Just a friendly PSA that Puppet 3.x reached its end of life on December 31, 2016. I suggest upgrading to an LTS release for access to bug fixes and security updates after December 31, 2016. If you have not yet updated, you should make that a priority! Learn more about... Read more…
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13 Dec 2016
Environments no longer leak!Some time ago, I wrote about Environment Leakage, and I’m happy to report that this is much less of a problem today. As of Puppet 4.8 and Puppet Enterprise 2016.5, most custom types will no longer be subject to environment leakage. It’s transparent for the end user, when Puppet Enterprise... Read more…
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22 Nov 2016
Puppet 3.8.x EOL imminent!Just a friendly PSA that Puppet 3.x reached its end of life on December 31, 2016. I suggest upgrading to an LTS release for access to bug fixes and security updates after December 31, 2016. If you have not yet updated, you should make that a priority! Learn more about... Read more…
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24 Apr 2016
In other news, spaceships have side effects.Managing resource dependencies with Puppet is relatively straightforward. You describe any relationships with metaparameters and Puppet figures out the order it should enforce them in. Most dependency issues arise when users try to overspecify dependencies as if they were writing a shell script. Puppet works best when you think in... Read more…