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The Future of the Forge: Unpacking the New Big (and Small) Changes

On this episode of the Puppet podcast, Ben Ford and Saurabh Karwa reveal a few of the exciting changes that are going to make the Forge even easier and more valuable for all Puppet users, like personalization, filters, and features to track module versions and updates against your Puppet file.
Podcast

We Surveyed ~500 People Doing Platform Engineering. Here’s What We Learned.

In this special episode of Pulling the Strings, host Ben Ford, report authors Margaret Lee and David Sandilands, and ClearPath Strategies Senior Manager Stephanie Fairchild reveal their top takeaways and platform engineering predictions from the 2024 State of DevOps Report: The Evolution of Platform Engineering.
Guide

Automation Technology in Government: What Agencies & Vendors Need to Increase Security & Efficiency

Guide

IT Automation Made Easy: A Practical Guide to Streamlining IT Operations

IT automation is the key to unlocking efficiency and productivity. This practical guide provides you with everything you need to know to automate your IT tasks and streamline IT ops.
DevOps
eBook

Your Guide to Unlocking Cloud Scalability & Efficiency This Year

It doesn’t matter if you’re invested in the hybrid or multi cloud — becoming more scalable and efficient is going to be a key initiative in the future. Our free eBook can help you get there.
Cloud
Podcast

Your Return-to-Office Plans Will Shape Your Platform. Here’s How.

Platform engineering is all about giving devs the tools they need to work independently. Work-from-home policies give people flexibility in where and how they work. It should be a match made in heaven, right? Well... it’s more complicated than that.
Podcast

The Politics of Your Job: Building Trust + Subverting DevOps Hierarchies (Respectfully) with Joshua Zimmerman

Politics is everywhere in your organization. It’s just about wherever decisions get made. Joshua Zimmerman says that kind of politics is rooted in people, and with the right mindset, you can use politics to make things better in your organization – for you and your entire team.
Podcast

Who the Vox Pupuli Are and How They Work with Puppet

Great things – tools, spaces, companies, brands – are supported by great communities. The Vox Pupuli are perhaps the most prominent, active group in the Puppet community. Here’s what they're up to lately, what it’s like being one of them, and what Puppet (the community) means to Puppet (the company).
Podcast

What CentOS, RHEL, and HashiCorp’s BSL Mean for the Future of Open Source

Open source has always moved fast. Today, it moves faster than ever, driven by both community demand and corporate interest. On this episode, Perforce’s Javier Perez and OSI’s Stefano Maffulli discuss the impact of recent license changes and the historical push-and-pull between consumers and providers in the world of open source.
Guide

Hybrid Cloud: Scalable, More Secure, and Here to Stay

Everything you need to know about the hybrid cloud today, including integration, deployment, and security.
Cloud
Podcast

The Platform Engineering Pitfall You Aren’t Looking For (Yet)

With David Sandilands, Gradle Field CTO Justin Reock shares his perspective on developer productivity engineering – the point where right-brain creativity, left-brain productivity, and ‘joyful activity’ intersect to create what's broadly called the ‘developer experience – and where platform engineering is headed with and without it.
Podcast

“Write a Book About Puppet 8,” They Said. “It’ll Be Fun,” They Said.

The opportunity to write a Puppet 8 book landed in David Sandilands’s lap when he had just started at Puppet and with a child on the way. About a year and a half later in mid-2023, “Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers” launched via Packt. This is the story of everything that happened in the middle.