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How to connect Puppet Enterprise to Okta using SAML

Anonymous, November 18, 2021 03:28 PM | Source: Puppet

Get a step-by-step guide on how to connect Puppet Enterprise to Okta using SAML so you can use the same credentials across apps integrated with Okta.

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How Puppet supports desktop and laptop automation in a changing world

Anonymous, November 16, 2021 02:24 PM | Source: Puppet

Did you know Puppet provides automation for desktops and laptops? Get better security/compliance when you use Puppet for automating these platforms.

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Features, the forgotten feature of Puppet

Anonymous, November 10, 2021 02:28 PM | Source: Puppet

This post will walk you through what a custom feature is, when you should use them, and how to write them.

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How Puppet provides cyber security resilience to customers

Anonymous, November 09, 2021 02:51 PM | Source: Puppet

The Australian government and Puppet are both deeply invested in cyber security. Find out more in the blog.

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2021-10-21: A Fond Farewell For Now to Community Day & Norman

michaeltlombardi, October 20, 2021 12:00 AM | Source: Puppet IAC Team

IAC Community Day

Background

The Infrastructure Automation Content (IAC) team formed from the merger of 4 core content-focused teams (Modules, Windows, Cloud & Containers, and Networking), maintaining forty-five open-source supported Puppet modules and over a dozen tools that help reduce the content maintenance and support costs.

A crucial part of Puppet’s success has always been the support of the community. The IAC team, like with all module teams before, would have had a dedicated engineer or engineers assigned to community triage, usually on a rotational basis.

The triage rota consumed 20% of the team’s engineering resources. It was challenging due ...

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2021-10-11: IAC & DevX Team Status Update

ia-content, October 11, 2021 12:00 AM | Source: Puppet IAC Team

Community Contributions

We’d like to thank the following people in the Puppet Community for their contributions over this past week:

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2021-10-04: IAC & DevX Team Status Update

ia-content, October 04, 2021 12:00 AM | Source: Puppet IAC Team

Community Contributions

We’d like to thank the following people in the Puppet Community for their contributions over this past week:

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2021-09-20: IAC & DevX Team Status Update

ia-content, September 20, 2021 12:00 AM | Source: Puppet IAC Team

Community Contributions

We’d like to thank the following people in the Puppet Community for their contributions over this past week:

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Correcting misinformation with Twitter Birdwatch

Anonymous, August 19, 2021 12:00 AM | Source: binford2k.com

Information is power. And those who control the narrative have all the power in the world. In recent years, we’ve seen the interconnectedness of our digital communities lead to the weaponization of misinformation.

The obvious example of that was the Jan 6, 2021 insurrection in which a departing president incited an attempted coup in a pathetic attempt to remain in power and relevant. He did this via Twitter.

Fortunately, he’s since been de-platformed, but the right-wing has squadrons of misinformation lieutenants regularly attempting to spin current events, gaslight the nation, and control the minds of their army of followers. One ...

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Integrate an Application with Prometheus Operator and Package with a Helm Chart

Julien Acroute, July 19, 2021 08:59 AM | Source: Camptocamp Blog

In the previous posts, we saw:

  • how to implement metrics in applications
  • how to run the monitoring stack locally
  • how to test and debug metrics generated by a simple Python Flask application

In this post we will:

  • use Kubernetes Custom Resources to integrate our application with the Prometheus Operator
  • define some alerts based on the metrics generated by the application
  • deploy a custom dashboard in Grafana
  • package everything in a Helm chart, including a Grafana dashboard

Connect Prometheus to your Application

Prometheus will retrieve metrics from Pods with a /metrics HTTP endpoint. If the Prometheus Operator is deployed in your ...

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Enable OpenShift login on ArgoCD from GitOps Operator

Philippe Bürgisser, May 20, 2021 12:48 PM | Source: Camptocamp Blog

Since few weeks now, the operator Red Hat OpenShift GitOps became GA and embbed tools like Tekton and ArgoCD.

When the operator is deployed, it provisions a vanilla ArgoCD which miss the OpenShift integrated login. In this post, we are going to review the steps to enable it.

Deploy and fine tune the Red Hat OpenShift GitOps

  1. Follow the official documentation on the installation of the operator
  2. Once the operator is deployed, go to the menu Operators>Installed Operators and click on the freshly deployed Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
  3. Using the dropdown Actions on top right of the page, ...

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How to allow dynamic Terraform Provider Configuration

Raphaël Pinson, May 11, 2021 11:47 AM | Source: Camptocamp Blog

Terraform relies heavily on the concept of providers, a base brick which consists of Go plugins enabling the communication with an API.

Each provider gives access to one or more resource types, and these resources then manage objects on the target API.

Most of the time, a provider's configuration is static, e.g.

provider "aws" {
  region = "us-east-1"
}

However, in some cases, it is useful to configure a provider dynamically, using the attribute values from other resources as input for the provider's configuration.

