Category: puppet

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; The lookup function will be run on the agent and the value of $d will be resolved when the catalog is applied. This will make a call to https://vault.hostname:8200/v1/secret/test and wrap the result in strings marked as sensitive, which prevents the value from being visibly logged.Secrets management is more than just adding a few controls around sensitive configuration properties. It is a way to keep secrets secure, not only as they are stationary within your infrastructure but also when they are in transit across your network. IT practitioners should be able to create ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Most of you are familiar with the roles and profiles method of writing and classifying Puppet code. However, the roles and profiles method doesn’t have to exist only in your control repository. In fact, as I’ve been developing Puppet code centered around compliance, I’ve found that adapting the roles and profiles method into a design pattern to Puppet modules makes the code more auditable, reusable, and maintainable!For the uninitiated, the roles and profiles method, or roles and profiles pattern, allows you to separate resources and logic in your Puppet code from the actual ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; We are thrilled to announce the winners of our Channel Partners of the Year Awards. These awards honor key partners who continue to deliver on customer excellence and innovative solutions. Each award winner has provided deep technical knowledge and expertise in building solutions around cloud migration, DevOps acceleration, and security and compliance needs at scale. Winner: 2020 Partner of the Year - AMER - AHEAD, Inc.Ahead has identified Puppet as strategic for their success and they understand the value of our product, and the strength in what we deliver as a key driver ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; We get it -- structural change is hard, and it goes so much deeper than just adopting some tools. It’s adopting a new method. When there is a lack of alignment between teams and an inability to push change throughout the organization in a coordinated manner, organizations are constantly firefighting and are being reactive, not proactive. We can address that. Focus on people, processes & automationWe know that success requires equal investment in people, processes and automation, and our Scaling DevOps Service offerings help you plan those investments appropriately. Our DevOps experts will ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Compliance vs. securityThe first two posts in our compliance blog series focused on managing compliance through automation. In this third post, we take a step back to explore a more foundational — but no less important — topic: What’s the difference between compliance and security? Is compliant infrastructure secure infrastructure?People often talk about compliance and security as though they’re one and the same. To a certain extent, this makes sense; there is a lot of overlap between the two concepts. But compliant infrastructure is not necessarily secure infrastructure, and vice versa. I’ll use ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; SummarySolarWinds' widely-used Orion IT platform has been the subject of a supply-chain compromise by an unidentified threat actor. The attack was discovered in December 2020, but it appears to have begun in March 2020 when the attacker used trojan malware to open a backdoor on SolarWinds customers around the world. This malware was named SUNBURST by researchers, but may also be referred to as “Solorigate” or simply the “SolarWinds compromise.”Texas-based SolarWinds’ customers include US government agencies and the majority of Fortune 500 companies. Given the nature of the affected organizations, SUNBURST may prove ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Hello, Puppet friends! It’s been a few months since we rolled out the latest major version of the Puppet platform, bumping PuppetDB, Puppet Server and Puppet Agent to “7.0.0.” First, we’d like to extend our gratitude to our vibrant Puppet community, who helped us immensely in locating and fixing some annoying bugs that managed to sneak through the release. We promptly provided follow-up releases, so be sure to check out the latest available versions for your operating system. Even though we strived to make most of the changes backwards-compatible, there are some breaking ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; 2020 was a year unlike any other, filled with more challenges than we ever imagined possible. Within those challenges were opportunities that validated what we at Puppet knew all along: infrastructure automation is absolutely critical to business success. As we continue to accelerate Puppet’s market impact, we are making strategic additions and promotions within the Puppet family: Jaime Segura has joined to lead our business development and alliances strategy while Carol Wilder has been promoted to Vice President of Product. Both Jaime and Carol are transformative leaders with deep industry expertise and skill ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; What is Facter?Facter is a cross platform system profiling tool. It gathers nuggets of information about a system such as its hostname, IP address and operating system. We call these nuggets of information facts and they are used by other Puppet products like Puppet, Puppet Server and Bolt to make decisions in their automation process. You can extend Facter by writing custom facts or external facts and use them in Puppet manifests.You’ll find this blog post useful when migrating from older versions of Puppet to Puppet 7. The new features allow a granular ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Bhaskar Roy; In my 20+ years in the tech space, I’ve noticed that many businesses face the same challenges when it comes to integration. Most notably, they’re increasingly dissatisfied with the traditional approach. It’s too technical, not agile enough, and can’t properly address emerging use cases like IoT or AI. Now, integration-platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) tools have emerged to help businesses connect their cloud apps in addition to ground apps, but it’s not always enough. Modern businesses need something that is agile and digital-native, easy enough for business users, and feature-rich to allow for AI and ... Read More