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One thing we do a lot of at Puppet Labs is release product. And every time we make a major product release, I have to go through and update our training material. I validate all the exercises and examples and code snippets. And when we make UI refreshes I have... Read more…

I’ve owned all the iPhones since the 3G. That’s 8 years of iPhones. And I’ve loved every one of them. But right now I’m angry and if what the Apple Store tech says is true, it might be the end. I’m a runner. A marathoner, to be specific. That’s about... Read more…

If you’ve used Puppet for anything non-trivial, you’ve almost certainly used it to configure something secret. Perhaps you’ve configured an application with a database password. Perhaps you’ve configured a local maintenance user account with a private SSH key. Something that might seem obvious in retrospect is that these secrets exist... Read more…