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Puppet Labs has hired a new CFO: Bill Koefoed, former head of investor relations at Microsoft & former CFO of Skype. CEO Luke Kanies tells us why.

We had a chance to chat with GitHub infrastructure engineer James Fryman and hear about some of the benefits that Puppet provides to the biggest source control repository out there.

Twenty-three people and some great podcasts to start following if you’re looking for some solid DevOps content, plus a chance to add to our evolving list on Twitter.

Our own Gary Larizza recently kicked off a series on his personal blog explaining how Puppet DSL types and providers work. The second installment shows you how to write a little Ruby to clean up your Puppet code with a custom type and provider.

Docker is an open source framework that automates the deployment of applications in lightweight and portable containers. The Docker framework is modelled on the concept of the standard shipping containers that are used to transport much of the world’s goods. Like shipping containers you can build, fill, open and transport Docker containers. These containers can […]

Do you ever feel like your CMDB is always the last to know about configuration changes? Yesterday, ServiceNow announced ServiceNow Configuration Automation, a new orchestration application that integrates with Puppet Enterprise to create a unified system that drives automated and governed configuration changes. With this integration, updates to your CMDB or requests through the ServiceNow […]

Puppet Camp London was a great day of talks, tea and conversations. Links to all the presentations (and videos) inside.

You don’t have to consider call yourself “agile” or a “DevOps” shop to boost software quality by utilizing the DevOps tool chain and continuous integration.

We’re excited to see Dell adopting open source Puppet for its Active System Manager.

Version control is a critical component of IT automation. How using Git with Puppet Enterprise can prevent a buggy commit from bringing down your production environment.

Geeks jump at new tools, and are less eager to change how they work. But making cultural change is important if you want DevOps to take root in your company.

Generating an ebook “by the book” involves a lot of fiddly bits. Here’s how we used Pandoc and KindleGen to automate much of the production of our ebook builds.

Stdlib is one of the hidden gems of the Puppet module ecosystem. Here’s how to use it to make writing your manifests easier.

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Adopting the DevOps toolchain isn’t always easy. Ease the path by inculcating the seven habits research firm Forrester has found among successful DevOps organizations.

OpenStack’s Marconi is a message queue implementation. Take a quick tour and learn how it works with some sample code.