When James Turnbull had his first look at the Puppet configuration management system two years ago, he had no inkling of the extent to which he would get involved in the project. Turnbull works in the ...

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 ...

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.

An example might be a module downloaded through the Puppet Forge module-sharing site that cannot use a class due to the nature of what it’s configuring. In this case, you will need to apply the module ...

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 ...