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Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Today we’re excited to announce Puppet Enterprise 1.2 with two great new features that give you the intelligence you need to prove you’re in compliance with your change management processes. With Puppet Enterprise Compliance you set a desired-state for each of your systems and monitor them for any changes, right from our web-based Dashboard, creating a baseline. You'll be alerted to changes on monitored nodes and you choose to accept or reject each change. Accepted changes will become part of the baseline, and rejected changes will still show up in Dashboard until you ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; We are evaluating two tools for testing Puppet modules. One is rspec-puppet, the other is cucumber-puppet. The hope is to get standards for testing into the module forge and hook it into a CI framework such as Hudson or Jenkins. This will enable Puppet Forge users to immediately evaluate a module in terms of its test failure rate, and enable developers to see the intended behavior of the module. The higher level goal is to open a discussion among developers on the Puppet Forge about the intended behavior of modules, what they need ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Puppet Labs and Cloudera have partnered to colocate an Apache Hadoop Sysadmin training at PuppetConf. The Hadoop sysadmin course at PuppetConf will be one of the first 3-day Hadoop training courses offered, and registration in the training course includes a free ticket to PuppetConf. The Hadoop Sysadmin course is being offered in addition to a Puppet Master, Puppet Developer, MCollective, and Eucalyptus Quickstart. About the Course: Systems administrators need to know how Hadoop operates in order to deploy and manage Hadoop clusters for their organizations. Cloudera offers a two-day intensive Hadoop training course ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Since starting at Puppet Labs four months ago, many friends have asked me why. "Puppet is a systems tool, right? Isn't it all command line? Where's the user experience? Don't you usually work on the web? Are you designing their website?" To the contrary, I'm happy to say that for the first time since the Internet was invented I'm working at a company whose web site doesn't need much of my attention. We have fantastic people working on it already, and I think it's quite good. There's a lot of user experience in ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Sandra Pattison; There are endless things to do and places to see in Colombia, from the Andes Mountains to the unspoiled Caribbean beaches. This South American country has some of the world’s finest emeralds and coffee, but violent conflict and human rights violations are still an issue.  To stay safe from any online dangers while you’re in the country, you should use one of our best VPN for Colombia picks. If you’re in a hurry, ExpressVPN is the best VPN for Colombia. Read on to find out why you should use one of our VPNs for Colombia ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Brian Law; Avast is a name that some readers might already be familiar with. Avast started in the late ‘80s as a cybersecurity software company, and it now protects more than 435 million computers worldwide, making its antivirus the most prolific anti-malware application in existence today. For those who are interested in this side of Avast’s product line, you can check out our Avast Pro review, but in this article, we’re looking at Avast SecureLine VPN, which is Avast’s take on VPN software. In our Avast SecureLine VPN review, we found that it offered solid speeds and ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; So, there you are: you’ve finally figured out how to get past the Netflix VPN ban and are ready to watch your favorite TV show, you get into the Netflix of the region you want, you click the thumbnail and … a black screen? You’ve just walked into the dreaded Netflix proxy error. In this article, we’ll show you how to unblock Netflix using some of the best VPNs on the market. We’ll cover the basics why Netflix blocks VPNs in the first place but if you don’t have time these are the top services ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Sandra Pattison; Known for its Himalayan mountains — including Mt Everest — and the streets of Kathmandu, there’s plenty to explore in Nepal. You’ll most likely go online at some point, though, so stay safe with one of our best VPN for Nepal picks. Read on to find out why you should use a VPN and what features it should have for the best experience. Your best bet for Nepal is ExpressVPN, but there are some other solid choices, too.  The number of internet users in Nepal is growing. Only around nine percent of the population used ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Brian Murray; NordVPN is a titan in the VPN market and borders on a household name. Odds are, if you’re here reading this, you’ve already heard of NordVPN, and for good reason. As we stated in our NordVPN review, it has almost everything, from tons of features to top-notch security to competitive pricing.  VyprVPN, on the other hand, might be one of the more under-appreciated VPNs. In our VyprVPN review, we talked about how we loved some of the features, especially the Chameleon protocol.  With NordVPN making waves in the world of cybersecurity — and seemingly being ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Not everyone realizes it, but Netflix has a different library of movies and TV shows for every country that it is active in. It’s not alone in this: Hulu, Amazon as well as some Kodi repos have the same restriction. What makes the world’s number one streaming service different is the dreaded Netflix VPN ban. This article is about how to beat it. In theory, any geoblock like Netflix’s should be easy to circumvent by simply employing a virtual private network, a way to pretend your connection is coming from somewhere else than your actual ... Read More