Podcasts

The Puppet Podcast features Puppet community members talking about the latest trends in configuration management and cloud automation as well as DevOps culture. Want to be on the Pulling the Strings Podcast? Learn more.

Recent episodes

How Puppet's open source DNA is paving the path ahead
Season 4 — Episode 4
Puppet CTO Abby Kearns and Chief Architect Chip Childers join Ben Ford to share their thoughts on the Puppet open source roadmap and community engagement.
The best part of the PowerShell Gallery is that it's on the Puppet Forge
Season 4 — Episode 3
The DSC configuration engine is the standard way to manage Windows systems, and it’s incredibly powerful. Now it's easier to use too, because all the PowerShell Gallery DSC resources are only a `puppet module install` away.
A paradigm shift: Puppet and ServiceNow integrations
Season 4 — Episode 2
Hear from Puppet's Integrations team about the benefits of expanding into a new workflow paradigm as they built our ServiceNow integrations.
Learn at your convenience with Puppet Practice Labs
Season 4 — Episode 1
Learning new tools is hard enough on its own. Why should there be impediments like installing software or setting up a working environment? Puppet Practice Labs smooth out these road bumps for you, and they’re free to use!
Being out at work and the importance of role models
Season 3 — Episode 8
Without role models to light the path, it can be challenging to reveal one’s true self -- both at work and in your personal life. Listen to Melissa Casburn share her journey on stepping into the role of role model.
CTO Chronicles: The DevOps Edition
Season 3 — Episode 7
Experience the power of the combined insights of Puppet CTOs Abby Kearns and Deepak Giridharagopal as they share their wisdom and discuss how two CTOs are better than one to achieve maximum automation at scale.
The keys to unlock your developer voice
Season 3 — Episode 6
Ben Ford drops details on how to make your voice heard and shares the numerous ways Puppet has enhanced its Developer Experience for the community.
Beaker's past, present and future
Season 3 — Episode 5
Lucy Wyman, Gene Liverman, and Trevor Vaughan drop knowledge on the future of Beaker and why it’s different from Litmus.
Virtualization & Kubernetes: Why another abstraction?
Season 3 — Episode 4
Martez Reed and Bruno Andrade of Shipa talk about Kubernetes, virtualization, and how to avoid vendor lock-in.
Life after the State of DevOps Report - Scaling DevOps
Season 3 — Episode 3
Nigel Kersten and Michael Stahnke share insights on the state of the DevOps industry and key trends in 2021.
The gateway elixir to automated infrastructure testing
Season 3 — Episode 2
Dylan Ratcliffe explains how Onceover testing helps keep your Puppet Control repository clean and error-free.
Puppet Comply
Season 3 — Episode 1
Alex Hin drills down into the history of compliance and explains how to reduce the struggle with Puppet Comply.
The benefits of using Hiera Data Manager
Season 2 — Episode 10
Martin Alfke shares insight on Hiera Data Manager and its importance for data analysis.
Halloween Edition: 2020 DevOps horror stories
Season 2 — Episode 9
It’s Halloween 2020 again with Ben Ford, Rob Nelson, and Mike Smith sharing their DevOps horror stories.
The power of UX design at Puppet
Season 2 — Episode 8
Rick Monro sheds light on Puppet’s design system and the importance of a strategic UX experience.
OSP Assist: The one-stop Open Source Portal
Season 2 — Episode 7
On this episode of Pulling the Strings Podcast, Claire Hernandez and Jesse Brennan will calm your nerves with four words: Open Source Puppet Assist
Open Source Stewards Unite
Season 2 — Episode 6
Lucy Wyman runs down the evolution and importance of Puppet’s Open Source Stewards.
Hydra: leveraging Slack to build seamlessly
Season 2 — Episode 5
Martez Reed drops value bombs on Hydra and leveraging Slack to build seamlessly via cloud-native capabilities.
How to build an awesome open source community
Season 2 — Episode 4
Tim Meusel and Robert Müller share how to build an awesome open source community and their Vox Pupuli Puppet lessons learned.
Modules, APIs, & SLAs: Automating Backups with Rubrik & Puppet
Season 2 — Episode 3
Rebecca Fitzhugh of Rubrik discusses how to automate your SLAs with Puppet and a simple way to quickly install Backup Connectors across a fleet of servers.
All coding and no games keeps the fun away
Season 2 — Episode 2
Ben Ford and Garrett Rowell of Puppet discuss how a DevOps virtual scavenger hunt was developed to sharpen your mental & technical skills.
How to clean up the DevOps dumping ground with Relay
Season 2 — Episode 1
Eric Sorenson and Melissa Sussmann discuss Puppet’s event-driven automation, Relay, and how it helps clean up the “DevOps Dumping Ground”.
What's new with the Puppet VS Code Extension, anyway?
Season 1 — Episode 15
James Pogran is on a mission to simplify the developer experience for Puppet practitioners. He's here to talk about the Puppet VS Code Extension.
Continuous Delivery and Cloud Native Infrastructure with Nebula Team
Season 1 — Episode 14
In this episode, Eric Sorenson and Melissa Sussmann will be exploring the challenges that DevOps engineers face in using cloud-native infrastructure and how Puppet can help with your deployments.
2019 State of DevOps Report chat: Security is boring when it's working
Season 1 — Episode 13
Nigel Kersten and CircleCI’s Mike Stahnke go behind-the-scenes of the 2019 report to talk about the shift to a security focus report and where they see challenges.
Doing the DevOps with Yasmin Rajabi and Nick Maludy
Season 1 — Episode 12
In today’s episode, we talk to Nick Maludy DevOps Manager at Encore Technologies.
Automation and parenting: data-driven diaper changing and more
Season 1 — Episode 11
We’re covering a few DevOps parallels, data-driven diaper changing, and, apparently, *Baby Shark.*
Contributor Summit was a lot of firsts. What's next?
Season 1 — Episode 10
Last month, we spent two and a half days in Budapest with some of our best community friends. Let's catch up on Contributor Summit, what we learned, and more.
Introducing Puppet at Scale: a panel discussion on IT automation and model trains
Season 1 — Episode 9
Sometimes big challenges need to be tested and solved for at a much smaller scale. In this case, it’s the 1:87 model train scale. Learn more about a new way to bring people together and automate with Bolt.
The best of the rest of Puppetize PDX
Season 1 — Episode 8
You've probably heard that we've got a conference coming up soon. But have you also heard about the exciting additional events going on around Puppetize PDX? We're coming back home to Portland, and are super excited to show you some of our favorite parts of our city.
If I tell you, I'd have to kill you: Puppet in Federal Environments
Season 1 — Episode 7
In this podcast, Eric talks with Bryan Belanger from Fervid about working with Puppet in highly regulated compute environments.
Contributor Summit 2019: Budapest
Season 1 — Episode 6
Ben Ford wants you to meet him in Budapest for Contributor Summit 2019.
Community Spotlight: Vox Pupuli
Season 1 — Episode 5
In this episode of the Puppet Podcast, we talk with Eric Putnam and Hunter Haugen about Vox Pupuli, a backbone of the open source Puppet community.
Bolt: Uniting Models and Tasks
Season 1 — Episode 4
A discussion about Bolt with Yasmin Rajabi and Eric Sorenson of Puppet.
Guest Feature: Learning from the greybeards with @DevOpsFables
Season 1 — Episode 3
George Pandzik (@DevOpsFables) talks about the patterns from yesterday that we should continue applying towards the new ways of working.
Community Spotlight: Corey's Bitcoin Miner
Season 1 — Episode 2
This episode highlights an interesting use case Corey Osman found for Puppet and Bolt.
Community Spotlight: Puppet Debugger
Season 1 — Episode 1
In this episode of the Puppet Podcast, we talk with Corey Osman about Puppet Debugger, the command line REPL debugging tool he built.

