IT Services will start the first phase of a planned upgrade to Version 5 of Puppet (we are currently running Version 4). This first phase will update some components of Puppet that will allow us to ...

The automation tool chooses Clojure on the JVM to improve speed and programming convenience, and shows the evolution of Puppet's design philosophy Puppet Labs, creator of the versatile automation tool ...

Puppet has provided baked-in Nagios support for a long time now. When combined with Exported Resources, Puppet is well suited to manage an intelligent Nagios configuration where nodes are ...

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This morning Puppet Labs unveiled a new features its DevOps automation software and a constellation of new company initiatives during PuppetConf 2014. The major updates to the Puppet open source and ...

For the developer well-versed in Puppet, v3.0 brings welcome changes With virtualization driving the meteoric rise in server instance counts, it’s no wonder that so many configuration automation tools ...

Puppet, a tool for automated software delivery and operation, has announced the updates latest in Puppet Enterprise 2016.2 and Project Blueshift, along with a new set of Puppet modules. With this ...

Pity the corporate systems administrator (SA). After all, the number of servers needed to run all of a company's computer applications is proliferating even as IT budgets get tight executive scrutiny.

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 ...