Gareth Rushgrove

Gareth Rushgrove

Gareth Rushgrove is a principal software engineer at Puppet. He works remotely from Cambridge, UK, building interesting tools for people to better manage infrastructure. Previously he worked for the UK Government Digital Service (GDS) focused on infrastructure, operations and information security. When not working, he can be found writing the DevOps Weekly newsletter or hacking on software in new-fangled programming languages.

Moving to the Cloud and Containers sessions at PuppetConf 2017

by Gareth Rushgrove | September 15, 2017

Check out all the great cloud and containers talks at PuppetConf 2017.

Storing Lumogon metadata on Docker Hub with Manifesto

by Gareth Rushgrove | August 4, 2017

Use Lumogon with the new Manifesto tool to store application metadata along with your images on Docker Hub.

Using Lumogon to inspect your containers

by Gareth Rushgrove | May 12, 2017

Examples of using Lumogon, a new tool for inspecting, reporting on, and analyzing your containers

Running Puppet software in Docker containers

by Gareth Rushgrove | April 20, 2017

Use Puppet to deploy Docker on nodes & to define container images. Plus, use Docker containers to deploy Puppet so you can test dashboards & modules.

Docker image_build module: features for the power user

by Gareth Rushgrove | November 12, 2016

Image_build has a number of useful power-user features, including a detailed inventory of contents of the Docker image.

Building Docker images with Puppet

by Gareth Rushgrove | November 10, 2016

The new image_build module announced at PuppetConf allows you to use Puppet code to build Docker images with a single, simple-to-use command.

Building agreement around Docker labels

by Gareth Rushgrove | September 8, 2016

Puppet has been actively involved with Label Schema, a community effort to agree on some basic metadata standards for use with Docker containers.

Puppet and VMware Photon OS

by Gareth Rushgrove | August 23, 2016

With the release of Puppet Agent 1.6, and the recently released Puppet images on Docker Hub, you can use Puppet to manage VMware Photon OS hosts.

Puppet in Docker: running Puppet on container-centric infrastructure

by Gareth Rushgrove | May 31, 2016

Run Puppet on container-centric infrastructure like Red Hat Atomic, CoreOS, VMware Photon, Swarm or Kubernetes with Puppet in Docker.

Using Puppet with Kubernetes and OpenShift

by Gareth Rushgrove | May 11, 2016

Use Puppet’s new Kubernetes integration to manage applications in your Red Hat OpenShift cluster.

Docker Compose and Docker network support in Puppet

by Gareth Rushgrove | April 26, 2016

Puppet now supports Docker Compose and Docker networks, allowing you to reuse existing Compose files and have Puppet ensure containers are running.

Using Puppet with CoreOS, rkt, Flannel and etcd

by Gareth Rushgrove | March 30, 2016

CoreOS has produced some great software, including rkt and etcd. Puppet can help you install and manage that software easily in production.

Using Puppet with Mesos

by Gareth Rushgrove | March 24, 2016

Mesos provides a data center operating system. With Puppet, you can get up and running with Mesos quickly, and keep your cluster configured correctly.

Managing EC2 Security Groups using Puppet

by Gareth Rushgrove | December 23, 2014

SysAdvent: So Server, Tell Me About Yourself — An Intro to Facter, Osquery & Sysdig

by Gareth Rushgrove | December 22, 2014

An intro to several tools that are not just powerful debugging tools capable of telling you exactly what your computer is doing, but that also provide a pleasant user interface.

Using Puppet to Launch a Puppet Enterprise Cluster in AWS

by Gareth Rushgrove | December 16, 2014

Provision AWS Infrastructure using Puppet

by Gareth Rushgrove | November 11, 2014

Today we’re releasing a preview of a new approach to managing your AWS infrastructure with Puppet, the Puppet Labs AWS module. This module allows you to describe the components of your infrastructure using the Puppet language, and then lets you create that infrastructure in AWS. If you’ve ever found yourself manually launching new instances or […]