What is continuous delivery? And what are the benefits of the continuous delivery pipeline? This strategy has evolved in a world where platform engineering is on the rise and more and more organizations rely on automation through code to achieve their goals. Times have changed. Most organizations now rely on continuous delivery as an essential part of their development pipelines.

You’re scaling your IT infrastructure so you can do more – deploying across clouds and data center, adding servers, coding like crazy. Great! But how do you keep it all from falling apart? Policy as code is an approach to managing IT that strategically leverages infrastructure as code (IaC) and compliance as code to manage consistent policies across complex IT environments. Sounds perfect, right?

Puppet 8 is here, and it’s included in the latest release of Puppet Enterprise. It’s the biggest update to Puppet since Puppet 7’s first release in November 2020, and it carries a host of enhancements and improvements to make managing and scaling your infrastructure easier than ever. Read on for a list of the major changes included in Puppet 8, how they benefit you, and how to get going with Puppet 8 fast.

If you moved to the cloud hoping for cost savings and scalability only to find that your cloud costs are ballooning, your cloud performance isn’t up to snuff, or you’re always struggling to align compliance regulations with your cloud deployment, it might be time to look into cloud repatriation as an alternative to public cloud infrastructure.

What makes Linux security unique? What special considerations does Linux have across security standards like those set by The Center for Internet Security (CIS)? Every OS has their own unique considerations, and Linux is no different. We’ll also explore how Puppet can fit within your broader Linux security plan to help make hardening Linux that much easier.