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Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; If you're anything like the rest of us, you're suddenly being asked to make a lot of unplanned infrastructure changes and you haven't been given a lot of time to prepare. You're probably looking into some kind of automation so that you can keep up. Here are some tips on getting started in a way that's less prone to missteps along the way, especially if this is new ground for your team. At the end of the post, I've added a quick tutorial on using Bolt for quick and easy automation wins.Make a ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; The Puppet VS Code extension has been an open source project run with the community since inception in , where it has been housed in the Lingua Pupuli organization in GitHub and in the VS Code Marketplace. The extension was started, and has succeeded, as a place to prove that an integrated developer experience was possible with Visual Studio Code and Puppet tooling.Since it was proving new ground, it moved fast and had many experimental features. The main developers, James Pogran and Glenn Sarti, have determined that the extension is nearly ready for ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; 2019 was a big year for Puppet and I am so proud of our team for the work they’ve done building and bringing value to our customers and community of users. In these challenging times, we are thinking more than ever about the positive impact we can have on the world and how we can help support those in need. I wanted to take the opportunity to talk through some of the company initiatives I am most proud of as a leader and share some news about our leadership team that will help ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Why can’t your InfoSec and IT Ops teams see eye-to-eye?When organizations maintain a division between IT Ops and InfoSec, you end up with different methodologies, tools, and processes. This creates significant issues when remediating vulnerabilities and addressing compliance. Difference in automation toolsFor instance, vulnerabilities can be exposed and exploited at a breakneck pace. To stay on top of this, InfoSec teams use sophisticated tools to scan, test, and audit networks, systems, and services. On the other hand, IT Ops teams still use manual processes to remediate detected vulnerabilities. This gap between detection and ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; Is your business protected against security threats? The answer may depend on how often your engineers do manual work. Misconfigured servers, including cloud virtual machines, accounted for a whopping 86% of records compromised in 2019, according to the IBM Cyber Intelligence Report. Cybersecurity spending will exceed $170 billion in 2020, but these initiatives are often useless in preventing an engineer from misconfiguring a firewall or forgetting to patch a security vulnerability on a new server. Manual work is risk, and manual security work is a disaster waiting to happen. Smart business leaders will minimize the ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; I’m excited to announce the release of Puppet Enterprise 2019.4. This marks the second update of Puppet Enterprise since announcing our move to deliver new product features more frequently. The shift is emblematic of a common theme to meet our customers where they are and take them where they need to be.We want to encourage our customers to follow our quarterly updates to get the most from their investment in Puppet Enterprise. These updates will continue to focus on helping customers manage their infrastructure at scale, with speed and security. With that said, ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; One of our core values at Puppet is “Community powered. Empowering community.” With our open source roots, we’ve always had strong ties to our community of users who help us innovate much more rapidly than we could on our own. But our responsibility extends beyond our own technical community to the communities in which we live and work. As leaders in our space, we can make an even bigger difference through our philanthropy initiatives which foster diversity and inclusivity, encourage employee volunteerism, and provide greater access to technology. Just a few months ago, ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; The particular needs of developers introduce additional considerations to the design process: How do developers influence a software purchase? How do they contribute to our code base as beginners, and how can we help them become experts? What prevents them from contributing, and how can we mitigate those issues?Once you get an understanding of how individual developers relate to your product, you can begin to consider them as a group.Nurture the communityIt is a mistake to believe that all of your open-source users are somewhere on the path to becoming commercial customers. Address ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; We are happy to announce the availability of Puppet Remediate 1.2! This release is primarily driven by feedback from our customers. This release features enhanced dashboards and workflows to improve the time to value for our Remediate customers.Dashboard vulnerabilities overview tabThe Vulnerability overview tab on the Vulnerabilities dashboard displays information on the number, criticality, and extent to which the nodes on your network are vulnerable. This includes:Key statistics that provide an overall health of your network. You can see the total number of vulnerabilities affecting the nodes on your network, as well as ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; On 3 February 2020 we removed Puppet’s Microsoft Azure VM extension. We understand that your teams may have been affected by this removal, so we have temporarily re-enabled the agent extension handler. Going forward, we recommend that you use the simplified PE package installer in conjunction with the Azure ARM template to help bootstrap your agents. The documentation can be found on our installing agents page.It’s important to note that the re-enabling of this extension is going to be a temporary measure, as we have plans to completely remove the custom Azure extension ... Read More