automation

See what Sanjay has to say about how established companies can take one siloed success with automation and make it pervasive in this Q&A.

We’re excited to release Puppet Tasks, a family of offerings that includes a new open source task runner and enterprise capabilities that automate ad hoc tasks and eliminate manual work.

Forgotten Cron jobs can wreak havoc on systems. Learn how to automate and manage all your Cron jobs with Puppet.

Steve Curtis of ANZ talks the philosophy of abstraction and how it lets us turn incomprehensible streams of bits into functional software.

Before you start automating, you’ll need to set up an advanced control repository that holds info for the Puppet environment. Here's a guide.

Learn how to standardize service accounts across various OSes, make consistent user identifications (UIDs), group memberships, SSH keys, etc.

This week we’re bringing readers an interview with Eric Zounes, a member of our SysOps team. Eric helps build and support Puppets Labs’ infrastructure, using Puppet. Here, Eric shares insights about how he manages our internal logging and monitoring.

1. Please introduce yourself. What do you do here at Puppet Labs? (And where did you work prior to joining Puppet?)

This week we’re bringing readers an interview with Charles Dunbar, a senior member of our SysOps team. Charles helps maintain Puppets Labs’ network infrastructure, tweaks and sustains our internal monitoring systems and writes Puppet modules to automate our internal service infrastructure.

1. Please introduce yourself. What do you do here at Puppet Labs?

When a new vulnerability is announced, how quickly can you identify which of your servers are running vulnerable versions, get the software update through testing and change control, and then confidently report that all systems are patched?

With the right automation in place, you'll spend less time fixing bugs, and more time developing the next feature, or tuning a feature according to user feedback.