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Puppet Camp Europe 2011 will be held in the capital of the Netherlands (also known as “the Venice of the North”): Amsterdam. A land where people eat cheese and wear clogs, and vehicles with more than two wheels are outlawed, right? Amsterdam is a city with lots of things to see and do, but also […]

We’re pleased to announce that Puppet Camp EU will be hosted at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam on April 28th and 29th. The Early Bird Registration is available until March 5th. Sponsorship packages include tickets and offer the benefits of sponsorship for as little as an additional $150. This year, in addition to a […]

Citrix Systems offers a wide array of virtualization, networking, and SaaS solutions to users in any location and on any device. This large enterprise software company runs an IT infrastructure that is constantly under migration, with many systems in different stages of development. Citrix needed a way to keep a closer eye on their machines—to […]

Check out Episode 17 of DevOps Cafe. Damon and John have compiled a great collection of DevOps resources. In this episode they interview Luke and cover the history of Puppet and DevOps and the future directions for both of them. Listen to the podcast and be sure to subscribe to the DevOps Cafe series.

We are proud to announce that Puppet version 2.6.2 has been released! The 2.6.2 release is a maintenance release in the 2.6.x branch and represents the current stable release version for Puppet. In addition we’ve provided a small number of new and enhanced features that you can see in its release notes. You can download […]

One of the (many!) new features introduced in Puppet 2.6.0 was an audit capability. So what does this mean? Well a normal Puppet resources controls the state you’d like a configuration item to be in, for example: file { ‘/etc/hosts’: owner => ‘root’, group => ‘root’, mode => 0660, } This file resource specifies that […]

In facter part 2, we explored how to write custom facts in ruby along with testing and distribution. Since facter is executed every single time puppet runs, there are benefits to cache the information on the client and refresh based on some TTL. Looking ahead, both features are on our roadmap for facter 2.0, but […]

In facter part 1 we showed how to use facter, as well as how to create custom facts using ruby and environment variables. In this post, we will go into further details how to test, distribute custom facts in your environment whether you are using puppet standalone or in master/agent mode. As a refresher, here’s […]

With the release of facter 1.5.8, it is a great opportunity to revisit this utility and review how it works in conjunction with Puppet. This is a multi-part blog post that will progressively dive deeper into facter and writing custom facts for puppet. Facter is a standalone tool based on Ruby that provides system information […]

Los Alamos National Laboratory has released a whitepaper on how they used Puppet to automate Mac OS X configuration management. The paper includes a walkthrough of their decision to use Puppet and detailed technical steps of their installation and configuration process. View and download: Mac Configuration Management at LANL

If you are looking to use Puppet to automate Hadoop or HBase deployments you should check out this post linking to Adobe’s Puppet recipes that they have published on GitHub. Adobe had released the following recipes: Creating the user under which the entire hstack runs. Changing system settings, like the ssh keys, authorizing machines to […]

Puppet 0.25.5 is now available and ready for download. The 0.25.5 release is a maintenance release in the 0.25.x branch. It contains a number of bug fixes but also performance enhancements including speed-ups to Puppet’s graphing. The release is available at: http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-0.25.5.tar.gz Please note that all releases of Puppet are signed with the Reductive Labs […]

We’re very excited to announce that after years of being a critical contributor to Puppet, including writing the Puppet Book, James Turnbull is joining Puppet Labs as Director of Operations, where he’ll be responsible for infrastructure, support, and everything else we can get him to do. He has been the merge master for Puppet for […]

A common misconception about Puppet is that it can only be used in client/server mode. Although this is the most common use case, it is actually just one of three common deployment practices. Client/Server model: Client/server deployment is the most common and feature rich way to run Puppet. For any environments where multiple hosts are […]