To manage hundreds or thousands of servers can be a time-consuming and -- until recently -- error-prone task for IT operations admins. Configuration management tools, such as Puppet, Chef and Ansible, ...

When James Turnbull had his first look at the Puppet configuration management system two years ago, he had no inkling of the extent to which he would get involved in the project. Turnbull works in the ...

Puppet configuration management users have several options to manage Windows boxes. The best one depends on the IT deployment and admin skills. Configuration management tools largely started in the ...

As part of building up the background to my recent user story about Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) and its work with Puppet, I took the opportunity to speak with Deepak Giridharagopal, Puppet’s CTO. As ...

Any Puppet deployment larger than a smattering of servers will require custom code and a fairly deep knowledge of Linux/Unix internals. This is not a click-and-drag tool, nor a Web-based configuration ...

In a previous article, "Provisioning Docker with Puppet", in the December 2016 issue, I covered one of the ways you can install the Docker service onto a new system with Puppet. By contrast, this ...

So I've actually been up to my neck in a rather huge Puppet deployment with many thousands of clients over the last 6 months, and am curious as to whether we have any other Arsians doing work with ...

At some point, you probably have installed or configured a piece of software on a server or desktop PC. Since you read Linux Journal, you've probably done a lot of this, as well as developed a range ...