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Applying the Roles and Profiles Method to Compliance Code

by Heston Snodgrass | 23 February 2021

Write maintainable, portable, and auditable Puppet code to enforce compliance by adapting the Roles & Profiles method to the module level.

How-to & Use Cases and Tips & How To

DataDog and Puppet: Sending facts as tags for metrics and events

by Mike Smith | 30 November 2020

Learn how to set up Datadog and Puppet to add facts to metrics and events.

Automation, Tips & How To and Tools & Integrations

Solving financial services regulatory challenges in Australia with Puppet

by Elizabeth Williams | 25 November 2020

Learn why compliance is essential, about the current state of security and Australia’s response, and how Puppet supports APRA’s Practice Guide.

Automation and Tips & How To

Use OSP Assist and get your OSP info from the source

by Claire Hernandez | 18 November 2020

Calling OSP Practitioners! Use OSP Assist, find Puppet authored content, OSP Best Practices and more.

Tips & How To

Enabling faster Puppet Enterprise code deploys

by Martez Reed | 12 November 2020

Learn how to enable faster Puppet code deployment with improvements in Puppet Enterprise 2019.8.2.

Product and Tips & How To

Scheduling Puppet Plans in Puppet Enterprise

by Martez Reed | 12 November 2020

Learn how to schedule Puppet Plans in Puppet Enterprise to enable the orchestration of tasks on a recurring schedule.

Product and Tips & How To

Solving critical Windows services restart during Puppet agent upgrades

by Ciprian Badescu | 29 October 2020

Read about the bumpy ride we had while fixing a critical Windows services restart during Puppet Agent upgrades.

Tips & How To and Windows

Reading and resolving Puppet errors

by Jessykah Bird | 21 October 2020

When Puppet is waving the red flag, know how to look closer and react calmly!

Tips & How To

Creating Azure VM images with Packer and Puppet Bolt

by Martez Reed | 24 September 2020

Learn how to use HashiCorp Packer and Puppet Bolt to define your Azure VM templates in code.

Tips & How To and Tools & Integrations

Automation and changing needs, featuring Forrester

by Abby Kearns | 14 September 2020

Abby Kearns and Forrester’s Leslie Joseph discuss how automation plays an important role in supporting companies through crises and preparing them for an uncertain future.

Automation and Tips & How To

Want to strengthen cybersecurity? Start by improving your discovery process

by Mark Wilson | 10 September 2020

Strengthening cybersecurity starts with knowing your infrastructure. Reduce your risk of a breach by automating resource discovery.

Tips & How To and Tools & Integrations

Authenticate Puppet Enterprise with FreeIPA using LDAP

by Becca Robinson | 13 August 2020

Learn how to auth Puppet Enterprise against Red Hat Identity Management or FreeIPA using LDAP.

Tips & How To and Tools & Integrations

Autoscaling Puppet compile masters with AWS

by Henry Wang | 17 July 2020

Learn more about running Puppet compile masters with Amazon Web Services’ Load Balancer and autoscaling group.

Tips & How To and Tools & Integrations

Power your Puppet reports with PowerBI in 10 minutes

by Dimitri Tischenko | 2 July 2020

This article provides a step-by-step guidance to connect PuppetDB to PowerBI to create interactive reports and dashboards in 10 minutes.

Tips & How To and Tools & Integrations

Version ranges: a smarter way to manage packages with Puppet

by Luchian Nemes | 16 June 2020

You can now specify a desired version range to be respected by your packages when managing them with Puppet.

Tips & How To

Updated Puppet GPG signing key, 2020 edition

by Eric Griswold | 10 June 2020

The GPG key we use to sign Puppet products on Linux is expiring soon, so we’ve switched to a new key. You’ll need to import it to use the repos.

Tips & How To

Scaling open source Puppet

by Jerald Sheets | 1 June 2020

An easy and repeatable process for scaling open source Puppet implementations for larger environments.

Tips & How To

Use Onceover to start testing your Puppet control repository

by Henry Wang | 20 May 2020

Is there a simple way to quickly test your Puppet code? Yes! The answer is Onceover, and this blog post will show you how.

Tips & How To and Tools & Integrations
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