Carl Caum

Carl Caum

Carl Caum is a recovering sysadmin currently focused on culture change and inter-team collaboration in IT organizations. He's passionate about improving professional lives, helping companies be empathetic to their customers, and building great solutions.

Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise 3.0 is now available

by Carl Caum | December 12, 2019

Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise 3.0 now offers Hiera support for Impact Analysis and brings more simplicity and flexibility to defining and deploying code.

Merge infrastructure code with confidence using Impact Analysis

by Carl Caum | April 16, 2019

Seeing is believing. Merge infrastructure code confidently with Impact Analysis and Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise.

How to decentralize IT automation: move faster, safely

by Carl Caum | April 15, 2019

Keep up with the pace of business while keeping the business running. Introducing module delivery pipelines in Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise.

Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise 2.3: smarter, better, faster, stronger

by Carl Caum | February 7, 2019

Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise just got smarter, better, faster, stronger. Introducing new features and enhancements.

Introducing Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise 2.2

by Carl Caum | December 18, 2018

Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise 2.2 offers improved deployment approvals, Azure DevOps support and scaling support for Impact Analysis.

Build and deploy Helm charts in Puppet Pipelines™

by Carl Caum | October 1, 2018

Puppet Pipelines for Containers now includes end-to-end workflows for building and deploying applications to Kubernetes using Helm charts.

Announcing Puppet Discovery™ general availability: 8 May

by Carl Caum | April 23, 2018

Announcing general availability of Puppet Discovery on 8 May. Puppet Discovery is our new solution to discover, gain insights, and take action on your hybrid infrastructure.

Detecting and remediating WannaCry

by Carl Caum | May 15, 2017

Puppet's automated configuration management helps you detect and remediate the WannaCry ransomware.

What is infrastructure as code?

by Carl Caum | February 9, 2017

Infrastructure as code: what it is and its role in DevOps practices. Plus the importance of infrastructure as code to IT and organizational success.

How to do continuous delivery with Jenkins and Puppet Enterprise

by Carl Caum | November 16, 2016

The Puppet Enterprise plugin for Jenkins Pipeline makes it trivial to use Puppet for some or all deployment tasks in a continuous delivery pipeline.

The business case for continuous delivery

by Carl Caum | October 4, 2016

Make the business case for moving to continuous delivery.

What is continuous delivery?

by Carl Caum | September 26, 2016

What is continuous delivery? What is continuous deployment? We define these terms and how continuous delivery relates to DevOps.

Puppet Enterprise for HipChat add-on now available

by Carl Caum | May 9, 2016

The new Puppet Enterprise for HipChat add-on puts DevOps into action. New capabilities in Puppet Enterprise and HipChat come together to deliver a new level of ChatOps experience so administrators can push, monitor, and collaborate on change in real time.

Software Defined Networking with Arista and Puppet

by Carl Caum | February 25, 2015

The Problem with Patch Management: All the Humans

by Carl Caum | January 30, 2014

Software updates should be treated as just another change, equal to development changes: Apply every update that doesn't break your applications.

Puppet is executable documentation

by Carl Caum | January 7, 2014

Puppet manifests should be written like documentation, not like a programming language — and the benefits of doing so are huge.

Continuous Delivery Vs. Continuous Deployment: What's the Diff?

by Carl Caum | August 30, 2013

Continuous delivery and continuous deployment are often confused. The difference is simple but critical.

Managing Change to Enable Agile Operations

by Carl Caum | May 23, 2013

Today’s organizations need to quickly ship products and features to customers to keep up with the market, and this puts a huge stress on IT operations. As new applications and services are developed, the Operations team needs to have the infrastructure ready to deploy the necessary changes as they come in. As more and more development teams embrace Agile practices, changes can come at an alarming rate. The infrastructure must always be ready to deploy the changes coming down the pipeline. This requires the operations teams to be agile, sometimes even more so than the development teams.

Module of the Week: puppetlabs/mysql - MySQL Management

by Carl Caum | June 10, 2012

Purpose Manage MySQL clients, servers, and databases Module puppetlabs/mysql Puppet Version 2.6+ Platforms RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, FreeBSD One of the most common first big tasks users are interested in using Puppet for is a MySQL deployment. The puppetlabs/mysql module provides users with the tools needed to quickly manage everything from a MySQL client to […]