So I've actually been up to my neck in a rather huge Puppet deployment with many thousands of clients over the last 6 months, and am curious as to whether we have any other Arsians doing work with ...

When James Turnbull had his first look at the Puppet configuration management system two years ago, he had no inkling of the extent to which he would get involved in the project. Turnbull works in the ...

As part of building up the background to my recent user story about Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) and its work with Puppet, I took the opportunity to speak with Deepak Giridharagopal, Puppet’s CTO. As ...

The DevOps stream from development to operations is a single overall process with a multitude of tasks underneath that push it along. Feedback loops must be maintained to ensure that any issues picked ...

Any Puppet deployment larger than a smattering of servers will require custom code and a fairly deep knowledge of Linux/Unix internals. This is not a click-and-drag tool, nor a Web-based configuration ...

Puppet Labs has equipped its namesake open-source configuration management software with the ability to control OpenStack cloud deployments, the company plans to announce on Tuesday. Puppet’s new ...

Puppet is open source and has an Australian link in James Turnbull, a well-known figure in FOSS circles, who is employed by a large corporate in Melbourne. Turnbull has written an excellent guide ...

In a previous article, "Provisioning Docker with Puppet", in the December 2016 issue, I covered one of the ways you can install the Docker service onto a new system with Puppet. By contrast, this ...

For the last few years, the game plan around the office was simple. The CEO would say “faster” and the CTO would say “cloud.” Everyone would nod and say, “Of course.” All good things come to an end.

Choosing the best configuration management tools is not easy. There is a raft of options on the market, ranging from simple command-line interface scripting tools to full-blown packaging and ...

At some point, you probably have installed or configured a piece of software on a server or desktop PC. Since you read Linux Journal, you've probably done a lot of this, as well as developed a range ...