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Two years into the pandemic: the state of DevOps salaries

For the second year in a row, we have published a pandemic-era DevOps Salary Report. It’s no surprise that the pandemic catapulted every type of company into a digital transformation frenzy. We have done our best to distinguish between temporary shifts and long-term trends dictated by a newly hyper-digital world. In 2021, we are grappling not only with the reality of the pandemic, but with the Great Resignation – at least in the U.S.

Get your Puppet fundamentals free with new instructor-led training

Want to land one of the 20,000 jobs calling for Puppet experience? Or perhaps you already know Puppet but want to advance your skills in order to scale your infrastructure even more quickly and securely? Starting this May, we’re making it easier than ever for you to learn Puppet with an all-new instructor-led curriculum and the opportunity to take all of our Fundamental Core instructor-led training for free.

CentOS 8 is end-of-life: Now what?

There were many reasons people came to use CentOS as an alternative Linux platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). CentOS was originally built as a downstream release of RHEL, which was free to use without support. CentOS became the de facto standard for many organizations that did not want to use RHEL for production workload, since it’s basically the same thing, just rebranded.

How certificates work in Puppet

This video gives you a basic introduction to certificates and explains how they’re used to secure Puppet communications. Certificates help to provide secure connections between different parts of your infrastructure as those parts communicate with each other. When you run the agent for the first time, it submits a CSR (Certificate Signing Request) to the primary server. Then the CSR is reviewed by the Puppet administrator and either accepted or denied.