Podcasts

How Puppet's open source DNA is paving the path ahead

The best part of the PowerShell Gallery is that it's on the Puppet Forge

A paradigm shift: Puppet and ServiceNow integrations

Learn at your convenience with Puppet Practice Labs

Being out at work and the importance of role models

CTO Chronicles: The DevOps Edition

The keys to unlock your developer voice

Beaker's past, present and future

Virtualization & Kubernetes: Why another abstraction?

Life after the State of DevOps Report - Scaling DevOps

The gateway elixir to automated infrastructure testing

Puppet Comply

The benefits of using Hiera Data Manager

Halloween Edition: 2020 DevOps horror stories

The power of UX design at Puppet

OSP Assist: The one-stop Open Source Portal

Open Source Stewards Unite

Hydra: leveraging Slack to build seamlessly

How to build an awesome open source community

Modules, APIs, & SLAs: Automating Backups with Rubrik & Puppet

All coding and no games keeps the fun away

How to clean up the DevOps dumping ground with Relay

What's new with the Puppet VS Code Extension, anyway?

Continuous Delivery and Cloud Native Infrastructure with Nebula Team

2019 State of DevOps Report chat: Security is boring when it's working

Doing the DevOps with Yasmin Rajabi and Nick Maludy

Automation and parenting: data-driven diaper changing and more

Contributor Summit was a lot of firsts. What's next?

Introducing Puppet at Scale: a panel discussion on IT automation and model trains

The best of the rest of Puppetize PDX

If I tell you, I'd have to kill you: Puppet in Federal Environments

Contributor Summit 2019: Budapest

Community Spotlight: Vox Pupuli

Bolt: Uniting Models and Tasks

Guest Feature: Learning from the greybeards with @DevOpsFables

Community Spotlight: Corey's Bitcoin Miner

Community Spotlight: Puppet Debugger