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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 […]