Category: puppet

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Carl Caum; IT organizations often have to balance between moving faster to keep up with their business needs while providing safety to keep the business running. IT operations is responsible for defining the requirements to ensure infrastructure changes are safe. At the same time, other infrastructure and application deployment teams need to define the delivery process that’s right for them and deliver changes at the pace of development.Often, core IT automation teams will gate all changes to any infrastructure environment, including pre-production environments in order to maintain safety. This greatly reduces IT throughput as core ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Lucy Wyman; Editor’s note: This post was originally published on lucywyman.me. We are republishing it with Lucy’s permission.Terraform is a cloud provisioning tool that's great at managing low-level infrastructure components such as compute instances, storage, and networking. While Terraform is great at creating the infrastructure you need, it's not great at managing the state of your resources over time or enforcing certain states. Nathan Handler described it in a talk at OSCON 2018 as a way to get boxes that you can then go fill with the users, files, applications, and tools you need. Image ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Kara Sowles; Who's joining us for Contributor Summit in Budapest this June? We are getting pretty excited. And while we all focus on the technical content, the workshops, the collaboration sessions - there's something else hiding in the back of our minds. Budapest. Hungary.So, to get it out of our systems so we can focus, let's talk about what we're secretly dreaming of right now. I'm an Atlas Obscura fiend so the first place I trawled for recommendations was the side dedicated to the odder side. The Miniversum I was too embarrassed to ask our ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Davin Hanlon; Puppet has a Kubernetes module that can be used to install and configure Kubernetes — and we're pleased to let you know that it was recently certified with CNCF as a Kubernetes Installer.The module installs and configures Kubernetes, allowing the deployment of Kubernetes clusters to be managed using either open source Puppet or Puppet Enterprise. Puppet will maintain the state of your Kubernetes cluster automatically. Using this module will help you deploy Kubernetes quicker, using the Puppet DSL to define the state. It is fully open source and community contributions are welcome. The ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: David Hollinger; If you're planning on attending the Puppet Contributor Summit this year, 4-5 June in Budapest, I'm excited to announce that Vox Pupuli will be hosting a special social event on 3 June 2019 at the Budapest Pinball Museum! We welcome all attendees to enjoy some food and drinks and get to know our fellow community.While we don’t have all the details locked down yet, we'll be there in the late afternoon/evening when we hope to catch most everyone as they arrive in the city. The Pinball Museum is one of Budapest’s top attractions ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Lucy Wyman; Alex Dreyer and I, both engineers on the Bolt team, demoed an advanced Bolt plan to configure and deploy metrics visualization using Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana, all via Puppet Modules. We were lucky enough to be able to share this awesome demo with a variety of folks during our #vBrownBag session.In case you missed it… After showing off some of the more powerful Bolt features, we took a step back and explained all of the Bolt components that came together to create the plan, including apply blocks, inventory files, and hiera data. It ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Ben Ford; One of Puppet’s big strengths is declarative automation – you model the desired end state of your infrastructure and Puppet does the hard work of enforcing it. This concept is quite powerful and has become the industry standard for configuration management. But sometimes your workflow doesn't quite fit into that pattern. Sometimes you really do need to deploy point-in-time changes, or mix imperative and declarative approaches together in a single workflow.With Bolt, we've learned from the lessons of Puppet and used those to design the next generation of infrastructure automation. Listen as Eric ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Alexa Sevilla; I love customer stories. As a product marketer, I find it incredibly interesting to learn and understand how customers use our technologies, and of course, when we get to share them externally, I see that as a super bonus!While most of our customer stories have similar use cases, (ie. they looked to Puppet to eliminate the soul-crushing parts of their job), each story is unique in its own way, and I just love that. How Splunk Cloud tackles automation is no different. It offers a unique story of re-thinking the industry-old provisioning approach ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Eric Sorenson; For years, devops practitioners and systems administrators have toiled in the crepuscular semi-darkness of the domain-specific language. Purpose-built for managing infrastructure as code, DSLs like the Puppet Language provided power and expressiveness, but required that users read documentation and understand their goals before beginning work.I'm happy to report that those days are over! We are entering a new era, moving from infrastructure-as-code, through the predawn phase of infrastructure-as-data, and into the piercing daylight of data-as-code. Bolt now supports YAML, the emerging industry standard for encoding complex configuration as structured data, to author orchestration ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Lucy Wyman; Alex Dreyer and I, both engineers on the Puppet Bolt team, demoed an advanced Bolt plan to configure and deploy metrics visualization using Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana, all via Puppet Modules. We were lucky enough to be able to share this awesome demo with a variety of folks during our #vBrownBag session.In case you missed it… After showing off some of the more powerful Bolt features, we took a step back and explained all of the Bolt components that came together to create the plan, including apply blocks, inventory files, and hiera data ... Read More