When James Turnbull had his first look at the Puppet configuration management system two years ago, he had no inkling of the extent to which he would get involved in the project. Turnbull works in the ...

As part of building up the background to my recent user story about Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) and its work with Puppet, I took the opportunity to speak with Deepak Giridharagopal, Puppet’s CTO. As ...

Any Puppet deployment larger than a smattering of servers will require custom code and a fairly deep knowledge of Linux/Unix internals. This is not a click-and-drag tool, nor a Web-based configuration ...

For the last few years, the game plan around the office was simple. The CEO would say “faster” and the CTO would say “cloud.” Everyone would nod and say, “Of course.” All good things come to an end.

In a previous article, "Provisioning Docker with Puppet", in the December 2016 issue, I covered one of the ways you can install the Docker service onto a new system with Puppet. By contrast, this ...

Which of these DevOps solutions is best for your enterprise? Read this helpful feature comparison of Chef and Puppet to learn more. If you’re looking for DevOps tools, there’s a good chance that Chef ...