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Our Plans for Open Source Puppet in 2025

In early 2025, Puppet will begin to ship any new binaries and packages developed by our team to a private, hardened, and controlled location. Our intention with this change is not to limit community access to Puppet source code, but to address the growing risk of vulnerabilities across all software applications today while continuing to provide the security, support, and stability our customers deserve.

Buyer's Guide to Network Automation

In today’s complex IT landscape, network automation is no longer a luxury; it’s essential. With over 65% of enterprise networking activities still being manually, the shift toward automation presents a massive opportunity to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability. This guide will help IT leaders understand the market for network automation platforms, the key considerations for choosing a platform, and how these tools are redefining network management from Day 0 to Day N activities.

Network Operations Center. Relevant or Relic?

The short answer is: Absolutely! In a time when network health equals business health, Network Operations Centers (NOCs) stand as the foundation for operational excellence and innovation. The rapid pace of digital transformation is changing how organizations view network management, with NOCs at the heart of these discussions. Are NOCs relics of the past, or do they hold significant relevance in today’s business landscape?

Feature Friday #34: Self organizing groups with select_class

Did you know CFEngine can self-organize hosts into different groups? Say you have a few hosts that you want to reboot once a month. You don’t care when, but you want the hosts to self-organize and pick a date. The select_class attribute for classes type promises might be what you’re looking for. Let’s take a look.

Building a Scalable Infrastructure: Why DevOps Consulting is Essential for Growing Businesses

Discover how DevOps consulting empowers growing businesses to build scalable, resilient infrastructures. Learn key practices like automation, CI/CD, and collaboration to drive efficiency, reduce costs, and support rapid growth.
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Platform Engineering: A Deep Dive into Building the Foundation for Modern Software Delivery

In the ever-evolving software development landscape, platform engineering has risen to prominence as a pivotal practice, transforming how organizations build, maintain, and operate internal infrastructure. As digital transformation continues to accelerate, companies are under immense pressure to deliver software faster, more reliably, and at scale. Platform engineering provides the foundation for achieving this by creating and maintaining internal developer platforms (IDPs) that streamline the development process, enabling developers to focus on writing code rather than managing complex infrastructure.