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Purpose Standard library for creating Puppet modules Module puppetlabs/stdlib Puppet Version 2.6+ Platforms Redhat, Debian, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows Welcome back to the module of the week! Last week we began our coverage of the puppetlabs/stdlib module by examining the file_line resource, which allows you to manage individual lines in a file. We’ll pick […]

Module of the Week: puppetlabs/stdlib – Puppet Labs standard library for creating Puppet modules

We’re happy to announce three European Puppet Camps: Edinburgh, Scotland March 23 (only 20 tickets left!) Register Stockholm, Sweden March 28 (20 tickets left!) Register Amsterdam, Netherlands April 2 Register Puppet Camps are 1-day community events for local audiences. Typically we’ll feature 3-5 local speakers along with a Puppet Labs Engineer. Schedules for all three […]

Hello, I’m Michael Stahnke and I’m the new community manager at Puppet Labs. I’ll provide a little bit of background about myself, but then I want to jump into the important stuff around the Puppet community. I joined Puppet Labs in April of 2011 as the first Release Manager. I was a member of the […]

Module of the Week: saz/sudo – Manage sudo configuration with Puppet

Puppet modules are a fantastic way to deploy and manage specific applications. The Puppet Forge contains a wealth of third-party modules that allow you to do some awesome stuff with a minimum of work. In this post, we use a module from the Forge to solve a common task—using Puppet to set up a WordPress […]

Welcome to the Puppet Module of the Week! This is a brand new blog series where we pick a module on the Puppet Forge and review it. We’ll cover a wide variety of modules in these reviews. When we run across a great module that could use some work, we’ll highlight those areas and even […]

Management of network devices is one of the exciting new features in Puppet Enterprise 2.0 and Puppet 2.7. In the initial release, support is limited to Cisco devices, but because Puppet is extensible via modules, we are able to build upon the existing framework and add support for F5 BIG-IP. Like most network appliances, installation […]

In a previous blog post, we introduced use cases for separating configuration data from Puppet code. This post (part one of a two part series) will go in-depth with installing, configuring, and using Hiera, but let’s first look at WHY we would need Hiera. Introduction to the SSH module One of the benefits of Hiera […]

You’ve bought Pro Puppet, downloaded a couple of modules from the Puppet Forge (and have written some of your own too), and you’re on your way to implementing your Puppet environment when it hits you: something feels bulky with the way you’ve designed your Puppet code. Your modules may not be portable between environments (development, […]

One of the issues that crops up when working with Puppet is ensuring that your manifests do what you expect. Errors are bound to happen. A missed brace can make a manifest not compile, or forgetting to include a module or set a variable may mean that running Puppet on the host fails to enforce […]

The first Puppet Triage-a-thon was a huge success. Thank you so much to everyone who attended and contributed! Some of our favorite stats from the event: We started the day with 2292 open tickets. Over the course of the day 565 tickets were triaged. We also closed 115 tickets. That’s almost 25% of the open […]

Getting Started With Puppet Weekly Webinar: Ask Your Puppet Enterprise Questions Get a Live Management demo, and ask your burning PE questions. Puppet Enterprise 2.0 How To: Cloud Provisioning Start provisioning in the public and private cloud today. VIDEO: AWS CloudFormation and Puppet Enterprise 2.0 How to build out Puppet Enterprise stacks with CloudFormation. Forge […]

Written in conjunction with Tino Vazquez from the OpenNebula Project, and cross-posted on the OpenNebula blog. Puppet is used for managing the infrastructure for many IaaS software packages, including Eucalyptus, OpenStack, and OpenNebula. OpenNebula is an IaaS manager which can not only manage a large amount of different virtualization and public cloud platforms, it can […]

The Puppet CloudFormation Face integrates Puppet Enterprise (PE) with CloudFormation so that users can reliably create entire Puppet Enterprise “stacks” in Amazon’s EC2 from their workstation. A “stack” refers to a collection of launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) “resources” that can be specified as a “template” in CloudFormation’s declarative json modeling language. Templates support a […]

With the launch of Puppet Enterprise 2.0, it’s easy to get lost in the scale of what we’ve enabled sysadmins to do. Besides shipping a world-class configuration management tool, we now make it easy to create managed servers from thin air. In addition, we’re providing command line tools that take fresh OS installs directly to […]

With the release of Puppet Enterprise 2.0, Puppet Labs has added cloud provisioning capabilities with support for some of the most popular public and private cloud offerings including Amazon EC2 and VMware. PE 2.0 allows you to quickly provision virtual machines and start managing them with Puppet right away. Getting Started The following set of […]

Why do we want configuration management? There are plenty of reasons, but at the core of them is that we want to streamline the configuration and deployment of systems. We want this process to be repeatable, well-understood, and predictable. We want to make it deterministic. Determinism — the idea that a process should result in […]