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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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puppet October 31, 2024

Base Language Containment Constructs – Manifests and Classes

Puppet Primer IV – The Manifest and The ClassThus far we’ve covered a lot of ground in the minutia of the varied component in Puppet. We’ve talked about what the Puppet platform is and some foun…

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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 October 14, 2024

Comprehensive Guide to Puppet Resources

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 …

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puppet October 10, 2024

Client-Server Model in Puppet Architecture Explained

(Puppet Primer II – “The Conversation”)What is a “System”?To get to the core of where we are heading with the entire idea of Puppet, and the larger concepts involved, we need to step back to…

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puppet September 11, 2024

Puppet Primer I – What is Puppet?

One of the perennial problems with a platform like Puppet is not the lack of documentation in and of itself, but moreso the lack of various levels of documentation at all levels of documentation consu…

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puppet October 27, 2015

PuppetConf 2015

PuppetConf PortlandAhh, Portland! What a great place to have PuppetConf this year. The home of Puppet Labs and all its varied food, drink, and other unnamed consumables give Portland a vibe like no ot…

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