Videos tagged with Puppet

Server Configurations are often an afterthought. Configure the server once with Rails and get to the real work, right? But what happens when there are 2 servers? 3? 5? 8? 144? Maintaining consistency becomes more difficult over time and inconsistency can significantly hinder productivity. As applications scale, there are also the inter-system configurations as tiers need to be load balanced and...

After years of automating systems with CFEngine, Luke Kanies, Puppet's primary author, had ideas about automation that he could not express with existing tools. He tried to fork CFEngine, but threw up his hands at the C code. As a sysadmin, his obvious next step was to try it with Perl. More frustration... Python was getting a lot of attention, but after investing tens of hours, Luke still coul...