Here’s a situation that is likely familiar to you if you work in enterprise IT. The need for strong security practices is more pressing than ever, with known vulnerabilities growing exponentially, and nearly half of companies having experienced a data breach in the last two years. At the same time, organizations face demands to deploy software faster, and more frequently. IT executives consistently identify cybersecurity and speed among their top priorities.

I am a Puppet beginner and I’m happy to make the code manager integration happen. I like to play around with my code and test my code changes on my agent nodes. However, the way I’m testing my code is a bit tedious: Save my code change, push into remote repo, run code deploy, and run Puppet on agents. Is there a simple way to quickly test my code? Yes! The answer is using Onceover.

Passing an audit is hard — whether you’re in retail, healthcare, finance, or honestly, any industry that values security. Most organizations these days are faced with regulatory standards that must be enforced, which bring both technical and business challenges that are difficult to overcome.

As many Oracle customers plan their migration to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or OCI, proper tools should be considered in order to make a smooth transition. We’re excited to share that Enterprise Modules, a key contributor to the Puppet ecosystem, has recently created a module that extends the Puppet language to contain types needed to create and manage the lifecycle of objects within your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.