey!Last year we did something different with our annual State of DevOps Report, based on consistent feedback we’ve heard over the years. We gathered these insights from folks in enterprise environments attempting to use DevOps practices to improve their software delivery lifecycle and the reliability of their infrastructure. This feedback was that while our industry has a reasonable idea of what it takes to make a team successful using DevOps practices, most people are still struggling trying to level up their entire ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Ben Ford; Join us for our two-day annual user conference, Puppetize PDX back in our hometown of Portland on 9-10 October. What’s PDX, you ask? It’s Portland’s airport code and the unofficial nickname for the land of Blue Star Donuts and the world’s largest independently owned bookstore.We’re pleased to share our initial schedule, featuring these great speakers. Also, don’t miss out on early bird pricing! Save $100 by registering before 15 June. We heard your feedback Based on all the great attendee feedback from last year's conference, dubbed Puppetize Live, this year's event will be ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Eric Sorenson; Introducing LyraAs of today, Lyra, a new open source project sponsored by Puppet, has hit its general availability milestone. In this blog post, I want to take the time to explain why we are working on Lyra, the problems Lyra addresses, and its approach to solving them. If you've talked to us about it at DockerCon, seen a demo at KubeCon, or read through the README already, you can jump straight to the download instructions. The "elevator pitch" for Lyra goes like this: it's an open source workflow engine for orchestrating cloud-native deployments ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Davin Hanlon; The modules team at Puppet have been working on a new project called Litmus. It is a framework for acceptance testing Puppet modules. We are in the process of testing this out with our supported modules, and MOTD is the first module that’s been converted. See the commit here containing the associated changes.Litmus provides 5 main functions. It allows you to: Provision nodes. Docker and an internal Puppet tool (vmpooler) are currently supported, but this capability is extensible and more will be added to the provision repo over time. Install the agent. Get ... Read More