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Ben Ford

Ben Ford

Community and Developer Relations Lead

Ben Ford is Community and Developer Relations Lead at Puppet.

The evolution of Puppet community

by Ben Ford | April 22, 2022
You've probably noticed a few changes in our ecosystem over the last couple months. I'd love to tell you about it and how we hope to serve you better.

Help us help you with content usage telemetry

by Ben Ford | December 21, 2021
We both know that you hate telemetry as much as I do. But without it, we have no good way to prioritize which content to focus development efforts on.

Take the Open Source Puppet user survey and enter to win

by Ben Ford | November 4, 2021
Take the 2021 Open Source Puppet user survey to make an impact on the product roadmap and enter to win a prize.

How to mitigate the 0-day Apache path traversal vulnerability with Puppet or Bolt

by Ben Ford | October 5, 2021
Apache has disclosed a critical actively exploited path traversal vulnerability. Use Puppet Enterprise or Bolt to mitigate it now.

Announcing new malware scanning on the Puppet Forge

by Ben Ford, Nik Anderson | September 29, 2021
Puppet announces new malware scanning for newly published modules on the Forge to add an additional layer of security.

Celebrating community at Puppetize Digital 2021

by Ben Ford | September 16, 2021
Excited about Puppetize Digital? Read on for long-time Puppeteer Ben Ford’s most anticipated sessions and community events.

Make your voice heard in the Puppet ecosystem

by Ben Ford | June 23, 2021
Whether it's code, tutorials, QA testing and feedback, or showing up in the Slack to help guide your peers towards answers to their questions, your contributions are what makes this a great space. Learn how you can keep contributing.

PowerShell DSC: The next generation

by Ben Ford | May 19, 2021
Use any DSC Resource from the PowerShell Gallery natively in Puppet. Just install from the Forge & enjoy change reporting right down to the parameter!

The best of the PowerShell Gallery, right in your PE Console

by Ben Ford | September 20, 2020
Use any DSC resource from the PowerShell Gallery natively in Puppet. Just install from the Forge & enjoy change reporting right down to the parameter!

Removing harmful terminology from our products

by Melissa Casburn, Ben Ford | September 3, 2020
Language matters. Puppet is finishing the work we started to remove and replace harmful terms in our software and documentation.

Automating from zero to something

by Ben Ford | April 2, 2020
If you're anything like the rest of us, you're making unplanned infrastructure changes and don't have a lot of time to prepare. We've got some tips.

Refactoring legacy Ruby functions

by Ben Ford | January 8, 2020
The modern Puppet 4.x function API is safer and more efficient. And it's easier to write and use! Learn how to port your legacy functions today.

The 12 days of DevOps

by Ben Ford | December 23, 2019
Ah, it's holiday season again. Pumpkin Spice Lattes are in the air and starting on Christmas day, we'll post 12 daily tweets about something cool that modern Puppet can do.

Agent-side functions in Puppet 6

by Ben Ford | December 17, 2019
Puppet 6 allows you to run code on the agent side during enforcement. This means that the master no longer needs keys to your infrastructure kingdom!

Announcing Birds of a Feather and the Hackathon at Puppetize PDX

by Ben Ford | September 16, 2019
Get the details on Puppetize PDX’s Birds of a Feather sessions and the Hackathon.

Announcing Puppetize PDX speakers, sessions, and more!

by Ben Ford | June 4, 2019
Check out the speakers, sessions, social events, and training opportunities at Puppetize PDX in Portland, Oregon.

Nigel and Deepak chat about Contributor Summit 2019

by Ben Ford | May 3, 2019
Puppet Contributor Summit 2019 is right around the corner. Nigel and Deepak dig into why it’ll be a blast.

Project Month 2019: Coming soon to a keyboard near you!

by Ben Ford | March 19, 2019
Do you have an idea for a great new project in the DevOps space? Let us help you make it reality!

Announcing Contributor Summit projects!

by Ben Ford | December 7, 2018
The Contributor Summit Project Month was a resounding success! We came out with six great projects that each provide genuine value to the world of DevOps and a couple more still incubating.

A big thank you to this year’s community award winners

by Ben Ford | November 15, 2018
Join us in congratulating the community award winners for 2018.

Meet RubyMine, the new Puppet IDE on the block

by Ben Ford | January 12, 2017
RubyMine is an advanced Ruby development environment. Now it's adding Puppet features, with intelligent code completion and dependency management.

Puppet’s Declarative Language: Modeling Instead of Scripting

by Ben Ford | October 6, 2014
Puppet's declarative language is helpful for documentation, auditing, repeatability, consistency, and easy communication with even your non-technical colleagues.