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James Sweeny gave an excellent talk at PuppetConf about managing Windows environments using Puppet. Learn about the differences between managing Windows & Unix environments, plus weird Windows idiosyncrasies to watch out for.

The Puppet Enterprise console is convenient, but sometimes you’d rather use the command line. With the Rake API, you can do what are normally console tasks from the command line.

Software updates should be treated as just another change, equal to development changes: Apply every update that doesn’t break your applications.

You can manage your DigitalOcean cloud servers with Puppet — here’s how. #EmbraceCloudAutomation

Cisco Live kicks off today and we’re thrilled to be in the onePK booth showing off our up-and-coming joint solutions. Stop by and say hello to Nigel Kersten, CIO, Jeff McCune, author of the Pro Puppet book, and Jose Palafox. If you can’t make it to Milan, watch Jeff McCune demonstrate running Puppet Enterprise on […]

Creating a Docker container to build an application is pretty easy. It’s equally easy to make use of the Puppet modules you like using to build applications inside a Dockerfile, says James Turnbull.

Puppet Labs interns do Real Work™ — and it wins them recognition and full-time jobs.

What to consider if you want to use Puppet and/or Razor in your SAP environment, or if you want to add SAP to your automated environment.

Devs shouldn’t have to wait for a work environment – not when it’s so easy to provision a LAMP stack with Vagrant & Puppet.

Jeremy Schulman, director of automation concept engineering at Juniper Networks, talks about DevOps for networking, and how technologies like Puppet can help.

Rebooting Windows is a pain. See how the reboot module bundled with Puppet Enterprise can make rebooting less painful.

DevOps principles help IT operations teams design systems for resilience, which is rapidly becoming a high-priority non-functional requirement.

Puppet people will be speaking at FOSDEM 2014: One talk is about Razor, and another is about using Jenkins & Gatling for load and performance testing.

Puppet manifests should be written like documentation, not like a programming language — and the benefits of doing so are huge.

One of the first stumbling blocks people run into as they start writing Puppet modules is the order in which the agent evaluates resources. Manifest-ordered resources are here to help.

Dear Puppet Labs, I got your wishlist. Because you’ve been good this year, I tweeted my friend, Patrick Debois, and he created this comic just for you. — Santa

Tom Limoncelli joins us for DevOps December by offering a map of five milestones with which you can measure the success of DevOps culture in your organization.

DevOps is awesome, and it takes adoption of an infrastructure-as-code mindset to realize its advantages for scaling, efficiency and productivity.