Category: puppet

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Dimitri Tischenko; Due to its declarative DSL and resource abstraction, Puppet is an excellent solution for enforcing compliance across any server estate. There are modules on the forge providing automatic hardening. Other modules make it easy to enforce best practices in middleware configurations. Configuration drift is reported as corrective changes to Puppet Enterprise Console. The world is a happy place.More and more organisations are required to scan their infrastructure and determine whether it complies with standardized security and hardening benchmarks, such as CIS, NIST, PCI or BSI (see links at end of article for more ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Lucy Wyman; Hello, fearless reader! In case you missed it, we hosted a workshop for the Contributor Summit Online event to introduce best practices for writing Puppet Tasks. The workshop was a speedy general-overview, and I want to dive deeper into writing robust tasks and how the helper modules for Python and Ruby that we just released help you do just that.What’s Puppet Tasks? In case you’re new to Puppet Tasks, they’re scripts with optional metadata that you can run on target machines in your infrastructure, allowing you to make as-needed changes to remote systems ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Ben Ford; The Contributor Summit Project Month was a resounding success! Eight projects were started and six hit their goals and made releases. I'll tell you more about those in a moment, but for now — just what the heck is this project month anyway?Transitioning from the PuppetConf format to Puppetize Live meant that we had an opportunity to take a fresh look at how Contributor Summit was run. In previous years we hosted all day summits, with short and intensive hack sessions. These were great fun and good for getting one's hands dirty with ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Omri Gazitt; We’re excited to share that Puppet has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. As the cloud continues to plays a transformative role in the success of shifts to continuous delivery and DevOps, we’re rapidly seeing our customers adopting cloud-native architectures, where applications are designed (or redesigned) using a microservices architecture and packaged as a set of containers running in a container orchestration system like Kubernetes. This approach unlocks the true magic of the cloud, with benefits like agility, more rapid development cycles, scalability and greater performance.As CNCF members, we’re looking forward to engaging ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Paula Muir; So how do GitHub Labels streamline the Puppet Module release process you ask? As many contributors may have noticed, there are a few GitHub labels that now exist across most of our supported modules in GitHub. If you have a module that is pdk-compliant, there is no reason why you couldn’t make use of this too! It is not limited to supported modules.This article will help you learn how to make the most of GitHub labels during your Puppet Module development. How the labels work with module development These labels are used for ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Dimitri de Swart; At VMworld 2018 US, VMware upped their game in the IT Automation and DevOps space by announcing three new Cloud Automation Services, Cloud Assembly, Service Broker and Code Stream. Cloud Assembly provides an abstraction layer across multiple clouds using a Cloud API which makes it possible to create declarative templating constructs, which VMware calls Blueprints. Blueprints can deploy cloud agnostic resources (compute, storage, network etc.) across clouds. At this moment Cloud Assembly supports Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, VMware Cloud on AWS and vSphere (with or without NSX-V/T). But others will soon be ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Ben Ford; Each year the Puppet community puts our collective heads together and selects some outstanding community members to recognize, and this year was no different. We had a lot of really great nominees and a few clear leaders. I'm sure that none of you will be surprised by who we selected. This year it seems that the focus was on some of the non-technical parts of being a good community member, like encouraging others or building a welcoming environment. Each of our winners embodies that ethos and is a real positive presence to have.The ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Alanna Brown; If you’re wondering where to start with DevOps, our 2018 State of DevOps Report provides a ton of prescriptive guidance based on real-world experience and backed by data from over 3,000 respondents to help you get started on your journey and achieve success faster.Our research also identified five foundational practices that have a big impact on the entire DevOps evolutionary journey. Those practices are: Reusing deployment patterns. Using a configuration management tool. Allowing a team to configure monitoring and alerting for the service it operates. Reusing testing patterns for building applications or services ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Daniel Carabas; We recently announced the new AWS module. It’s automatically generated from the AWS specifications and offers a number of tasks to interact with the Amazon EKS API, allowing you to create and manage Kubernetes clusters with Puppet:Create: amazon_aws:: eks_aws_create_cluster Delete: amazon_aws:: eks_aws_delete_cluster Describe: amazon_aws:: eks_aws_describe_cluster List: amazon_aws:: eks_aws_list_clusters In this blog post, we’ll walk through how to create a Kubernetes cluster with Puppet Bolt. Setting up your Kubernetes cluster Follow these steps to create a Kubernetes cluster on AWS. Install the new AWS module by following these steps, and Puppet Bolt by following ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Yasmin Rajabi; Getting started with automation can be tricky. Often times, it includes coordination from both a technical and an organizational standpoint, and then the upfront work of adopting a new tool. If you’re just getting started with automation or maybe you have a simple project, like a list of hosts that needs to be managed now, and not later, you need something lightweight and simple, with little overhead.When we announced Puppet Enterprise 2019, we were extremely excited to offer new tools to help customers accelerate their time to automation on day one. This new ... Read More