Tag: reductive
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, we could not travel to Japan to receive the award in person, but I was able [...]
Posted: March 23rd, 2009 under Puppet.
Tags: award, japan, news, Puppet, reductive, ruby
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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 the code in master as 0.25. After much discussion, we largely concluded that the least-surprise solution was [...]
Posted: February 5th, 2009 under Development, OpenSource, Puppet.
Tags: Development, facter, OpenSource, Puppet, reductive, release, workflow
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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 images’. These are images built up complete with the services they’re supposed to run, so [...]
Posted: February 4th, 2009 under Puppet, Sysadmin.
Tags: cloud, ec2, goldenimage, Puppet, reductive
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