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Puppet Forge

mpdehaan — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:09:45 +0000

To everyone on Fedora Planet (and elsewhere) that may be interested in this, Puppet has a new module site (think CPAN) — check out forge.puppetlabs.com and the accompanying download/release tool, which is separate for now, but will be eventually released with Puppet itself. If you have Puppet module content you’d like to share, we’d love to have it available on Puppet Forge. Tell your friends. For a long time on Fedora Planet lots of people (including myself) have talked about how Open Source contributions can be about many things — source code contribution, content, help & advice, documentation. This is a really great example about how you can build a systems management community around that help & advice, and, especially, sharing content. Admins don’t have to stand alone, they can work together without having the problem of company boundaries in the way. This is one of the greatest things about OSS.

Also, for those who haven’t got enough of hearing me talk, yesterday I was on This Week In Cloud Computing with Jared Goralnick, CEO of Away Find. It has a bit of a different format than the usual podcast, and was a lot of fun. Click the link if you’d like to watch/listen.

This June — Southeast Linux Fest

mpdehaan — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:01:57 +0000

For those in the Southeast, a quick reminder to make your plans to attend South East Linux Fest. I’m going to be giving a talk on Puppet, and there’s already a pretty nice cast lined up including quite a few notables from Red Hat as well as Tarus from OpenNMS. I am not sure someone named Bacon should be venturing through the Carolinas though. It seems highly unsafe

Later this month, if you can’t wait, I’m giving a talk in the Cloud Track of WWW 2010 in Raleigh.

New Puppet Web (and Docs) Site, Markdown++

mpdehaan — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:26:13 +0000

Reductive Labs recently renamed themselves Puppet Labs and as a result has a new website. I’ve been working on upgrading the docs section some, so be sure to check out docs.puppetlabs.com for more content, hopefully better arranged for new learners. (Much of this drawn from our Wiki, but some new, and organized). Feedback and contributions welcome.

The docs site is based off of the Rails Guides and is generated from Markdown, which is now my new favorite way to generate documentation. A bonus is that Wikis like Redmine already support Markdown, so there is almost no conversion to move things between them.

Traffic Cone Destination Tourism

mpdehaan — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:04:14 +0000

A trip to San Francisco to sit on our Puppet Training class gave me an opportunity to visit a place I had long known about on Flickr… the San Francisco Airport BART Station. If you’re into traffic cone photography, you’re already in on it, I’m sure.

Puppet training was remarkably informative … not only watching Teyo teach about exported resources, storeconfigs, and custom functions/facts (and seeing Bruce plow through creation of new Puppet types in Ruby), but I also had the chance to talk to numerous happy users about future things we can do with Puppet. Amusingly, I ran into quite a few Cobbler users too, which definitely helps as an icebreaker. It was very nice meeting and talking with everyone.

Airplane landed a little late so I didn’t get to see the Golden Gate, but maybe next time. A day later and I could have seen the Maverick surfing competition. (John McCain should announce. It would be hilarious.)