HashiCorp Terraform is an open source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that is widely used to deploy cloud infrastructure in the public cloud, such as AWS and Azure, along with on-premises VMware vSphere environments. One of the challenges is developing a method for bootstrapping the instances with configuration management agents such as the Puppet Enterprise agent.

The emergence of GitOps has been an interesting and important recent development in the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) space.

ICYMI: We recently announced that Cherwell selected Resolve as their top partner for discovery and dependency mapping. The Resolve platform seamlessly integrates with Cherwell products to provide customers deep visibility into complex infrastructure and business-critical applications, as well as to ensure their CMDBs are always up-to-date and accurate.

Today we are pleased to announce the release of Puppet Remediate 1.4. This release brings together the dynamic vulnerability data and prioritization capabilities in Puppet Remediate with Puppet Enterprise’s industry-leading automation to help organizations improve their security posture and reduce the risk of security incidents.

HashiCorp Packer is a free and open source tool for creating golden images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Packer makes it easy to codify VM images for Microsoft Azure. In this blog post we’ll look at how to use HashiCorp Packer and Puppet Bolt to define our VM templates in code.