Puppet Blog - Page 3 – Tips & How To

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

An SRE at Puppet takes some first steps in automating ESXi server provisioning and shows how this task can be delegated with the Puppet Enterprise console.

Learn practical ways to reduce your AWS bills. One overlooked source of unexpected charges are unattached and forgotten EBS volumes. See how to reduce this with Python.

Improve Puppet module code quality by using unit and Litmus acceptance tests. Integrate Litmus tests into Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise.

Darren Gipson, a DevOps engineer at Willis Towers Watson, shares a cool trick for simplifying Puppet code with Hiera hashes.

Get more from the “What is Knative series.”

Does making an application change on a Friday afternoon still give you chills? Use Puppet to automate your DevOps fears away.

Learn why every company under the sun relies on automation to make business hum. Getting leverage out of technology is essential…

Improve your organization’s vulnerability management process by adopting a counterintuitive strategy.

Get more from the “What is Knative series.”

Designing for the modern CLI experience

Puppet Enterprise role-based access control is great, but what if you need to do more? Check out this post for some tips.

If you’re anything like the rest of us, you’re making unplanned infrastructure changes and don’t have a lot of time to prepare. We’ve got some tips.

Silos lead to misunderstandings which get in the way of better vulnerability remediation.

Uh… Why is this month’s AWS bill so high?

The Boltwash plugin organizes your Bolt targets as groups, exposing their filesystems. This makes it easy to debug failures and fix them with Bolt.

A guide to implementing HTTPS for WinRM automatically with Puppet.

In these sessions from Puppetize PDX, IT professionals share automated testing best practices.