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Containment has always been kind of a sticky subject in the Puppet world. Part of the confusion is that that Puppet tries really hard to handle on its own so that you don’t have to care about the weird little implementation details of how ordering relationships are resolved. But that... Read more…

You’ve probably been using Puppet Forge modules to manage bits in your infrastructure for years. And if you’re like most of us, you’ve gradually added more modules and maybe sort of lost track of exactly what some of them do and on what nodes they’re declared on. You may even... Read more…

Today at 7:58 am was the Winter Solstice. That’s when the days stop getting shorter and start getting longer again. Metaphorically, it’s when darkness starts leaving our lives again and we welcome in more light. Ruben and I celebrated with a 7:58 am morning run, of course. The first half... Read more…