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Get Started with Puppet: A Tutorial Guide for First-Timers

So you’re ready to get started with Puppet and you don’t know where to begin. That’s alright – this short, easy Puppet tutorial will help you get started with Puppet Enterprise. This tutorial blog walks through the first few steps you'll need to take to get Puppet Enterprise up and running so you can start automating your organization's IT infrastructure.

How Automation Can Help Scale An MSP Business

For a Managed Service Provider (MSP) to grow, it must win new customers. However, each new customer brings more devices and users that require management, incident ticket resolution, and provisioning. If the above is actioned manually, an MSP requires dedicated staff to handle the new clients’ users, devices, resolve tickets and requests. Bearing in mind, each staff member can only support a certain number of users and devices.

DoD Compliance + DoD Configuration Management: How to Get Compliant with Less Effort

DoD compliance is a set of rules and expectations for IT cybersecurity in organizations that do business with the US Department of Defense (DoD). Discover everything you need to know about DoD compliance and DoD configuration management in this blog – plus how to manage DoD compliance better and faster with Puppet.

Platform Engineering Tools: 12 Types of Tools to Use in Your Platform

Platform engineering tools are the apps and services in an internal developer platform (IDP), like configuration management, provisioning, testing, automation, CI/CD, and more. Your actual IDP should comprise tools your team actually needs: Your choice of platform engineering tools matters because it defines what your dev team can do on their own.

No-Code, Low-Code, Bring-Your-Own-Code Platforms: Explained

No-code, low-code, and bring-your-own-code (BYOC) platforms refer to different types of software development approaches that cater to varying levels of technical expertise, allowing users to create applications, websites, and automate tasks with differing degrees of coding requirements.

The benefits of business automation

Automation is a widely reported topic, with new technological developments and applications cropping up in reports across the globe. Its use in business and commercial settings is becoming more and more common and it's already being used to support processes, whether people are aware or not. Many are understandably cautious with technology of this kind, highlighting that while it can be hugely beneficial in some areas, it should be handled with care.

Simplicity Just One Click Away: Automating the Many IT Tasks of Employee Offboarding

There’s an unfortunate mistake that’s too often made when the relationship between an employee and their employer ends, and when the offboarding begins: processing the termination steps too quickly and disregarding the importance of the employee’s last few days, which can mean that behind-the-scenes procedures, like those in IT, aren’t carried out so well.