Category: puppet

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Arwa Jumkawala; What excites our speakers most about Puppetize PDX 2019? We asked a few of our Puppetize PDX speakers to share what excites them most about this year’s conference (9-10 October). Here’s what they said: Nick Maludy (Encore Technologies) "I'm pumped to learn about other people’s problems and how they're using the Puppet tools to solve them. Also looking forward to participating in the Hackathon* on Tuesday hopefully we can spark some ideas or jump start a project!" *The pre-conference Hackathon is on Tuesday 8 October from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Whether you're ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Alberta Bosco; Those of you who have followed Puppet for sometime probably know that Puppet’s mission is to free IT Ops from repetitive, soul-crushing work and enable them to support organizational goals in a more efficient way.In the process of doing so we have learnt a lot from our customers. One of the things we’ve learnt in the past few months is how painful and inefficient their vulnerability management workflow is. The typical workflow for managing vulnerabilities is painful and inefficient. Based on the information we gained from our customers we built this diagram that ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Lindsey Smith; We are happy to announce the availability of the Puppet Plugin for vRealize Orchestrator version 3.2 on the VMware Solution Exchange!This plugin accelerates the delivery and operation of infrastructure by giving you a fully automated, self-service provisioning workflow. Using vRealize Automation, easily create blueprint templates for your VMs, then automatically enable Puppet to configure and continually enforce the desired configurations on those VMs. Your vRealize Automation end users now have access to one-click provisioning of fully configured infrastructure while centrally maintaining continuous visibility and enforcement of machine state. The goal of this release ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Arwa Jumkawala; Portland provides the perfect backdrop for this year’s Puppetize PDXYou probably know that the Puppetize PDX schedule is jam packed with great speakers excited to share their expertise — so today, we also wanted to call out the unsung hero of Puppetize PDX: the city of Portland itself. Portland (or PDX as it’s affectionately referred to by many locals) has something special to offer almost any visitor. Watch this video highlighting the best things to see, eat, and drink within walking distance of Puppetize PDX! (The full list of places is detailed further ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Kenaz Kwa; Today we’re announcing a new product in private beta: Project Nebula. Our objective is to dramatically simplify continuous deployment of cloud native applications and infrastructure by composing the tools and workflows your developers already use into simple, repeatable deployment workflows. As Eric Sorenson (aka @ahpook), Technical Product Manager, talked about in his post: Early adopters of technology like Docker, Kubernetes, and public cloud services have found the many devils hiding in the details. Far from finding infrastructure operations eliminated as a role or discipline, practitioners are now tasked with provisioning complex infrastructure through ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Arwa Jumkawala; The Puppetize PDX full schedule is here! We’re pleased to share the full schedule for our annual user conference, Puppetize PDX, in our hometown, Portland, Oregon; affectionately referred to as PDX (our airport code). Start planning for which sessions you’ll attend now! (Side note: We Portlanders are, perhaps, oddly proud of our airport; the experts at Travel + Leisure agree with our assessment!) Meet Tony, Rob, Melanie, and Alex — our newest speakers! We recently added four new speakers to the lineup! Here’s a preview of what you’ll learn in their sessions: Tony ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Claire Cadman; Automating your work with PowerShell scripts is simple and empowering with Bolt. If you’re not familiar with Bolt, it’s our agentless multi-platform open source tool that allows you to automate tasks on an as-needed basis or as part of a greater orchestration workflow. You can use Bolt to patch and update systems, troubleshoot servers, deploy applications, or stop and restart services.In this blog post we’ll share some of the benefits of using PowerShell and Bolt together, and then walk you through restarting a service with a PowerShell script and Bolt. The power of ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Ben Ford; Last month, we spent two and a half days in Budapest with some of our best community friends. I think the summary of Contributor Summit was the one common complaint I heard: "There was too much good content and it was really hard to decide between workshops!" said everybody. That's a really good problem to have and is the hallmark of a great experience. The key was in how the event was organized. Rather than tightly control the messaging, we simply asked our facilitators to build workshops that spoke to them and to ... Read More

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: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Melissa Casburn; Everybody knows why conferences are great: network, gain new skills, have fun, blah blah blah. You don’t need to be reminded of that stuff, and I don’t need to pitch the agenda because you can read it for yourself.Instead, let’s talk about some lesser-known but equally important reasons you should come to Puppetize PDX this October: 1: Escape from your own office Get away from the meetings, debugging, patching, and everyday toil of your day job (and hopefully learn how to automate some of it away). It’s the same reason we’re all gonna ... Read More