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Glu-ing The Last Mile

Topics
Puppet,
Continuous Deployment,
Devops,
Strange Loop 2011,
Tools,
Agile Techniques,
Operations,
Strange Loop,
IT Service Management,
Cloud Computing,
Agile,
Conferences,
Infrastructure

Ken Sipe introduces Glu, an open source deployment automation tool coming from LinkedIn, showing how to perform Glu configuration along with a demo of using it.

News about Puppet

Thoughtworks Technology Radar March 2012

Topics
Puppet,
Chef,
Devops,
Continuous Delivery,
Maven,
Automated testing,
Automation,
IT Service Management,
Infrastructure,
Scrum,
Languages,
Build systems,
Agile Techniques,
Experience Design,
PowerShell,
Agile,
Data Warehousing,
Programming,
github,
Testing,
Emergent Architecture,
git,
Cloud Computing

ThoughtWorks recently published the latest update to its Technology Radar; a report produced to help technology decision makers understand emerging trends in software development techniques, tools, languages and platforms. There are some interesting observations of interest to Agile software development teams.

Unix Orchestration Roundup: Tools for Programmatic Systems Administration

Topics
Puppet,
Devops,
IT Service Management,
Infrastructure,
Operations,
Orchestration,
Cloud Computing

While system administrators have always written code to automate tasks and many developers run their own systems, the melding of development and operations into devops has really taken hold as sophisticated configuration management and orchestration tools have become available.

Adobe Released Puppet Recipes for Hadoop

Topics
DSLs,
Puppet,
Devops,
Domain Specific Languages,
Deployment / Datacenter,
Open Source,
Operations,
Languages,
Adobe,
IT Service Management,
Infrastructure,
Programming,
Management,
MapReduce,
Companies,
Cloud Computing

Recently Adobe released Puppet recipes that they are using to automate Hadoop/HBase deployments to the community. InfoQ spoke with Luke Kanies, founder of PuppetLabs, to learn more about what this means.

Presentations about Puppet

BDD with Puppet & Cucumber

Topics
Puppet,
QCon San Francisco 2010,
Devops,
QCon,
IT Service Management,
Operations,
Cucumber,
Infrastructure,
Cloud Computing,
Agile,
Conferences,
BDD

Tom Sulston explains how to manage systems with Cucumber and Puppet based on BDD principles, including practical tricks and pitfalls. The session demoes using those tools.

Infrastructure as Code

Topics
DevOps Days 2010,
Puppet,
Devops,
Operations,
Unit Testing,
IT Service Management,
Tools,
Automation,
Agile,
Cloud Computing,
Infrastructure,
TDD,
Testing

Automation is essential to DevOps. The infrastructure as code concept drives many of today’s cutting edge automaton techniques. What is it all about? Where are its limitations?

Enabling Development: Accessible Platforms

Topics
Puppet,
Devops,
Collaboration,
IT Service Management,
Tools,
Operations,
Teamwork,
QCon,
Infrastructure,
Agile,
Cloud Computing,
Conferences,
QCon London 2010

R.I. Pienaar discusses how operations should empower devs by providing them accessible platforms which are easy to understand, to use and to access, by creating a simple network infrastructure accompanied by the right tools to monitor and analyze the systems, so developers can have a clear view of the network they are deploying to.

Interviews about Puppet

Patrick Debois on the State of DevOps

Topics
Chef,
Puppet,
Devops,
IT Service Management,
Infrastructure,
Cloud Computing,
Nagios

Patrick Debois discusses the ideas behind DevOps, popular DevOps tools like Chef and Puppet, DevOps vs NoOps, and much more.

ThoughtWorks’ Jez Humble Delivers on Continuous Delivery

Topics
Puppet,
Devops,
Collaboration,
Adopting Agile,
Distributed Teams,
Offshoring,
ThoughtWorks,
XP,
Pair Programming,
IT Service Management,
Infrastructure,
Teamwork,
Agile Techniques,
Business Models,
Agile Education,
Agile in the Enterprise,
Adaptive Leadership,
Lean,
Scrum,
Project Management,
Companies,
Agile,
Facebook,
Cloud Computing,
Netflix,
Eclipse,
Leadership,
Agile 2010,
Flickr,
Business

In this interview Jez Humble discusses the concept of continuous delivery, which implies that software should always be production ready throughout its lifecycle. That means that every build could be released into production and run effectively. Continuous delivery involves build and deployment automation, continuous integration, test automation, managing infrastructure and environments and more.

John Leach on Virtualization and Unix Tools for the Data Center

Topics
Ruby on Rails,
Ruby,
Puppet,
Devops,
Dynamic Languages,
Virtualization,
Operations,
Deployment / Datacenter,
IaaS,
Linux,
Data Access,
Languages,
Monitoring,
IT Service Management,
Architecture,
Infrastructure,
Programming,
Database,
Cloud Computing,
Xen,
Operating Systems,
Performance & Scalability,
Scottish Ruby Conference

John Leach explains how Brightbox uses Virtualization in the data center and whether Virtualization causes performance problems. Also: a look at a few Unix tools and Linux features that Ruby developers might not know about.