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 ...

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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.

With an update to its namesake configuration tool, Puppet Labs has introduced a programming language designed to give administrators more flexibility in scripting their deployment routines. Puppet 3.2 ...

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Open source systems management solutions provider Puppet Labs is extending its services with the launch of Puppet Enterprise, the first commercially supported version of Puppet. Seeing as the company ...

Version 3.0 of Puppet Labs' configuration automation tool shines with speed boosts, orchestration improvements, and deeper support for Windows servers With virtualization driving the meteoric rise in ...

The infrastructure automation tools Puppet and Foreman have irritated their respective communities with changes to their licensing and sales models – and thus reinforced the trend towards forks. This ...

In a previous article, "Provisioning Docker with Puppet", in the December 2016 issue, I covered one of the ways you can install the Docker service onto a new system with Puppet. By contrast, this ...

I've spoken with the folks at Puppet Labs in the past as well as a number of their customers. What I've taken away is that the tools the company offers are designed with the help of developers and ...