Category: puppet

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Lindsey Smith; I’m happy to announce that Puppet Enterprise-only modules are now more widely available for use and now have public code repositories! There have been Puppet modules for use with Puppet Enterprise only for a long time, such as the Microsoft SQL Server and VMware vSphere modules. For these modules we consistently got two pieces of feedback:First is that it’s too hard to get the module code anywhere but a licensed Puppet Enterprise master. If you are trialling Puppet Enterprise or want to run them locally, in CI or with Bolt apply it’s a ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Tim Zonca; Today we’re pleased to announce that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named John Schwan to its prestigious list of 2019 Channel Chiefs. The top IT channel leaders included on this list continually strive to drive growth and revenue in their organization through their channel partners.Congratulations to our own John Schwan, and to the other channel leaders who made the list! John Schwan Vice president, global partner sales and programsLinkedIn John Schwan has over 16 years of experience in indirect partner sales. John is responsible for the overall Global Partner Ecosystem ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Carl Caum; A few days ago we released Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise 2.3. I’m so incredibly proud of our team and the work delivered with this release. It’s mind blowing to see these enhancements in place and even more exciting to know that we addressed so much of what our users wanted in such a short amount of time.Aside from the number of enhancements and a super great new feature, spoiler alert, “Message Center”, we’ve dramatically reduced the amount of time it takes to get up and running with Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Ben Ford; We're all familiar with Puppet's main forte; that of managing configuration for computers, servers, cloud instances, etc. But as with any tool, community members often… color outside the lines.Carrying on with our community spotlight series, this episode highlights one of those unusual usages. Corey Osman started this project by using Puppet to manage tiny IoT devices but ended up building a whole management framework out of Puppet and Bolt technologies. Let's get started and hear his story. Today's musical intro was recorded by Manny, a software engineer on our hosted services team. Ben ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Nick Maludy; You've been iterating on some code and finally have that new feature working. You submit a Pull Request, there are a few comments that you address quickly then the PR gets merged. What happens next? It's time for deployment. Read on if you're interested in learning how Bolt can be used to deploy your application.Background My name is Nick Maludy and i’m the manager of the DevOp team at Encore Technologies. Encore is a Managed Services Provider that focuses on automating IT and business processes for large enterprises. Why do we use Puppet ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Alanna Brown; In our 2018 State of DevOps Report, we surveyed over 3,000 IT and development professionals around the world. Our analysis revealed five stages of DevOps evolution, and the critical practices at each stage that help you get to the next phase of your journey. Additionally, we found that five foundational practices had the greatest impact on the DevOps evolutionary journey.From previous reports, we already know that DevOps practices predict IT and organizational performance. The 2018 State of DevOps Report takes this one step further by providing a prescriptive and pragmatic approach to adopting ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Katie Abbott; Today, we announced Yvonne Wassenaar as our CEO. Yvonne brings deep experience in cloud computing and enterprise go-to-market acceleration, having held key leadership positions at Airware, New Relic and VMware. We are so excited to have Yvonne join the team to lead our continued market expansion in the rapidly growing Infrastructure-as-a-Service space.I recently sat down with Yvonne to ask her a few questions as she joins our team. Here’s what she had to say: Katie: A Puppet tradition is that each new employee shares something about themselves which has nothing to do with ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Andrew Nhem; Since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started making news in 2008, CERN has become a household name – and not just among science enthusiasts. Responsible for a network of half-a-dozen particle accelerators, CERN has been providing the world with cutting-edge science and research since it was founded in the 1950s. Discovery of the Higgs boson or “God particle” led to two CERN scientists, Peter Higgs and François Englert, receiving the Nobel Prize for physics in 2013.There are about 2,500 scientific, technical, and administrative staff members at CERN. They also host about 12,000 users, ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Yasmin Rajabi; Bolt now has a logo, and we are excited to share it! But first, a little context. When we first launched Bolt, it was based on user feedback and conversations like, “It’d be great if we had a tool that could do xyz…” As a team, we’re always trying to make it easier to consume Puppet and to meet the needs of our users, so we built Bolt.Little did we know, or maybe we did, just how powerful it would become. Bolt is an open-source, agentless automation tool, that offers the fastest way ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Patrick Grant; Hi there, I’m Patrick, a support engineer working out of Puppet's Belfast office. I’ve been with the company for just over a year and one of my main objectives for that first 12 months was to become a Puppet Certified Professional. It’s a requirement for all support engineers so it was something I really wanted to get checked off as soon as possible. Within our Belfast support team, we’re on a bit of hot streak, with the last five engineers all passing on their first attempt. Nothing like some added pressure to really ... Read More