Sanjay Mirchandani Builds Out Puppet While Keeping Culture Intact
I attended my first PupetConf last week in San Diego. While there I had a chance to sit down one on one with Sanjay Mirchandani who recently took over as CEO/President of Puppet from long time CEO and founder, Luke Kanies, who is now a member of the BOD. As this was my first meeting […]
Puppet Enterprise Raises the Bar for Enabling Fast, Reliable Software Change
San Diego, CA – October 20, 2016 – Puppet, the standard for automating the delivery and operation of the software that powers everything around us, today at PuppetConf announced the availability of major updates to Puppet Enterprise 2016.4, including a new integration with Jenkins. New reporting capabilities give teams significantly greater visibility into change, while […]
Puppet Announces New VMware vRealize Automation Plugin for Puppet Enterprise
San Diego, CA – October 20, 2016 – Puppet, the standard for automating the delivery and operation of the software that powers everything around us, today at PuppetConf announced a new VMware vRealize Automation plugin for Puppet Enterprise. The new vRealize Automation plugin for Puppet Enterprise enables self service provisioning of compliant infrastructure across on […]
Puppet Enterprise Raises the Bar for Enabling Fast, Reliable Software Change
San Diego, CA – October 20, 2016 – Puppet, the standard for automating the delivery and operation of the software that powers everything around us, today at PuppetConf announced the availability of major updates to Puppet Enterprise 2016.4, including a new integration with Jenkins. New reporting capabilities give teams significantly greater visibility into change, while […]
So Long to Configuration Management Systems?
When I was an operations architect at Ning way back in 2009, we were struggling to manage our deployments and configurations of more than 50 different application servers, or what the cool kids today call microservices. Applications were deployed across three distinct environments: development, staging and production. None of these environments were exactly the same […]
DevOps Chat: Michael Olson, Puppet, A Roadmap for DevOps Success
DevOps.com editor-in-chief Alan Shimel sat down with Michael Olson, senior product marketing manager at Puppet, to discuss a number of topics including the recent DevOps Salary survey that Puppet released. Another topic of discussion was the webinar Puppet is sponsoring and Michael is taking part in Sept, 27 titled, “A Roadmap for DevOps Success.” This […]
Puppet 2016 State of DevOps Salary Report: Where the Jobs Are
Puppet has released its 2016 State of DevOps Salary Report,. The report is based on the over 4,600 responses to its State of DevOps survey by IT professionals all over the world. This year’s report answers the question every politician would like to be able to answer: Where are those good jobs? The answer is […]
Orchestration: How To Get Everyone in Tune
Automation is key to success in the cloud. When your entire infrastructure is accessible via an API, it doesn’t make sense to configure and install your applications by hand. This is where orchestration tools come into play. Simply put: You will not have long-term success in the cloud unless an orchestration tool is a core […]
State of DevOps Report: Reaping Results
The newly released 2016 State of DevOps Report concludes that DevOps is “no longer a mere fad or buzzword,” but rather an established set of practices and cultural patterns. Yet, a closer look at this year’s findings reveals progress is far more substantial than any matters of perception. The report was conducted and analyzed by […]
Puppet 2016 State of DevOps Report Addresses the Most Pressing Issues in DevOps Today
Report Helps Organizations Understand the ROI of DevOps, Why Quality and Security Should Be Built In, and More PORTLAND, OR–(Marketwired – Jun 22, 2016) – Puppet, the standard for automating the delivery and operation of the software that powers everything around us, today announced the findings of the 2016 State of DevOps Report. Over the […]
Continuous Delivery: The Atlassian Way
Sonatype’s Mark Miller (@TSWAlliance) caught up with Ian Buchanan (@devpartisan) for our 2016 DevOps Leadership Series. Ian discussed his experiences at Atlassian, including continuous delivery, ChatOps, and use of tools such as Bamboo, Nexus, Puppet and Datadog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgRaYKHGqeQ Buchanan: I’m Ian Buchanan. I’m a Developer Partisan at Atlassian, which is developer advocacy for our developer tools. Miller: Ian, most people know […]
State of DevOps Survey – The Ultimate Feedback Loop
If there’s any consistent criticism of the larger DevOps movement, it’s that the talking heads and industry gadflies are driving the conversation, not the people in the trenches. All the thought leadership panels and “how-to” content (including the written and AV materials on this very site) make for great watercooler discussion, but lack the input […]
Puppet Ignites Era of Constantly Modern Software
PORTLAND, OR–(Marketwired – Apr 7, 2016) – Software underpins every part of modern life and commerce. Organizations rely on it to drive growth in all aspects of their business. According to market estimates, a $200 billion software infrastructure market is emerging as a result of mass migration to the cloud; pressure on IT to meet […]
Puppet, Like DevOps, Continues to Mature
Over the course of the last several years we have seen the DevOps movement continue to mature and evolve. It has moved beyond the early adopter, visionary stage into the mainstream of the market. Therefore, it should be no surprise that some of the leading solutions in the DevOps space should likewise mature and evolve […]
DevOps and ITaaS: Two Sides of the Same Coin
It seems IT practitioners haven’t realized yet the scale of digital disruption. Mired in the old IT thinking, they firmly believe that sophisticated tools are all businesses need to survive the ongoing digital disruption waves. Most of them warn, “Digital transformation is changing the way we do business, the way we deliver IT services must change, […]
In DevOps, Standardize to Minimize Architectural Debt
I recently reading a great Q&A with the Etsy CTO John Allspaw over on The New Stack, which contained some nuggets of good advice that increasingly are important as we continue the journey toward DevOps adoption. Of particular note were statements on the introduction of “new” things to solve problems. In a nutshell, Allspaw reinforced […]
JFrog, Puppet, Datical & Sendachi – Money Continues to Pour Into DevOps
The stock markets may be bearish, the price of oil is down the drain, but money continues to pour into the DevOps tools and solutions market. Just in the last few days 4 companies have announced significant new funding. Whether this is a last gasp before the doors slam shut, the tech industry thumbing their […]
Agile Infrastructure: Because your Infrastructure Deserves Tests, Too
Editor’s Note: This post was updated Aug. 4, 2018, to reflect an updated slide presentation at the end of the article. Infrastructure as Code is a truly powerful concept whose significance is best described with the words of Adam Jacob, CTO at Chef, in Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time: “Enable the reconstruction of […]
9 more open source DevOps tools we love
A while back we ran an article by Tomer Levy of Logz.io about 9 open source DevOps Tools that we loved. Of course how can you pick just 9 among so many worthy choices? So we wanted to revisit the open source DevOps tools space and add another 9 tools to the list. In a […]
DevOpsQA NJ Meetup – Configuration Management with Puppet
DevOpsQA NJ just held our September Meetup on Configuration Management with David Bowser and Jeremiah Sullivan from Puppet Labs and Michael Pereira from Syncsort as speakers. The venue was provided by ROKITT at a state-of-the-art office space with breathtaking views of NYC. Michael gave a great introduction to Environment Automation by giving a live demo […]
DevOps Connect: Rugged DevOps @Infosecurity Europe
We have assembled another top flight list of speakers for our DevOps Connect event @Infosecurity Europe. While pre-registration is sold out, if you are one of the 15,000+ attendees of Infosecurity Europe, you can still come to DevOps Connect on a first come, first serve basis. Details and schedule are below: When: Thursday 4th June, […]
Puppet: Best Practices
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
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 […]