I'll use the example of the Argo CD provider. In a single Terraform run ...

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Terraform Project Design — A parallel with Puppet

Mickaël Canévet, May 03, 2021 11:57 AM | Source: Camptocamp Blog

Introduction

Like Puppet, Terraform provides low-level objects written in a programming language that allows you to manage individual resources.

With Puppet, these low-level objects, the Puppet Types and Providers, written in Ruby, allow you to apply the CRUD paradigm to resources located on managed nodes.

With Terraform, these low-level objects, the Terraform Resources, written in Go, allow you to apply the CRUD paradigm to resources in an API.

On top of this, both solutions provide a DSL: the Puppet DSL for Puppet and the HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) for Terraform. They are both declarative languages, allowing ...

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How to use a module from the Puppet Forge

Anonymous, March 30, 2021 12:00 AM | Source: binford2k.com

The Puppet Forge is a great place to find content. Whether you’re looking for a module to manage SELinux contexts, or Windows registry settings, or even major applications like IBM WebSphere, you’re almost certain to find it on the Forge.

Using that content is a different story though. It’s generally left as an exercise to the reader to know which installation method is appropriate and how to use the module in your own infrastructure. This tutorial is designed as a basic guide for getting started with Forge content so you’re not left looking at the page and ...

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Puppet Tip 119 - Hiera merge behavior

Anonymous, February 11, 2021 12:00 AM | Source: Example 42

Hiera v5 allows you to provide information regarding merge behavior in a couple of different ways. Using different merge behaviors allows you to e.g. separate common (admin) users from application users by adding common users in common hiera layer and the application users into an application hiera layer. This reduces duplicates in data and allow more simple data management. Another example is installation of packages. You usually have a list of packages you need on all systems (admin packages) and some packages which are needed on special systems only. Again you can mention all common packages in hiera common laxer ...

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From 2020 to 2021

Anonymous, January 12, 2021 12:00 AM | Source: Example 42

We are at the beginning of a new year, example42 wishes all customers, partners, colleagues, friends, and supporters a healthy, successful, and happy 2021. Looking back on 2020 Lookout to 2021 Looking back on 2020 2020 has been difficult for many people and organizations. Many of them have suffered due to lockdown and to local restrictions. Just consider musicians, artists and their crews who had to cancel event after event. Or think about local small business which had to close their shops. Others were able to continue their business and we are super happy that our customers enabled example42 to ...

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Digging out data in style with puppet 4.5.0

Unknown (noreply@blogger.com), January 11, 2021 02:46 PM | Source: Puppet on the Edge

In Puppet 4.5.0 there are a couple of new functions dig, then and lest that together with the existing assert_type and with functions makes it easy to do a number of tasks that earlier required conditional logic and temporary variables.

You typically run into a problem in programming languages in general when you are given a data structure consisting of hashes/arrays (or other objects), and you need to “dig out” a particular value, but you do not know if the path you want from the root of the structure actually exists.

Say you are given a hash like this: ...

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Slicing and dicing Forge usage data

Anonymous, December 11, 2020 12:00 AM | Source: binford2k.com

The Forge content ecosystem is large and complex. There are a lot of modules, and modules that use resources from other modules. It can be hard to navigate these relationships when you’re deciding how to invest development resources. For example, it’s useful to know how many modules call a function when deciding whether we should deprecate it.

To assist in making these decisions, the Ecosystem program maintains a publicly accessible database that can help you weigh the costs of some of these decisions. You can use the data directly using the BigQuery console, or if your need is simply ...

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Puppetize Digital - example42 talk about GIT workflows

Anonymous, November 13, 2020 12:00 AM | Source: Example 42

Puppetize Digital is coming! November 19th! example42 is super excited that we are again delivering a talk to a Puppet conference. This year Martin Alfke is talking about GIT workflows. The talk was prerecorded as Martin recovers from a dental surgery and will be broadcasted on November 19th at 1:30 PM (GMT) and at 2:30 PM (AEDT). Puppet and GIT Single long living branch - simple GIT Staging branches GIT flow Summary Puppet and GIT Working on Puppet always is fun. But working with GIT is hard for many people who are new to GIT. Single long living branch - ...

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All our good reasons to sponsor Puppettize Digital

Anonymous, November 09, 2020 12:00 AM | Source: Example 42

Another year, another Puppet conference, and another time we are sponsoring it. Let’s see what, how and why. Puppettize Digital Sponsors, as usual Presenting at Puppettize Digital Puppet, for fun and business Puppettize Digital Puppettize Digital will be a 24 hours online event, on November 19, sprayed on three different continents timezones: Asia Pacific: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM AEDT Europe 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM GMT Americas 9:00AM - 5:00 PM PST In GMT timezone this means: Asia Pacific: 11:00 PM (Nov 18) - 7:00 AM Europe 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Americas 5:00 PM - 1:00 AM (Nov ...

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