Pulling the Strings

Pulling the Strings is your guide to everything DevOps, from unpacking breaking trends to sharing helpful how-tos that make your life easier. In quick, casual conversations, Puppet engineers, open source community members, and global DevOps luminaries cover what you never knew you needed to know about DevOps. Whether it’s unpacking the latest tooling to sharing tips for getting buy-in from your team, Pulling the Strings is built for the DevOps devotees in all of us.

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The Future of Platform Engineering

In this episode, join special guests Nigel Kersten, Kaspar von Grünberg, Fatih Degirmenci, and Ronan Keenan as they discuss the recent surge in popularity of platform engineering and how these teams are fast becoming vital to enterprise success.

Creating Community with an Employee Resource Group (ERG)

Season 4 — Episode 9

Employee resource groups can be powerful agents for change. Hear how Puppet's ERGs advocate for equity and provide community for their members.

Managing Your Configuration Management System Shouldn't Be Hard

Season 4 — Episode 8

Bootstrapping a configuration management platform like Puppet Enterprise is challenging. Edwin from Puppet’s Solutions Architects team shows us a tool aiming to simplify that task.

CentOS 8 is EOL, So Now What?

Season 4 — Episode 7

Paul Reed joins us to show how to evaluate your post-EOL options for CentOS 8 options and make the migration process easier with a few simple Puppet Tasks.

Automating Your Way to Compliance Across Your Entire Cloud Infrastructure

Season 4 — Episode 6

Cortez worked his way up through the ranks as a cloud security and compliance engineer, managing hundreds of production applications. Now he's taking those grueling lessons and teaching the team at Relay how to automate.

In the Wake of Log4j, Here's How to Prepare for Your Next Security Threat

Season 4 — Episode 5

Practice today for your security response tomorrow. Learn how to safely deploy configuration updates and quickly orchestrate remediation scripts across your infrastructure.

How Puppet's Open Source History is Paving the Path to the Future

Season 4 — Episode 4

Puppet CTO Abby Kearns and Chief Architect Chip Childers join Ben Ford to share their thoughts on the Puppet open source roadmap and community engagement.

The Best Part of the PowerShell Gallery? It's On the Puppet Forge

Season 4 — Episode 3

The DSC configuration engine is the standard way to manage Windows systems, and it’s incredibly powerful. Now it's easier to use too, because all the PowerShell Gallery DSC resources are only a Puppet module install away.

A Paradigm Shift: Puppet and ServiceNow Integrations

Season 4 — Episode 2

Hear from Puppet's Integrations team about the benefits of expanding into a new workflow paradigm as they built our ServiceNow integrations.

Learn Puppet at Your Pace with New Practice Labs

Season 4 — Episode 1

Learning new tools is hard enough on its own. Why should there be impediments like installing software or setting up a working environment? Puppet Practice Labs smooth out these road bumps for you, and they’re free to use!

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