When James Turnbull had his first look at the Puppet configuration management system two years ago, he had no inkling of the extent to which he would get involved in the project. Turnbull works in the ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers make a five-step journey to cloud automation mastery. They start with the pointy-clicky AWS web console, and finish by coding declarative models of their cloud ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 11, 2017) - PuppetConf 2017-- Puppet, the standard for automating the delivery and operation of the software that powers everything around us, today announced ...

As part of building up the background to my recent user story about Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) and its work with Puppet, I took the opportunity to speak with Deepak Giridharagopal, Puppet’s CTO. As ...

Any Puppet deployment larger than a smattering of servers will require custom code and a fairly deep knowledge of Linux/Unix internals. This is not a click-and-drag tool, nor a Web-based configuration ...

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For the last few years, the game plan around the office was simple. The CEO would say “faster” and the CTO would say “cloud.” Everyone would nod and say, “Of course.” All good things come to an end.

Puppet software lets you manage the software configuration on all the hosts on your network. It simplifies repetitive operations and ensures state and configuration integrity among large number of ...

Turnbull had a look at Cfengine and BCFG2 ; the former he found too complex to implement. "Then I came across Puppet. I was very impressed with the fact that the language was very simple. It was a ...