2023-09-08: Content & Tooling Team Status Update
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Hello Again!!
Greetings and a wonderful Friday to all! Another week done and dusted here for the CAT Team in Belfast and Pune. There’s a plenty of work going on behind the scenes to keep everything ticking…
Modules
Dropping support for SQL Server 2012!
It’s already time to bid adieu to the support for SQL Server 2012 in our modules. While we have had a great run with it for over a decade now, the time has come to upgrade ourselves to use latest versions of the SQL Server.
Tooling
Meet Gavin!
Some exciting news - this week, we welcomed Gavin Didrichsen to the team! Gavin transferred from puppet’s support team to tooling, bringing plenty of expertise and ideas with him. Here’s a few words from the Gavin:
“Hello I’m Gavin and have been at Puppet for almost 3 years. Most of this time has been with our fantastic support team, but more recently I’ve started working with the CAT team focusing on Tools to ease and enhance the developer experience for Puppet. I’ve been a puppet enthusiast ever since introducing Puppet to a TV set-top box development team almost 10 years ago. After automating a backend test system and reducing a week-long manual process to 10 minutes, I was pretty much sold. They still use the puppet automation!
I’m married and have 2 sons. We all love hanging out, going for walks. My wife and I try to go as often as we can to a local keep fit class nearby. Sometimes we just go for coffee.
I am on github as “gavindidrichsen” and community Puppet Slack as “Gavin Didrichsen”. "
Tool Adoption
Recently, there has been efforts by the team to revamp and redefine our tool adoption process. This will help ensure that we continue to provide and support new tools to help ease the load during your puppet development. Stay tuned for more on this in the coming weeks…
Internal Metrics
Finally, some work has been going on in the background to revamp our internal metrics. We provide a github metrics collector written in golang, which periodically collects repo data on each of our tools and pushes this to a Google BigQuery instace, these metrics are then surfaced in a grafana instance. You can check out the repo and docker image here for youself and alter to fit your use case.
Community Contributions
We’d like to thank the following people in the Puppet Community for their contributions over this past week:
puppetlabs-postgresql#1513: “spec file: remove ruby shebang”, thanks to bastelfreakpuppetlabs-postgresql#1512: “Flexible password encryption in pg hba conf”, thanks to cruelsmithpuppetlabs-postgresql#1511: “spec file: remove ruby shebang”, thanks to bastelfreakpuppetlabs-postgresql#1510: “add port and psql_path parameter to initdb define”, thanks to SimonHoenscheidpuppetlabs-postgresql#1509: “server::instance::initdb: simplify if condition”, thanks to bastelfreakpuppetlabs-postgresql#1508: “PDK update 2.7.0->3.0.0”, thanks to SimonHoenscheidpuppetlabs-postgresql#1507: “variables to parameters for tablespace/schema/reassign_owned_by”, thanks to SimonHoenscheidpuppetlabs-postgresql#1506: “server::schema: Drop unused $version variable”, thanks to bastelfreakpuppetlabs-postgresql#1505: “puppet/systemd: Allow 6.x”, thanks to SimonHoenscheidpuppetlabs-postgresql#1504: “service name should be unique to allow instances”, thanks to SimonHoenscheidpuppetlabs-postgresql#1503: “unique resource titles to allow multiple instances”, thanks to SimonHoenscheidpuppetlabs-postgresql#1500: “Update REFERENCE.md”, thanks to SimonHoenscheidpuppetlabs-postgresql#1499: “set datatype for directories to Stdlib::Absolutepath”, thanks to SimonHoenscheidpuppetlabs-postgresql#1498: “Prefer $connect_settings over explicit parameters”, thanks to bastelfreakpuppetlabs_spec_helper#406: “README.md: replace git:// with https://”, thanks to kenyon