Category Archives: Puppet
A Tour of the Puppet Dashboard
Rein just announced the 1.0 release of our new Puppet Dashboard, with screen shots: We’re going to take a tour of the newly released Puppet Dashboard web front-end. Puppet Dashboard is (or will be) a web front end that keeps … Continue reading
Ubuntu Developer Summit
It looks like I’ll be starting to blog on our main company site before too long, which will hopefully include someone standing behind me with a sharp stick, poking me and making me write more. In the meantime, here’s my … Continue reading
PuppetCamp 2009
It’s a great week to do a bit of blog resurrection – it’s PuppetCamp in San Francisco. The conference itself is nearly done – we’re nearly done with the actual presentations and will be moving on to the self-organized sessions. … Continue reading
RESTful Puppet and You
No, I’m actually not dead, as much as it might appear from my lack of updates. Fortunately there are other means to verify my vitality. Anyway, the goal here is to help you understand how the imminent release of Puppet … Continue reading
Puppet makes it into MacPorts
Nigel Kersten just let me know that Puppet and Facter are now in MacPorts. That’s one more distribution (or in this case, pseudo-distribution) that Puppet’s a part of. Thanks Nigel.
RailsMachine Releases Puppet Rails Tool
RailsMachine has announced their project Moonshine, which provides a pure Ruby interface to Puppet and is essentially custom-built to simplify Rails deployment and management: One of the things that separates Moonshine from other solutions like Chef and Sprinkle is that … Continue reading
Puppet wins Fukuoka Ruby Award
Puppet was one of the winners of the Ruby Award handed out by the Fukuoka Prefecture in Japan. The Climate Information Toolkit won the top prize, and Puppet was one of three to win the second tier of prize. Unfortunately, … Continue reading
Summary of February 2009 Puppet Developer call
We had another developer call last night, and until I can get the audio posted, here’s a basic summary. Development Workflow We led the discussion with a conversation about how the development workflow will change now that we’re finally releasing … Continue reading
Golden Image or Foil Ball?
The essential basis of running services in “the cloud” is that they run in virtual machines, which come with their own idioms and practices for managing them. One of the mainstays of managing virtual machines (‘VMs’) uses what’s called ‘golden … Continue reading
Puppet on the IT Management Podcast
I was a guest on last week’s IT Management Podcast again last week, and we ended up talking a lot about Puppet and the difficulties in running an open source software company. As always, John Willis and Coté are informed … Continue reading