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On the heels of our VMware partnership announcement, we’ve received a lot of questions about our existing technical integrations with VMware. One of the most widely applicable ways our software works together is the Puppet Cloud Provisioner—a simple tool that allows you to easily spin up, classify, and take down VMware nodes with Puppet Enterprise, […]

Less than a year ago, EMC and Puppet Labs announced the availability of Razor, our next-generation discovery and provisioning solution for bare metal and virtual machines. Since the launch, thousands of people have tested Razor, and we’ve made significant improvements and bug fixes to the solution. Today, I’m pleased to announce release 0.8.0 of Project […]

Release management issues provide much of the impetus for adopting DevOps practices, both in terms of release quality and release frequency, but the required cultural changes in terms of alignment, communication, and automation can be daunting to consider. Getting buy-in across the organization can be difficult for anyone who isn’t in senior management, but that […]

Sydney really blew away my expectations last week. Our local Puppet friends in Sydney were great and always willing to show us around the beautiful sites. I was also lucky enough to be there on Australia day, which concluded with the most amazing fireworks show I’ve even seen before at Darling Harbour. To top it […]

If you read Max Martin’s fantastic DevOps December piece, Q: Are We Not Devs? A: We Are DevOps!, you were probably wondering two things: What’s with the funky title? (hint: it’s a nerdy DEVO reference) How do I set up my own Puppet + Vagrant development environment? Lucky for you, Max wrote a fantastic two-part […]

Today I’m excited to announce that Puppet Labs and VMware have formed a new strategic partnership, after more than a year of working closely together from VMware’s initial investment in our company. This partnership involves VMware investing $30 million in Puppet Labs, as well as a commercial agreement to jointly deliver, market, and sell great […]

Last week, I hosted a webinar titled the “Best Practices for Learning Puppet”. Although there are several ways that you can master the Puppet DSL, I chose specifically to discuss our Learning Puppet VM because I find it to be the fastest and easiest way you can learn Puppet. For those of you who don’t […]

It’s January, and with that comes the usual buzz of resolutions, goal-setting, and discussions around what to accomplish in 2013. Some will set personal goals, others will focus on professional goals, and organizations will look for ways to ensure they have the right staff working on all the right things that will enable them to […]

A few days ago, I left you with Part 1: Top Questions on Puppet and Windows. As I mentioned in that blog post, I received a ton of questions during a Puppet Enterprise and Windows webinar that I recently hosted — so many that I couldn’t get to all of them. In part 1, I answered […]

Last week, I hosted a webinar on Puppet and Puppet Enterprise on Windows. During the half-hour-long demo, I covered a number of items, including how to use Puppet Enterprise to manage Windows machines, and how to manage fundamental resources on Windows (in contrast with the same resources on Linux). I also dove deeper into Windows-specific resources, […]

Good testing of Puppet code involves different approaches and techniques that can be complex and time consuming. You can test your manifests’ syntax with puppet parser validate, verify their code style with puppet-lint, test modules logic and behaviour at catalog level with rspec-puppet, and check the actual effect of a Puppet run on dispensable virtual […]

How did Australian broadband network manage to roll out services as they were being built? Continuous delivery & DevOps.

Continuous integration begat continuous delivery; continuous delivery begat DevOps.

Today, we are launching the beta version of a new question and answer site where you can ask any Puppet questions or provide answers for questions from other Puppet users and developers. We have an active online community of open source and Puppet Enterprise users, and ask.puppetlabs.com is another great forum for answering Puppet questions, […]

Since 1999, my passion has been studying high performing IT organizations. This journey started off when I began keeping a list called “Gene’s list of people with good kung fu.” The people on the list talked differently about IT Operations, acted differently, and most importantly, had profoundly different results than your typical IT organization.

On this journey, I studied these high performers and benchmarked over 1,500 organizations. Our goal was to understand what enabled them to do what most organizations could only dream of. Our findings went into a book that we published in 2004 called The Visible Ops Handbook, which described how these organizations made their “good to great” transformation.

What I couldn’t have predicted was how this journey would take me straight into the heart of the DevOps movement. As my friend John Willis told me after I dismissed DevOps as just another marketing fad, “DevOps is the best chance at relevance that IT Operations has had in thirty years.” I immediately realized that he was right.

We’re excited to announce our second annual DevOps Survey, in conjunction with IT Revolution Press. Our last survey saw over 700 respondents and showed us how DevOps has evolved since the term was first coined in 2009 by Patrick Debois. A lot has changed in the last 18 months, and we want to know how […]