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Puppet and CloudStack

Curator's Note: The content of this article was originally written by David Nalley over at the Build a Cloud blog .Efficient use of CloudStack really demands...

0 replies - 1007 views - 03/12/13 by Build A Cloud in Articles

Designing Configuration Management Schemas

One important issue that comes up when undertaking a configuration management effort is how to design “the schema” for configuration management data....

0 replies - 4188 views - 11/28/12 by Willie Wheeler in Articles

A Fatal Impedance Mismatch for Continuous Delivery

Most of the time, when organizations pursue a continuous delivery capability, they’re doing that in pursuit of increased agility. They want to be able to...

4 replies - 7730 views - 11/15/12 by Willie Wheeler in Articles

Version Control And Deployment Of Cron Jobs

A recent question on Twitter prompted me to write a quick blog post about managing cron jobs. As more and more people want to automate...

0 replies - 4008 views - 07/23/12 by Gareth Rushgrove in Articles

Comparing the Flavors of Config Managment: Chef, Puppet, etc.

Over the past few years I have had opportunities to learn, adopt and extend different configuration management...

1 replies - 11828 views - 05/27/12 by Ranjib Dey in Articles

Closed loops - the secret to collecting configuration management data

Hi all, Willie here. In my last post, How NOT to collect configuration management data, I gave a quick rundown of some losing CM data approaches that I and...

2 replies - 6257 views - 01/23/12 by Willie Wheeler in Articles

Automate Configuration Management Using Tokens!

Here’s the problem: Your application has numerous config files, and the values in these config files differ on every server or every environment. You hate...

4 replies - 5107 views - 12/18/11 by James Betteley in Articles

Puppet Labs Assimilates MCollective Config Tech

Puppet Labs, the company behind the configuration management tool Puppet, has just acquired the Marionette Collective.  Also known as MCollective, the...

0 replies - 8053 views - 10/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Adobe Contributes Puppet Modules for Hadoop

Managing Hadoop servers can be a pain, but Puppet makes it easy.  The open source server config automation software makes the sys-admin's job a breeze, even...

0 replies - 8718 views - 06/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

rPath Adds Integrations for Puppet, Cfengine, and Chef

The data center automation tool vendor, rPath, recently added support for open source configuration management tools including Reductive Labs' Puppet,...

0 replies - 9100 views - 03/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Subversion Graduates: Only 3 Months in the Apache Incubator

In a short post on the Subversion Community website, the project developers announced the end of Subversion and the beginning of Apache Subversion.  They say...

0 replies - 6721 views - 02/18/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News