Puppet Blog - Page 8 – Tips & How To

NTP: A Puppet 4 language update

by Helen Campbell | 12 October 2016

Learn how to upgrade a module to use new Puppet language features introduced in Puppet 4.

Industry News, Product and Tips & How To

VMware vSphere hardening for virtual machine security with Puppet

by Andreas Wilke | 12 October 2016

Learn about the new Puppet module that lets you configure advanced security hardening for the virtual machines in your VMware vSphere inventory.

Industry News, Tips & How To and Tools & Integrations

Tips to help you upgrade your Puppet Enterprise implementation

by Suzie Baunsgard | 12 October 2016

Not sure how to upgrade to the long-term-support version of Puppet Enterprise from the version you’re on now? Learn how to upgrade in this post.

Industry News and Tips & How To

Updated Puppet GPG signing key

by Morgan Rhodes | 5 October 2016

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.

Industry News, Product and Tips & How To

Windows configuration management: packages, services and PowerShell

by Grace Andrews | 27 September 2016

Learn how to use Puppet to manage packages and services in Windows.

Industry News and Tips & How To

Managing PowerShell DSC with Puppet

by James Pogran | 26 September 2016

Learn how to manage PowerShell DSC on Windows with Puppet.

Industry News, Tips & How To and Windows

What is continuous delivery?

by Carl Caum | 26 September 2016

What is continuous delivery? What is continuous deployment? We define these terms and how continuous delivery relates to DevOps.

Industry News and Tips & How To

Package management on Windows with Chocolatey & Puppet

by Rob Reynolds | 19 September 2016

Chocolatey is a package manager that lets you manage all aspects of Windows software. Learn how to use Puppet to configure & control Chocolatey.

Industry News and Tips & How To

Installing Puppet Enterprise-only modules without internet access

by Suzie Baunsgard | 16 August 2016

Learn how you can install a Puppet Enterprise-only module on a machine that doesn’t have internet access. For use with Puppet Enterprise 2016.2.x.

Industry News and Tips & How To

Automating with Puppet: Standardizing NTP

by Dylan Ratcliffe | 16 August 2016

Bad NTP configs can break your infrastructure in seconds. Puppet Enterprise can keep them consistent across all your servers. Here’s how.

Industry News, Product and Tips & How To

Automating with Puppet: Cron jobs and scheduled tasks

by Dylan Ratcliffe | 16 August 2016

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

Industry News and Tips & How To

The WSUS client module: a beginner’s guide

by Andrew Ball | 16 August 2016

The practical uses of the wsus_client module, plus some custom facts and how to streamline the Windows update process with Puppet code.

Industry News and Tips & How To

Deploying IIS and ASP.NET with Puppet

by Ethan Brown | 15 August 2016

Learn how to quickly deploy IIS and ASP.NET to Windows Server with Puppet.

Industry News and Tips & How To

Puppet Forge: subscribe to notifications for module releases

by Austin Blatt | 23 July 2016

Subscribe to the Puppet Forge’s per-module RSS feeds and you’ll receive notifications of new module releases for the modules you care about.

Industry News and Tips & How To

Hiera hierarchies and the custom facts everyone needs

by Chris Matteson | 7 July 2016

Hiera is a powerful tool to empower code reuse, but requires customization for each organization. How to build a Hiera hierarchy and custom facts.

Product and Tips & How To

Hiera data generation at Swisscom

by Raffaela Wüst | 2 July 2016

Who does not know the time-consuming and error-prone task of creating Hiera data manually? Hieragen automates builds of YAML Hiera data files.

Customer Stories and Tips & How To

Policy-based autosigning in Azure with the CLI and virtual machine tags

by Keiran Sweet | 26 June 2016

Puppet catalogs often contain secrets. How to make sure no unauthorized Puppet agents request catalogs from your Puppet master.

Tips & How To

Hitchhiker’s guide to testing infrastructure as/and code — don’t panic!

by David Schmitt | 6 June 2016

Two friends — one in operations, one in development — explain why infrastructure as code should be tested like code and monitored like infrastructure.

Tips & How To

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