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We’re excited to announce our second annual SysAdmin Appreciation Day contest! This year, instead of asking for your full-blown stories, we’re looking for a snapshot of your experiences—sysadmin life, distilled in animated gifs. There are an number of gif sites out there, but few that focus on the sysadmin.

In May, we announced the Razor project with EMC. Even though the product is still in beta, we’ve seen an exciting amount of testing and adoption of the next generation provisioning system. In our initial release, we open sourced Razor and provided Puppet modules to install Razor on Ubuntu Precise. One of interesting aspect of […]

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has been in the news lately for their recent observation of the Higgs Boson particle. Like any research facility dealing with big data, they face infrastructure automation challenges in scaling their computing power—and are looking to move beyond homegrown scripts. Enter: Puppet. A few of our lucky employees […]

We’ve written several blog posts about testing modules. There’s good reason for this: testing is an increasingly important part of module development here at Puppet Labs. Comprehensive module test suites help us avoid regressions and support a wide range of Puppet and operating system versions. Like everything we do, we want the work that we’ve […]

OSCON is fast approaching, and we’d like to welcome attendees back to Portland. Puppet Labs is among the companies representing Portland and Open Source again this year. To kick off OSCON right, we’re hosting a party Tuesday, July 17th—opening night—from 7 PM on. It’s the opening night for the convention, and we’d love to see […]

Purpose Manage the Windows Registry Module puppetlabs/registry Puppet Version Puppet 2.7+, Puppet Enterprise 2.5+ Platforms 32 and 64-bit versions of Windows 2003 and later The puppetlabs/registry module allows Puppet users to manage the Windows Registry. On Windows operating systems, the registry is a database used to store configuration data for applications, drivers, and the operating […]

Purpose Configures OpenStack Module puppetlabs/openstack Puppet Version 2.7.14+, Puppet Enterprise 2.5+ Platforms Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise), Debian 6 (Wheezy) In April, we announced Puppet’s support for OpenStack, a popular open source project that can be used to build private clouds. At that time, we posted the first OpenStack configuration module on Puppet Forge, which enabled you […]

Purpose Manage MySQL clients, servers, and databases Module puppetlabs/mysql Puppet Version 2.6+ Platforms RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, FreeBSD One of the most common first big tasks users are interested in using Puppet for is a MySQL deployment. The puppetlabs/mysql module provides users with the tools needed to quickly manage everything from a MySQL client to […]

Puppet provides a lot of very useful data about itself and your infrastructure, collected in the Puppet Data Library. Every Puppet run on a client creates a report including every action taken during the run, log output, and metrics on the performance of the run. As we discovered in Part I, there are a broad […]

Purpose Installs vCenter 5 on Windows and manages vCenter resources. Module puppetlabs/vcenter Puppet Version 2.7+ Platforms Windows 2008R2 64bit VMware vCenter is a software application that provides central management of vSphere environments. It’s an essential component for managing large numbers of VMware virtual machines and the fleet of ESX systems supporting those hosts. As a […]

Purpose Razor Provisioning Software Module puppetlabs/razor Puppet Version 2.7+ Platforms Ubuntu Precise Razor is next generation provisioning software that handles bare metal hardware and virtual server provisioning with inventory discovery and tagging, rule-based policy management, and extensible broker plugin integration. The usage of Razor for provisioning is discussed briefly in this blog, and additional information […]

Puppet Labs is really excited to introduce Razor, a next-generation hardware provisioning solution developed collaboratively with our friends at EMC. I’ll be diving into details about specific Razor features in a series of blog posts, which includes installation via a Puppet module, but in this post I’ll focus on a high level overview of Razor’s […]

Design is an integral part of the way we build software at Puppet Labs. More specifically, we strive to answer a very simple question: what does the user need? This isn’t always an easy question to answer, but we’ve been happy with our success in doing so. User empathy is our conduit for user satisfaction. […]

PuppetDB is the next-generation open source storage service for Puppet-produced data. Today, this includes catalogs and facts, and will be extended in the near future. The initial release provides a drop-in replacement for both storeconfigs and inventory service. We’ve designed PuppetDB to empower Puppet deployments, and built it from the ground up with performance in […]

Wouldn’t it be nice if you never made a mistake or a typo again? Okay, that’s a slightly misleading offer. How about just never committing such gaffes in with your code? “How?” I hear you cry. With the illustrious Tim Sharpe’s puppet-lint and some version control derring-do! Following on from Adrien’s wonderful post on syntax […]

Purpose Comprehensive clamav and freshclam classes Module jmcdonagh/clamav Puppet Version 2.6+ Platforms Ubuntu 10.04 LTS+ ClamAV is an open-source scanning engine for malware, virus, and trojan detection. It is often used in conjunction with an MTA such as Postfix. It comes with a built-in service for AV signature updates called freshclam. This module is intended […]