Puppet Blog - Page 39

If you’re using Google Compute Engine, you need cloud automation. There’s a module for that.

Puppet plays well with Windows. This post covers a few basic Windows tasks you can automate with Puppet, as well as how-to tips for avoiding a few common gotchas.

As some of you may know, an applicant for a role at Puppet Labs reported via Twitter on the evening of Tuesday, April 29th that she had been sexually discriminated against in her application, and she thus concluded that Puppet Labs has a hostile work environment. She also reported that one of our employees disparaged […]

Advanced Puppet users interact with SSL in an unusually broad fashion, so we’ve published an intro to SSL & how it works in a Puppet-managed infrastructure.

Puppet Camp London drew enough people to fill an Imperial College London lecture hall for talks on risk assessment & change deployment; chasing AMI with Jenkins, Packer & Puppet; module rewriting; using MCollective as an integration layer; and much more.

Spencer Krum handles application deployment at UTi Worldwide, and shows how he uses Puppet without root to do his job.

Puppet skills are in big demand in the job market. The new Learning VM makes it easier to get started learning Puppet and monitor your own progress, and it’s [recently been updated](http://puppetlabs.com/blog/zero-puppet-freshest-learning-vm).

Patch management is easier & quicker with Puppet Enterprise. See how to remediate the Heartbleed OpenSSL security vulnerability faster in this 8-minute video.

For Clojure developers: A look at the technology underlying Trapperkeeper, the new open source application services framework created by Puppet Labs.

Trapperkeeper is a new Clojure framework for hosting long-running applications and services. Built at Puppet Labs as an open source project, it combines learnings about high-performance server-side architecture with patterns for maximizing modular, reusable code.

We believe the most conservative approach is still the safest and most secure: Regenerate your certificate authority and all OpenSSL certs throughout your Puppet-managed infrastructure.

We’ve released step-by-step documentation for remediating the Heartbleed security vulnerability. Links in post.

Pro efficiency tip: People without root access privileges can manage resources with Puppet Enterprise 3.2. Learn how.

Managing a MySQL deployment is faster, simpler and more manageable with the puppetlabs-mysql module.

Should you choose a PaaS service or IaaS for your growing software company? Brad Heller of Cloudability says it should be IaaS from the start.

Manage PostgreSQL packages & services with the puppetlabs-postgresql module, now fully supported for use with Puppet Enterprise 3.2.

Configuring and running NTP is a common use case for Puppet, and Puppet Enterprise supported module puppetlabs-ntp makes it faster & easier.