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openvox August 5, 2026

How to leave Puppet Enterprise without leaving Puppet

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 …

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openvox February 1, 2025

Getting Started with OpenVox: The Community Fork of Puppet

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…

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puppet October 31, 2024

Puppet Primer series (questy.org)

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…

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puppet September 11, 2024

Puppet Primer I – What is Puppet?

![](https://i0.wp.com/questy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/create-a-puppet-on-strings-maybe-with-a-technology-based.png?resize=900%2C675&ssl=1)One of the perennial problems with a platform like P…

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puppet May 12, 2020

Scaling Puppet Community

![](https://i0.wp.com/questy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/graph-growing.png.webp?resize=900%2C491&ssl=1)In my Puppet travels over the last 10 or so years, one topic has continued to arise time a…

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puppet April 28, 2017

Scaling Puppet Enterprise – Part VI – Code Manager

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…

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puppet April 18, 2017

Scaling Puppet Enterprise – Part II – Installation

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 …

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puppet April 17, 2017

Scaling Puppet Enterprise

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…

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puppet October 27, 2015

PuppetConf 2015

PuppetConf Portland![](https://i0.wp.com/questy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/puppetconf.jpg?resize=900%2C675&ssl=1)Ahh, Portland! What a great place to have PuppetConf this year. The home of Pup…

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