The 2011 FOSDEM conference had a Configuration and Systems Management developer room on its second day. This first meeting about configuration management and automation with open source tools was ...

So I've actually been up to my neck in a rather huge Puppet deployment with many thousands of clients over the last 6 months, and am curious as to whether we have any other Arsians doing work with ...

The DevOps stream from development to operations is a single overall process with a multitude of tasks underneath that push it along. Feedback loops must be maintained to ensure that any issues picked ...

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 ...

To manage hundreds or thousands of servers can be a time-consuming and -- until recently -- error-prone task for IT operations admins. Configuration management tools, such as Puppet, Chef and Ansible, ...

Any Puppet deployment larger than a smattering of servers will require custom code and a fairly deep knowledge of Linux/Unix internals. This is not a click-and-drag tool, nor a Web-based configuration ...

Virtualization software provider VMware has invested US$30 million in Puppet Labs, which makes a widely used, open-source operations management software package called Puppet. Luke Kanies, founder and ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the last few years, the game plan around the office was simple. The CEO would say “faster” and the CTO would say “cloud.” Everyone would nod and say, “Of course.” All good things come to an end.

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 ...