Category: puppet

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Written in conjunction with Tino Vazquez from the OpenNebula Project, and cross-posted on the OpenNebula blog. Puppet is used for managing the infrastructure for many IaaS software packages, including Eucalyptus, OpenStack, and OpenNebula. OpenNebula is an IaaS manager which can not only manage a large amount of different virtualization and public cloud platforms, it can also emulate the API’s provided by EC2 and OCCI. It's great for creating private and public clouds, as well as hybrids of the two. Puppet Labs (or, more specifically, Ken Barber) has developed a powerful integration between OpenNebula ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; The Puppet CloudFormation Face integrates Puppet Enterprise (PE) with CloudFormation so that users can reliably create entire Puppet Enterprise “stacks” in Amazon’s EC2 from their workstation. A “stack” refers to a collection of launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) “resources” that can be specified as a “template” in CloudFormation’s declarative json modeling language. Templates support a wide range of AWS resources, including: EC2 instances, security groups, credentials, as well as a host of other resources. EC2 meta-data and user data can be associated with AWS resources in a CloudFormation template. This meta-data allows CloudFormation ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; With the launch of Puppet Enterprise 2.0, it’s easy to get lost in the scale of what we’ve enabled sysadmins to do. Besides shipping a world-class configuration management tool, we now make it easy to create managed servers from thin air. In addition, we’re providing command line tools that take fresh OS installs directly to production-ready application servers with no manual intervention, monitoring and reporting for when your configuration drifts, and a web interface that allows you to inspect the current state of resources across your entire population—fast. For all the things that ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; With the release of Puppet Enterprise 2.0, Puppet Labs has added cloud provisioning capabilities with support for some of the most popular public and private cloud offerings including Amazon EC2 and VMware. PE 2.0 allows you to quickly provision virtual machines and start managing them with Puppet right away. Getting Started The following set of “micro” tutorials will show you how to leverage Puppet Enterprise 2.0 cloud provisioning capabilities on a public cloud (Amazon EC2). In order to get up and running you will need access to an Amazon’s EC2 account. Please note ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Why do we want configuration management? There are plenty of reasons, but at the core of them is that we want to streamline the configuration and deployment of systems. We want this process to be repeatable, well-understood, and predictable. We want to make it deterministic. Determinism — the idea that a process should result in the same outcome every time it is applied — is not a new idea, but it’s also not one that system administrators apply to their daily work. Can you prove that the bash script you just wrote to ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; It's come time for us to pick a code name for our next release of Puppet. If you help develop Puppet you may be fairly familiar with our naming system, but for those who haven't yet contributed to the open source project, we name each version of Puppet after a Muppet. We use code names because it gives us the flexibility to decide the maturity of a release. By setting features at "Telly" we've not committed to "Telly" being a major release or a point release. The code name allows us to holistically ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; This post is the second in a series on Live Management, new in Puppet Enterprise 2.0, a capability that lets you visually discover, clone, and manage resources across your entire deployment, all through the graphical interface (GUI). In the first post in this series we covered how to make quick changes across your infrastructure by browsing and cloning resources. Once you have used the browsing and cloning capabilities to establish a desired configuration, the next step is to Puppetize your infrastructure by building a set of manifests. This process is covered in our ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Puppet Camp Europe 2011 will be held in the capital of the Netherlands (also known as "the Venice of the North"): Amsterdam. A land where people eat cheese and wear clogs, and vehicles with more than two wheels are outlawed, right? Amsterdam is a city with lots of things to see and do, but also perfect for a relaxing stroll. If you like exploring the unknown, it is well worth it to book a few extra nights before or after Puppet Camp to enjoy Amsterdam during springtime. We’ll try to showcase some of ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; We're pleased to announce that Puppet Camp EU will be hosted at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam on April 28th and 29th. The Early Bird Registration is available until March 5th. Sponsorship packages include tickets and offer the benefits of sponsorship for as little as an additional $150. This year, in addition to a track of speakers, we'll offer hosted breakout sessions, unconference sessions, a hosted code sprint room, and a bug squash room. We're accepting submissions for eight 40 minute presentations, and we're looking for a handful of volunteers to give ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Citrix Systems offers a wide array of virtualization, networking, and SaaS solutions to users in any location and on any device. This large enterprise software company runs an IT infrastructure that is constantly under migration, with many systems in different stages of development. Citrix needed a way to keep a closer eye on their machines—to ensure they were properly configured, exert fine-grained control over system configurations, and accurately track and report the status of any given system at any given time. Puppet Labs consulting was able to offer a solution with large-scale configuration ... Read More