At times, our clients inquire about recommended books on Puppet that are both recent and informative. Unfortunately, we were unable to provide any suggestions for some time. However, with the release of David’s new Puppet book “Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers”, we are now able to recommend it with confidence to those seeking to enhance their Puppet skills and streamline their automation processes.

As a CIO or security officer, you always look for ways to streamline compliance and improve security. Puppet can help you do both. Puppet is a tool that allows you to automate the deployment and day-to-day management of your IT infrastructure. It’s simple to use and can be easily integrated into your existing workflow. Not only does Puppet make it easy to keep your systems up-to-date and compliant with corporate policy, but it can also help you avoid costly mistakes and outages. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at how Puppet can ensure compliance of your systems. And when it is unable to guarantee compliance, notify you.

Do you want to make your team’s Puppet code easier to read and more concise, and better organized? While still allowing customizations to allow the code to fit every client team’s unique needs? Then using the easy_type::ordered_steps function is the way to go.

Managing the order of execution for your Puppet classes is important to ensure that configuration is completed in the correct order. But there are so many ways how you can do this. What is a useful and maintainable way to do this? The ordered steps pattern allows you to manage the order of execution for classes. This article will discuss how to use the ordered steps pattern and provide some tips for creating maintainable Puppet code.

Database administrators have a lot on their plate. In addition to ensuring that the data in their systems is accurate and accessible, they also need to ensure that their systems are compliant with various security standards. This blog post will show you how Puppet can help you automate database compliance tasks. We’ll discuss some of the CIS database compliance benchmarks and how Puppet can help you meet them. Stay tuned for more tips on automating your database compliance tasks!