With Hiera, you can externalize your systems' configuration data and easily understand how those values are assigned to your servers. With that data separated from your Puppet code, you then can ...

As our world becomes ever more complex so do the systems that run so much of it. One way to deal with that is to automate, and to do that, you first need to break down complex components into simpler ...

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Moving to extend the reach of its IT automation portfolio into new realms, Puppet Labs today announced an upgrade to Puppet Enterprise that adds support for Amazon Web Services, bare metal servers, ...

If tweaks to your Puppet setups are causing breakage across your deployments, GitHub's Octocatalog-diff ensures that new Puppet settings don't wreck old ones Puppet, the configuration management and ...