Back in 2005, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group was running about 600 Unix servers and they had a bunch of manual processes that slowed down their software delivery cycles and could cause huge delays. As David Sandilands, an infrastructure engineer at RBS, put it in a webinar he did with us, their releases weren’t quick enough.
Jun 12, 2020 by StackStorm Team In recent news Extreme Networks open-sourced EWC and contributed all previously “enterprise only” features to the StackStorm project operating under the Linux Foundation. This is very exciting news for the project’s future and its users.
In High-Performance Computing (HPC) uptime and performance are very important. HPC is an area of computing that often focuses on research and development, supporting teams with extremely complex problems they need to solve, and heavy computation mathematical problems, such as protein folding for vaccine development. To achieve this, HPC systems rely on high performance, the equipment is expensive, and the average customer has very high demands.
Editor's note: This change to the GPG signing key affects both Puppet Enterprise users and open source Puppet users. If you're using Puppet Enterprise, you'll be getting the new key in an upcoming release, or if you manually update your version of puppet-agent, you'll get it then. Thanks to Morgan Rhodes (@KnittyNerd) for all the technical details for this blog post.
Today we are pleased to announce the release of Puppet Remediate 1.3.0. This release includes new features requested by our customers, including even more capabilities to help you track and trace network activity, and give you more control of the data in your dashboard. Read on for background and a look at the new capabilities.
To manage your Windows desktops and servers based on the version / edition of Windows installed across your organisation, we’ve introduced Windows build-specific facts to Puppet. If you have a mix of Windows servers (Core and ServerStandard) and Windows desktops with varying versions and editions Windows, using Windows build-specific facts allows you to: Let’s see what all this looks like in some Puppet code.
In a previous article, we discussed KUDO and the benefits of it when you want to create or manage Operators. In this article we will focus on how to start to work with KUDO: Installation, using a predefined Operator and create your own one. Installing KUDO To install KUDO the first step is to install the CLI plugin in order to manage KUDO via CLI. Depending on your OS you can use a package manager like Brew or Krew, however installing the binary is a straightforward option to proceed.
In my Puppet travels over the last 10 or so years, one topic has continued to arise time and again, and that has been the ability to scale open source Puppet to thousands of nodes. While the best route is to use Puppet Enterprise for solid support and a team of talented engineers to help you in your configuration management journey, sometimes the right solution for your needs is open source Puppet.
Contributor and CFEngine Champion, Jon Henrik Bjørnstad, developed a tool for encrypting files using CFEngine host keys, called cf-keycrypt. Thank you to Jon Henrik and all of our contributors for helping improve the CFEngine project. Our developer, Vratislav Podzimek, recently took some time to review the cf-keycrypt code, and made many improvements and fixes.
