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Registration for PuppetConf ’12 is now open. We’re in a new city and a new facility, with new tracks and new programs. Look forward to 5 concurrent tracks over 2 days focusing on all things operations. Our new venue offers one large theater for keynotes, while our second auditorium will be dedicated to Puppet Community […]

Module of the Week: rtyler/jenkins – Continuous Integration Server – Use this module to implement and manage Jenkins continuous integration server with Puppet.

We’re taking a brief break from your regularly scheduled module of the week goodness with a mini series to discuss some of the elements that go into writing great Puppet modules. I’ll try to sum it up in a few sentences: Your module should be immediately useful to me after I install it. Documentation should […]

Puppet Labs has been on a roll…and this time it is not our user community, but the physical one we live in that is giving rave reviews! The City of Portland’s Sustainability at Work Program recently announced Puppet Labs as a Gold Certification winner! It all began with the culture here…they care about their community […]

Join us in our first Puppet Labs-hosted Twitter chat this Wednesday at 11 am PT. There are three simple steps to participating: Be on Twitter between 11 am and 12 pm PT on April 4th Track the hashtag #puppetize Jump in the conversation and tag your tweets with #puppetize Our product manager Nigel Kersten, the […]

I’m proud to announce the release of Puppet Enterprise 2.5, downloadable right now and free to use on up to 10 nodes. Just over a year ago, in February of 2011, Puppet Labs released our first commercial product, Puppet Enterprise. We were about 25 people at the time, and our revenue up until then consisted […]

Module of the Week: puppetlabs/apt – Pull APT Strings with Puppet

Purpose Standard library for creating Puppet modules Module puppetlabs/stdlib Puppet Version 2.6+ Platforms Redhat, Debian, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows Welcome back to the module of the week! Previously we covered facter-dot-d. This week we’re switching our focus to the puppetlabs/stdlib data functions: getvar, loadyaml, and merge. The data functions provide the ability to dynamically […]

In a recent blog post we discussed verifying and testing your Puppet code, which generated a large amount of interest. One of the readers asked why we’d bother with rspec-puppet if it simply verifies attributes of a resource. It’s true that, if you have a manifest that simply contained a collection of static resources, rspec-puppet […]

Module of the Week: puppetlabs/stdlib – Puppetlabs standard library – Part 3

Purpose Standard library for creating Puppet modules Module puppetlabs/stdlib Puppet Version 2.6+ Platforms Redhat, Debian, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows Welcome back to the module of the week! Last week we began our coverage of the puppetlabs/stdlib module by examining the file_line resource, which allows you to manage individual lines in a file. We’ll pick […]

Module of the Week: puppetlabs/stdlib – Puppet Labs standard library for creating Puppet modules

We’re happy to announce three European Puppet Camps: Edinburgh, Scotland March 23 (only 20 tickets left!) Register Stockholm, Sweden March 28 (20 tickets left!) Register Amsterdam, Netherlands April 2 Register Puppet Camps are 1-day community events for local audiences. Typically we’ll feature 3-5 local speakers along with a Puppet Labs Engineer. Schedules for all three […]

Hello, I’m Michael Stahnke and I’m the new community manager at Puppet Labs. I’ll provide a little bit of background about myself, but then I want to jump into the important stuff around the Puppet community. I joined Puppet Labs in April of 2011 as the first Release Manager. I was a member of the […]

Module of the Week: saz/sudo – Manage sudo configuration with Puppet

Puppet modules are a fantastic way to deploy and manage specific applications. The Puppet Forge contains a wealth of third-party modules that allow you to do some awesome stuff with a minimum of work. In this post, we use a module from the Forge to solve a common task—using Puppet to set up a WordPress […]

Welcome to the Puppet Module of the Week! This is a brand new blog series where we pick a module on the Puppet Forge and review it. We’ll cover a wide variety of modules in these reviews. When we run across a great module that could use some work, we’ll highlight those areas and even […]

Management of network devices is one of the exciting new features in Puppet Enterprise 2.0 and Puppet 2.7. In the initial release, support is limited to Cisco devices, but because Puppet is extensible via modules, we are able to build upon the existing framework and add support for F5 BIG-IP. Like most network appliances, installation […]