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Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; This is the second post in a four-part series on why Open Source Puppet users have made the decision to move to Puppet Enterprise. If you’re considering making this change, read on for pros and cons!As more and more businesses are moving from Open Source Puppet (OSP) to Puppet Enterprise (PE), they are experiencing multiple benefits. In this blog series, we’re exploring the biggest benefits we hear from customers about their experience moving from OSP to PE. One of the most common questions we get is: Is PE just OSP with GUI and ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Building community at PuppetHey there! I’m really looking forward to seeing you at Puppetize Digital 2021.One of my favorite parts of working for Puppet and participating in our ecosystem is the rich and engaging community. From the early days when I was asking more questions than I could ever dream of answering, to now where I've somehow become an expert and an authority on some topics, this group of wonderful human beings has been as friendly and helpful as one could ever ask for. Along the way, I've had some amazing opportunities to ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Visualize your infrastructure inventory with Estate ReportingToday, it’s difficult to compile a list of all the managed infrastructure you have across your global estate. It’s even more difficult to collect all of the properties and values that make up that infrastructure, such as operating systems, enterprise licenses, networks, disks, mount points, data centers, regions, patch states, hypervisors, and so much more. Nevertheless, it’s ever more critical to have this information at your fingertips. What if you could easily gain insight into all of the significant facts across your infrastructure and share this data ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; The Puppet Developer Kit was launched in 2017 to help our users develop high quality modules faster and over the years, it has seen regular development towards that goal.It was designed to be a single install that would provide everything you needed to write, lint, test and publish a Puppet module — and for the most part, that's what it did.What workedThe PDK did exactly what it set out to do. It enabled users of Puppet and its ecosystem — regardless of experience level — to create Modules that were testable, deployable, and ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Why I joined PuppetHi, I’m Chip Childers and I’ve just joined Puppet as Chief Architect. You likely don’t know me, so let me tell you a little about myself: I’ve been working in large-scale computing and open source software for more than twenty years. For the past five years, I was CTO and then Executive Director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, an open source PaaS created to make developers’ lives easier. While I started my career as a web developer, during the heyday of the late 1990s internet boom, I’ve been fortunate to ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; For the second year running, Puppetize Digital will be hosted three times in three regional time zones: San Francisco (PDT), London (BST), and Sydney (AEST). Join us in the time zone most convenient for you, or attend all three!Puppetize Digital 2021 is dedicated to the people at the center of automation. With workshops, demos, and community discussions happening three times over the course of two days, there’s something for everyone no matter your role and no matter where you are in the world. Puppetize Digital agenda highlightsThis year’s Puppetize Digital will kick off ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; This is the first post in a four-part series on why Open Source Puppet users have made the decision to move to Puppet Enterprise. If you’re considering making this change, read on for pros and cons!As more and more businesses are moving from Open Source Puppet (OSP) to Puppet Enterprise (PE), they are experiencing multiple benefits. In this blog series, we’re exploring the biggest benefits we hear from customers about their experience moving from OSP to PE. One of the most common questions we get is: Is PE just OSP with GUI and ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; HashiCorp Terraform is an open source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that is widely used to deploy cloud infrastructure in the public cloud, such as AWS and Azure, along with on-premises VMware vSphere environments. One of the challenges is developing a method for bootstrapping the instances with configuration management agents such as the Puppet Enterprise agent. In this blog post we cover a simple and easy way to install the Puppet Enterprise agent on Azure virtual machines — both Linux and Windows — provisioned with HashiCorp Terraform. We’re assuming for this blog that ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; In December 2012, we surveyed over 4,000 IT Operations professionals and Developers to gain a better understanding of the state of DevOps today. Until now, most of our information about DevOps has been largely anecdotal: We’ve all heard the stories about large WebOps shops outrunning their competition and start-ups experiencing four-digit growth while touting DevOps as their competitive advantage. DevOps is changing the way organizations operate in a good way, and for the first time we have the data to prove it.The survey results revealed that DevOps is not just for WebOps shops ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; This blog is the fourth in a four-part series on infrastructure automation for government agencies that are modernizing digital systems while grappling with budget and staffing constraints and the challenges of COVID-19. Read the third post here. For government agencies, continuous modernization is quickly becoming the norm. And, in light of COVID-19, modernizing in cloud environments is now a mission-critical imperative.This type of change isn’t a surprise for agency IT administrators, despite the significant acceleration of the timelines. However, the challenge set seems to grow daily. It’s more complicated than ever to ensure ... Read More