2016-01-20 MARCUS PHILIP I have used puppet for several years but had overlooked the puppet resource command until now. This command uses the Puppet RAL (Resource Abstraction Layer, i.e. Puppet DSL) to …
AGILE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT – PART 1
2014-08-10 MARCUS PHILIP On June 5 I held a lightning talk on Agile Configuration Management at the Agila Sverige 2014 conference. The 10 minute format does not allow for digging very deep. In this …
HOW TO VALIDATE YOUR YAML FILES FROM COMMAND LINE
2013-12-05 MARCUS PHILIP I like using Hiera with Puppet. In my puppet pipeline I just added YAML syntax validation for the Hiera files in the compile step. Here’s how:# … GIT_DIFF_CMD=”git …
PUPPET CHANGE PROMOTION AND CODE BASE DESIGN
2013-09-25 MARCUS PHILIP I have recently introduced puppet at a medium sized development organizations. I was new to puppet when I started, but feel like a seasoned and scarred veteran by …