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A Fond Farewell For Now to Community Day & Norman
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 in Posts
IAC Community Day Background The Infrastructure Automation Content (IAC) team formed from the merger of 4 core content-focused teams (Modules, Windows, Cloud & Containers, and Networking), maintaining forty-five open-source supported Puppet …
The future of the Puppet Developer Kit (PDK)
Tuesday, September 14, 2021 in Posts
The Puppet Developer Kit was launched in 2017 to help our users develop high quality modules faster and over the years, it has seen regular development towards that goal. It was designed to be a single install that would provide everything you needed …
Puppet Content Templates 0.1.0 🚀
Friday, June 04, 2021 in Posts
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PDK Puppet Content Templates 0.1.0 released ✨ We are proud to announce the first release for the new PDK templating system: Puppet Content Templates (PCT). Puppet Content Templates codify a structure to produce content for any Puppet Product that can …
Run multi-node module tests with cloud continuous integration (CI) in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Friday, May 07, 2021 in Posts
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Multi-node modules are modules which use multiple nodes to run integration tests. Integration testing is where you set up multiple Virtual Machines (VM) or containers, and test interactions between them. For example, this could be: Installing Puppet …
Converting to use Puppetized DSC Modules
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 in Posts
What’s new with DSC and Puppet? To check out our reasons on why we think converting your module is a good idea, check out these blog posts written by Michael: DSC accouncement post DSC release post The blog posts cover information including: …
Troubleshooting Puppetized DSC Modules
Monday, January 25, 2021 in Posts
[An edited version of this post was also published on the OSPAssist Portal as Troubleshooting Puppetized DSC modules and Advanced troubleshooting: dig deeper with pry] Authoring Puppet manifests using the new Puppetized DSC Resources is, like using …
Reaching the IAC Team
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 in Posts
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{:height=“170px” width=“170px”} To improve collaboration and avoid issues falling through the cracks, we have collected information on all the ways to get in contact with us. Whether this be to review a PR, highlight a nasty …
Puppetize Digital 2020 - Content Selection
Monday, November 23, 2020 in Posts
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Last week saw Puppetize Digital 2020, our annual conference on all things Puppet. Over the weekend, the production team uploaded all the talks to the Puppet YouTube channel, so if you missed anything, you can now catch up at your own leisure. There …
Collecting GCP info and system metrics for Honeycomb
Monday, October 05, 2020 in Posts
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For a new and exciting project, the team is currently onboarding on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) development. I can’t wait until I’m able to share more, but for now I can only say we’re looking at a Sinatra-hosted Ruby API server. To …
Docker params change detection
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 in Posts
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Docker params change detection The problem was reported by a client with the ticket MODULES-10734. After analysis, we discovered that we don’t have parameter change detection mechanisms. In this blog post, we try to explain the problem in …