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Puppet Enterprise migration is not a religious war. It is a bill, a console, and a compiler farm. OpenVox is the community continuation of Puppet open-source. If your modules, Hiera, and r10k control …
In January 2025, the Puppet open-source community launched OpenVox — a community-driven fork of Puppet designed to ensure the future of open-source configuration management remains in the hands of i…
Puppet Primer IV – The Manifest and The ClassThus far we’ve covered a lot of ground in the minut…
The Puppet Primer is a long-form teaching series published on questy.org. It is written for practitioners who want the language, not a vendor slide.Read in orderPuppet Primer I — What is Puppet? Pup…
Puppet Primer III – ResourcesWelcome back to the Puppet Primer series. As I mentioned in the first installment of this series, we were to cover resources in depth later, and this is that article.In …
(Puppet Primer II – “The Conversation”)What is a “Syste…
One of the perennial problems with a platform like P…
Not every organization has the in-house expertise — or the desire — to manage their own configuration management infrastructure. That's where Configuration Management as a Service comes in.Wh…
In my Puppet travels over the last 10 or so years, one topic has continued to arise time a…
Why tools alone won’t help you reach automation Nirvana.DevOps consulting and implem…
Sounds crazy to those who know, but the world out there is only just starting to get the DevOps momentum (much less the DevSecOps, SecOps, et al. momentum) even though it’s already a 10 year old ter…
RecapLet’s see where we are.1. We have a Puppet Enterprise Split Installation consisting of a Puppet Master, PuppetDB, and Puppet Enterprise Console.1. We have a Load Balancer with two compiler node…
If you’ve been following for the past 5 installments, we’re nearing the end! Note that each of the prior articles required other things to have been completed before reading/performing the contain…
As in the previous installment, you need to have already completed a few steps before arriving at this post. You should have already completed a “split installation” (Documented here). Also, your …
As in the previous installment, you need to have already completed a few steps before arriving at this post. You should have already completed a “split installation” (Documented here). Also, your …
You should have completed a split install before beginning this section. You can find the Split Installation documentation at Puppet’s Website, or the first installment of this tutorial here. If you…
Installing Puppet Enterprise has been made remarkably easier as time has gone on. The efforts of Puppet Labs (I still can’t get used to simply ‘Puppet’) to make the installation as seamless and …
In my former life as a consultant, I had to install all manner of configurations of Puppet for clients. Some were small and some were large, but none were VERY large. One of the big things I was findi…
PuppetConf PortlandAhh, Portland! What a great place to have PuppetConf this year. The home of Pup…