Puppet names former Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abbey Kearns as CTO

Puppet, the Portland-based infrastructure automation company, today announced that it has named former Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abby Kearns as its new CTO. She’s replacing Deepak Giridharagopal, who became CTO in 2016. Kearns stepped down from her role at the Cloud Foundry Foundation earlier this month after holding that position since 2016. At the […] Continue reading Puppet names former Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abbey Kearns as CTO

How industries are evolving their DevOps and security practices

There’s significant variation in DevOps maturation and security integration across the financial services, government, retail, telecom, and technology industries, according to Puppet’s report based on nearly 3,000 responses. “Integrating se… Continue reading How industries are evolving their DevOps and security practices

Adopting DevOps practices leads to improved security posture

A strong DevOps culture based on collaboration and sharing across teams, leads to an improved security posture, according to Puppet. Twenty-two percent of the firms at the highest level of security integration having reached an advanced stage of DevOps… Continue reading Adopting DevOps practices leads to improved security posture

How to Create Puppet Bolt Tasks: Understanding Modules and Tasks


Puppet Bolt tasks are scripts that you can run on Linux or Windows systems. A task contains a script, completely unmodified, written in any language supported by the remote system on which the task will run.

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Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth on dueling open-source foundations

At the Open Infrastructure Summit, which was previously known as the OpenStack Summit, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth used his keynote to talk about the state of open-source foundations — and what often feels like the increasing competition between them. “I know for a fact that nobody asked to replace dueling vendors with dueling foundations,” he […] Continue reading Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth on dueling open-source foundations

Azure VM Image Builder Makes Customization of ISO and Marketplace Images Easier


Azure VM Image Builder is a new tool for Microsoft’s cloud that lets you provision ISO or Azure Marketplace images with your own customizations, like security settings or installed software.

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Puppet Bolt Agentless Automation for Linux and Windows Server


Puppet Bolt is an agentless and masterless remote task runner that you can use with your existing PowerShell, Python, and Bash scripts.

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Install and Configure Puppet Enterprise Part 2: Set Up Puppet Enterprise 5

In the final part of this two-part article, Russell shows you how to install Puppet Enterprise on Red Hat Linux.

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