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Take Flight with a Best-of-Breed Solution from Cherwell + Resolve

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.

Introducing Puppet Enterprise tasks and workflows in Puppet Remediate

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.

Creating Azure VM images with Packer and Puppet Bolt

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.

The best of the PowerShell Gallery, right in your PE Console

PowerShell DSC might be the new kid on the block when it comes to configuration management, but it's certainly not lacking in power. DSC resources offer unprecedented hooks into the Windows operating system and provide straightforward configuration functionality that will make your Unix coworkers green with envy. It's a shame it's not easier to use….

Automating incident response with Relay and PagerDuty

DevOps and SRE teams are under intense pressure to reduce the Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) in resolving incidents. The latest integration between Relay and PagerDuty eliminates the “digital duct tape” by creating reusable, event-driven workflows to close the loop on incidents faster through Relay’s event-based automation approach.

How Automation Helps The Site Reliability Engineer

Automation has been with us for decades now and with years of experience and experimentation we are arriving at a best practice known as site reliability engineering. Site reliability engineering seeks to manage the risk imposed from multiple agile changes to protect business revenues and sustain positive customer experiences.