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Continuous delivery and continuous deployment are often confused. The difference is simple but critical.

What’s service virtualization? It’s the simulation of a complex application, database or other computing service in a testing environment.

Continuous delivery makes it feasible to introduce new features and functions quickly and reliably. It’s also a competitive advantage.

Hiera, a key/value data lookup tool for Puppet and Puppet Enterprise, defaults to storing data in YAML and JSON files. This is fine for many uses, but often someone will want to use a different storage format or import a bunch of data from an existing tool of some kind. To do this, you need […]

Companies that want to introduce new features to customers quickly are either already practicing continuous delivery or working towards it — or they should be.

Think it’s impossible to stand up an OpenStack cloud in 15 minutes? If you’re the betting kind, Red Hat software engineer, Derek Higgins, is ready to take your money. Derek created Packstack, an installation utility that uses Puppet modules to deploy OpenStack in three easy steps. Not convinced? Join Derek Higgins, Cody Herridges, and Chris […]

The Puppet Enterprise 3.0 orchestration engine provides an important part of the product’s cloud automation capabilities. It allows admins to discover and manage thousands of nodes at once from either the Puppet Enterprise web console, or from the command line. Read on to learn how the orchestration engine works and see a video demo of […]

If you’re planning on taking Puppet training, here’s everything you need to have ready before the first day of class.

Could DevOps ideas be the key to a happier, more productive working life? Here are some KPIs used by people who use DevOps practices.

Gene Kim talks about the times he saw how DevOps solves serious business problems, while making life better for people in IT operations.

It’s official: Puppet Labs and Cloudsmith are now one company.

As methodologies lead and former professional services engineer at Puppet Labs, Eric Shamow has stories. Like the one where the dev and ops teams were butting heads so hard that their manager thought it might be easier to just fire one group and start fresh.

When you think about scale, you probably think about Amazon. Werner Vogels, Amazon’s CTO, talks about practicing release management at scale.

We love talking with women who are doing great things in technology. Sabrina Farmer is a senior engineering manager for the Site Reliability team at Google, responsible for Google Apps and directly manages the teams responsible for running Gmail, the world’s largest internet email service.