What is Platform Engineering?
In this blog, we’ll define platform engineering, outline its benefits for software development, explain how it intersects with DevOps, and identify the key components platform engineering needs to be successful.
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Making IT Fireproof with Security Automation Tools
Security automation tools can be the first step in preventing IT fires from happening. When IT teams dedicate time to extinguishing security and compliance fires, they’re missing out on valuable time to spend tackling bigger goals. Let’s explore some ways to make your IT fireproof using the preventative power of security automation.
Go Beyond the Status Quo with Puppet Enterprise
From the largest physics laboratory in the world to a telescope network scattered across the planet to a design firm building roads and parks around the globe to an air navigation service provider that guides 1.2 million flights each year, 40,000 companies rely on Puppet to automate their infrastructure – with security and compliance baked right in. Puppet’s IT automation suite incorporates security, compliance, and innovation from day one to power Day 2 operations (and beyond), so your teams can spend less time managing IT infrastructure and more time changing the world.
The Power of IT Automation Empowers You | Puppet Enterprise
With Puppet, the power of IT automation empowers you. Learn more at puppet.com. Too many companies use patchwork solutions for configuration management and IT automation, leading to unmanageable complexity and huge security risks. IT operators are on-call day and night to address security breaches, and toil for weeks manually provisioning servers. But no one would expect you to wash 10,000 dishes by hand – so why are IT operators expected to configure 10,000 servers manually?
Puppet by Perforce Announces Continuous Compliance for DISA STIGs
Puppet Compliance Enforcement Modules now include support for DISA STIGs, enabling U.S. federal agencies to achieve and continuously maintain compliance and security audit readiness.
Puppet supports DoD continuous compliance and configuration management
Puppet Enterprise now offers Compliance Enforcement Modules aligned to DISA STIGs Benchmarks. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) were built to safeguard our most critical security systems and data against a dynamic threat environment, yet monitoring and enforcing widely deployed infrastructure at the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) scale is a formidable task.
How to rein in cloud chaos with Puppet
Cloud automation can do a lot for your organization, making it possible to automate resource creation, management, and housekeeping tasks. If you’ve thought that cloud automation is out of reach, or you’re curious to learn what it can do, we’re excited to announce a brand new webinar that can help! Discover cloud automation in action and walk away with code that you can get up and running within an hour.
Sending large files to Puppet Support
Need to send some files to Puppet Support? Use our internally hosted file transfer solution. Read the article for more information.
Updating A Forge Module In Puppet Enterprise Using Code Manager
Puppet Support Explain how to change the version of a Forge module deployed in your Puppet Enterprise Environment Please note it is not considered best practice to declare `:latest` rather than a specific version tag in your PuppetFile as this could lead to untested module combinations being deployed to your environment. Commands Used: puppet-code deploy production --wait -l debug puppet module list --environment=production.
Get your time back by getting rid of unused modules with Dropsonde
You’ve probably been using Puppet Forge modules to manage bits in your infrastructure for years. If you’re like most of us, you’ve gradually added more modules and maybe you’ve lost track of exactly what some of them do and on what nodes they’re declared. You may even suspect that you have modules installed that you haven’t actually used in years…. only you’re not quite certain which modules those might be. I am certainly guilty of this!