Category: IDERA

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Andrej Walilko; Are you considering migrating your server in 2020? Many businesses often feel held back by “what-if” scenarios when choosing a hosting provider that may better support their environment. After all, one of the most cited fears for SMBs is around server migrations. Server migrations can certainly be complex, and one of the most important factors for a smooth migration is having a team of experts on your side to help you navigate through this process. That’s why at Liquid Web, we have migration teams dedicated to providing their advice and expertise to our customers ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Happy New Year! (Okay, it's February — we're a little behind.) It's time for another edition of our regular What’s new in Puppet modules feature. Due to the lull that accompanies the holidays, we decided to roll up December and January into one post. We’re looking forward to another great year of module development, but let’s start by looking back on what we’ve done in the last few months.As of 1 February, we have 4,743 modules on the Forge.puppetlabs-mount_providers-1.0.0Provides the mounttab and mountpoint resource types.2017-01-27 - Release 1.0.0Bug fixesSets ensure on the mountpoint ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; NOTE: This article is targeted at versions of Puppet that use Hiera 3 or higher — generally Puppet 4, or Puppet Enterprise 2015.2 and later versions. Some of this information will also apply to older versions.This blog post follows from my prior post, Hiera hierarchies and the custom facts everyone needs. In this new post, I hope to provide a basis for understanding how Hiera works under the hood, and the steps to troubleshoot when Hiera doesn't work as you might have anticipated.BackgroundIn my last article, I recommended a hierarchy along these lines::hierarchy: ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; After hearing for years about the inscrutability of our existing AST-based query language, the PuppetDB team is proud to announce the release of our new query language PQL, first released as experimental in PuppetDB 4.0 and Puppet Enterprise 2016.1.PQL is a more human-friendly way to query PuppetDB. Coupled with a new Puppet function for querying PuppetDB from within Puppet manifests, PQL is intended to both simplify querying from the CLI and facilitate more interesting integrations of PuppetDB and traditional Puppet applications.I'd like to highlight some benefits of PQL over AST and encourage you ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; If you read Curt Stalhood's A guide to Puppet integration with VMware vRealize Automation, you saw one possible way of integrating Puppet Enterprise with vRealize Automation (vRA) as a part of EMC’s Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC) solution. The integration relies on the vRA Guest Agent. One of the caveats is that the vRA Guest Agent is not available for all the operating systems that Puppet Enterprise supports.Andreas did a short presentation of the integration at an internal EMC event in Paris, with step-by-step instructions on how to set up this integration. Karol was ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Recently at Puppet Labs, we’ve been putting a lot of thought into how to make our server-side applications faster, smarter, and more modular. Today, we’re excited to give you a sneak peek into the future of some of this work.TrapperkeeperTrapperkeeper is a new Clojure framework we’ve written for hosting long-running applications and services. It takes some of the lessons we’ve learned about high-performance server-side architecture over the last few years and combines them with patterns for maximizing modular, reusable code. It’s entirely open source, and we’re looking forward to seeing how the community ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; If you haven’t yet noticed that prioritization of non-functional requirements (NFRs) is changing amongst your user base, you will soon. For decades, we have held to the same familiar set of NFRs. Every team had its own definition and particular spin on NFRs, but the usual suspects are accessibility, availability, extensibility, interoperability, maintainability, performance, reliability, scalability, security, and usability. But new priorities have surfaced, as IT has experienced a sea change over the past few years. Some organizations have even adopted completely new NFRs. The rise of DevOps has coincided with these changes, ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Gartner research director Thomas E. Murphy points out in a recent blog post that while software failures are clearly bad for business (especially when they happen in public), it’s difficult for business managers to quantify the ROI of testing enough to assure software quality. Thus, testing and quality are normally viewed from the point of view of risk management, rather than business goals.But that’s an erroneous view. As Murphy points out, the ISO’s benchmarks for software quality — functionality (which includes security), reliability, usability, efficiency, maintainability, and portability — are all critical considerations ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Mitch Sonies is the founder and CEO of Cloudsmith, the developer of Stack Hammer, a Puppet-based SaaS application for creating and deploying software stacks to the cloud, and Geppetto, an IDE for Puppet module developers. It’s official: Puppet Labs and Cloudsmith are now one company. (Actually, this has been true for a month, but “official” news sometimes travels a bit more slowly!) Speaking for those of us on the Cloudsmith side, the transition was frictionless, the first month has been great and we’re thrilled to be part of the team ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; If your technical team is talking about and working towards continuous delivery, you should tip your fedora to Jez Humble. The co-author (with David Farley) of Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation, and principal at custom software house ThoughtWorks, Jez is one of the leading thinkers driving big changes in software development.Jez also contributes to the thinking around DevOps, a term he thanks Patrick Debois for inventing just in time to be included in the book (published in 2010). Commonly described as a cultural movement, “DevOps is much ... Read More