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Agent vs. Agentless Security: How Do They Stack Up for Secure Infrastructure Automation?

In today’s multi-cloud reality, we at Puppet see that perspectives about agent-based security, agentless security, and agent vs. agentless have changed as security needs have grown in complexity and urgency. Given the changes fact that different architecture models and supporting infrastructure (private & public cloud), the same viewpoint about the best way to keep a business secure is no longer a one-size-fits-all solution.
Security & Compliance, DevOps
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How to Learn Puppet the Easy Way — From Beginners to Advanced Practitioners

Exploring how to learn Puppet? Check out our training offerings and weigh the pros and cons of each to meet your learning needs.
Announcements & Events
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Security Automation Tools: SIEM, SOAR, IAM, Configuration Management + More Tools to Ensure IT Security

Security automation tools can make your IT strategy fireproof by taking manual work out of your team’s hands. In this blog, we’ll explain how out how security automation tools can handle some of the biggest day-to-day challenges for enterprises, like security and compliance.
Security & Compliance, Infrastructure Automation
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The Future of Configuration Management Software is Policy Enforcement

The old way we’ve thought about configuration management software has passed — we need a new perspective that takes into account the importance of policy enforcement. Let’s dig deeper into what this means for DevOps, your overall security and compliance strategy, and IT.
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Why You Should Avoid Windows Group Policy Management for CIS Compliance

Explore the current challenges of default group policy management and learn a cleaner way of managing exceptions through policy-as-code.
Configuration Management
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Get Started with Puppet: A Tutorial for First-Timers

Ready to get started with Puppet and you don’t know where to begin? This Puppet tutorial blog post will guide you through the first few steps and get you automating in no time.
How to & Use Cases, Products & Services
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DoD Compliance + DoD Configuration Management: How to Get Compliant with Less Effort

Learn how federal IT teams can automate DoD continuous compliance without the delay, risk, and cost of manual approaches.
Security & Compliance, Government
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Platform Engineering Tools: 12 Types of Tools to Use in Your Platform

Platform engineering tools are the apps in an internal developer platform (IDP), like configuration management, automation + more. See common types + use cases in this handy blog.
Platform Engineering, DevOps
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What is Event-Driven Automation? Event-Driven Automation Programming Examples

Using event-driven automation programming examples, learn how to put this powerful series of event triggers to work in your system.
DevOps
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Managing Compliance: Tips + Strategies for Breaking the Vicious Scan-Fix-Drift Cycle

Managing compliance in IT means defining and enforcing a desired state configuration in your IT systems. Read this blog to get an idea of managing compliance tasks and how to break the scan-fix-drift cycle.
Security & Compliance, Infrastructure Automation
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Puppet vs. SaltStack: Best SaltStack Alternatives List + Detailed Comparisons

On the hunt for the best SaltStack alternatives or wondering how Puppet vs. SaltStack compares? This blog will break down the differences and similarities between each configuration management platform.
Ecosystems & Integrations
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Government Risk Management: How Agencies Balance the Risks vs. Benefits of Digital Transformation

Government risk management is an agency’s plan for responding to dangers to the well-being of citizens. In this blog, learn how agencies can modernize IT + mitigate risk.
Government, Security & Compliance