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Puppet: Best Practices

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This is 4th part of the multi-part series covering Automation, provisioning and Configuration Management. In this article best practices for Puppet shall be covered. Puppet, one of the most well-liked configuration management tools, can also turn out to be complicated at times. In this post I’m going to briefly go through a few practices that have […]

31 Reference Architectures for DevOps and Continuous Delivery

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At QCon London, David Farley (@davefarley77) told the audience that “continuous delivery changes the economics of software delivery”.  I could not agree more. If you have been drawn to the evangelists like David Farley, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim, you’ll know that high performance IT organizations are seeing a massive payoff in their continuous delivery […]

Automation, Provisioning and Configuration Management with PUPPET

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This is 3rd part of the multi-part series covering Automation, provisioning and Configuration Management. In this follow up article best practices for Puppet shall be covered. Why Puppet? While every system administrator comes up with more progressive systems to be managed, the automation of every mundane task is increasingly significant. Instead of achieving in-house developed scripts, […]

Puppet Labs talks Docker and containerization

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Last week Puppet Labs released a new version of Puppet Enterprise that brought forward a number of new features, including those to Puppet Node manager that helps automate the provisioning of infrastructure from containers to bare metal, as well as a new AWS module that helps automate provisioning, configuration and management of AWS resources using […]

11 DevOps start-ups funded for a busy 2015

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Scripts or Machine Images, What is the Best Way to bootstrap

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Between the advent of handy tools, like Chef and Puppet, and virtual machine infrastructures, like VMWare and AWS, I feel like there has been a great debate about how to bootstrap machines.   It seems like there are two extremes.  On one side is heavy reliance on machine images (AMIs, in AWS speak) or scripting (recipes, […]

DevOps with Purpose: It’s about your tools!

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This is Part Three in a four-part series. In Part One, I focused on the critical first step of defining DevOps with a purpose by thinking about DevOps in the context of your organization’s applications. In Part Two, I provided four tips to fostering a DevOps culture in your organization. By now you’ve hopefully noticed […]

Trolling PuppetConf: Surveying Configuration Management

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Troll (Internet) In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord … by starting arguments or upsetting people,[1] by posting inflammatory,[2] extraneous, or off-topic messages in a… community …with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[3] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[4]  -Wikipedia When I stopped by […]

Security automation with DevOps: show me the code!

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Last week Andrew Storms put up a good post hinting at the promise of security automation in [SecDevOps: Security Automation By Example – The Firewall Change]. He included an example of automating a series of actions when a firewall rule is changed. It’s a good article, although I’m increasingly convinced there’s no such thing as […]