Many thanks to Patrick Debois for putting on a great event this year at Puppet Camp Europe. He has finished uploading the videos from all the speakers at the event to our Puppet Labs Blip.tv account.

I have embedded Luke's keynote in this post below, but all the presentations are available at the following links:

It's good to be back in the office again, pounding the 2.6.0 beta into shape, and wonderful to see my family, but I really had a blast at Puppet Camp EU as well.

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

My birthday's coming up, which means that the operations world is once again conspiring to force me to spend the week in San Francisco at conferences rather than at home, sauced on Bourbon and playing video games.

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:

Puppet Forge Will Be Used to Further Automate Common Configuration Management Automation Tasks

We are happy to make a case study available today describing how Shopzilla used Puppet to enable them to move to a new cloud environment and deliver cloud services to their internal developers.

Puppet was a key element in Shopzilla's move to an internal cloud service.

There's a good article up from Matt Asay on CNET titled "Cloud computing's secret sauce." The article suggests that the benefits of cloud computing go beyond simple cost reductions and one of the key benefits is simplicity.

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 key (we'll issue a new, improved Puppet Labs key after the Rowlf release).

Don't miss Puppet Camp Europe next Thursday and Friday, May 27th & 28th in Ghent, Belgium. Puppet Labs CEO Luke Kanies will kick things off with a keynote "Portable Infrastructure With Puppet".