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 you informed and in control of everything going on in your Puppet ecosystem. It currently functions [...]

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 quarterly blog post.
I was finally able to attend an Ubuntu Developer Summit last month, this time [...]

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.
We’ve had talks by Ohad Levy on The Foreman, Brice Figureau on StoreConfigs, Paul Nasrat on [...]

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 0.25 affects you.  And by “you” here I am, of course, making some assumptions – if [...]

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 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 out of the box, Moonshine comes with recipes for the same Ubuntu/Ruby Enterprise Edition/Apache/Passenger/MySQL stack that’s [...]

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, we could not travel to Japan to receive the award in person, but I was able [...]

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 the code in master as 0.25.  After much discussion, we largely concluded that the least-surprise solution was [...]

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 images’.  These are images built up complete with the services they’re supposed to run, so [...]

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 and interesting.  Give it a listen, and maybe subscribe to the whole series.