Arista Networks' EOS operating system now includes a native Puppet agent. Sounds cool, no? Now I'll explain what this means. The advantage of having a native agent in the network OS is that managers ...

Puppet, the company that makes automation software for managing systems and delivering software, has introduced Puppet Bolt, an open-source, agentless multiplatform tool for running commands, scripts, ...

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 ...

I am a terrible person. I like Puppet for configuration management, and I used to manage my personal infrastructure with crude serverless Puppet (git repo, run puppet apply as needed), which worked ...