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10/31/2024

Puppet Primer IV - The Manifest and The Class Thus far we've covered a lot of ground in the minutia of the varied component in Puppet. We've talked about what the Puppet platform is and some foundations upon which it is built. We've also talked about the Resource Abstraction Layer, Resources, and the Client Server model. The thing is, I can list all the various components that get used to apply against a system, and the things that might occur when that happens, but still there are no ties between these base components....

Puppet Primer IV – The Manifest and The Class Thus far we’ve covered a lot of ground in the minutia of the varied component in Puppet. We’ve talked about what the Puppet platform …

10/14/2024

Puppet Primer III - Resources Welcome back to the Puppet Primer series. As I mentioned in the first installment of this series, we were to cover resources in depth later, and this is that article. In the context of Puppet, when we say "resources", we are referring to the fundamental unit we use in modeling system configurations. Puppet says it this way:...

Puppet Primer III – Resources Welcome back to the Puppet Primer series. As I mentioned in the first installment of this series, we were to cover resources in depth later, and this is that art…

10/10/2024

Client-Server Model in Puppet Architecture Explained

Puppet Primer I – What is Puppet? September 11, 2024 | comments One of the perennial problems with a platform like Puppet is not the lack of documentation in and of itself, but moreso the lack of various levels of documentation at all levels of documentation consumer. What I mean by this is, we ma...

06/02/2020

Honored to be featured on the Puppet Blog this week.

How to scale Puppet Community for large environments

05/13/2020

New post up at the website: "Scaling Puppet Community" https://ssconsultinggroup.net/index.php/2020/05/12/scaling-puppet-community/

12/09/2019

Puppetry is not relegated to UNIX/Linux land alone. It touches the Windows world in many different ways, and offers features not found in classical Windows tools.

Eliminate the manual struggle of deploying packages across your Windows estate and do it with ease with Bolt, Puppet and Chocolatey.

01/14/2019

Add some planning to your automation!

https://ssconsultinggroup.net/index.php/2019/01/14/automation-without-a-plan/

11/28/2018

https://ssconsultinggroup.net/index.php/2018/11/28/id-like-one-devops-please/

S & S Consulting Group can help you make the shift to Secure Automated DevOps infrastructure and deployment.

11/08/2018

DevOps is evolving, methods are changing, and getting there is more complex. Are you ready?

It’s about enabling ops to provide an environment for developers, then get out of the way as much as possible.

11/02/2018

Many thanks for all the likes so quickly. Please do share with everyone you know, especially those in tech, PM's, Engineers/Managers needing services, etc.

DevOps Consulting, Managed Services, and Staff Augmentation

11/01/2018

Still apropos in its base configuration, the article I wrote a couple years ago on scaling Puppet Enterprise can be found here:

http://questy.org/blog/2017/04/17/scaling-puppet-enterprise/

More recent versions of PE have better server-class configuration elements, and this may not apply to you at all, but getting a good look at all the moving parts under the covers helps you to zero in on the internals to assist you in your Puppet journey.

In my former life as a consultant, I had to install all manner of configurations of Puppet for clients. Some were small and some were large, but none …