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 ...

It is in this sense that Puppet, which started out in 2005 as a way to programmatically control the configuration management of servers and systems software and is one of the darlings of the DevOps ...

In DevOps environments, managing servers is becoming a difficult task, but it’s one that is crucial to the efficiency and smooth operation of the end user experience. Configuration, provisioning and ...

When systems engineers build or repair computer software or hardware, they need consistent processes in place to keep it running smoothly. Configuration management is the name for this set of ...