Pulling the Strings

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Kelsey Hightower, operations manager at Puppet Labs, joins community lead Dawn Foster to talk about "Building a DevOps Team" in the latest Puppet Labs Podcast. They discuss topics relevant to those who move from technical roles into management.

Kelsey explores how we handle Shadow IT, how we embody DevOps without putting it in our job titles, and how to make management a true specialty alongside your technical prowess.

Check out the 2013 State of DevOps Report for more on DevOps, based on a survey of over 4,000 IT professionals. Still struggling with how to manage your team? Gene Kim's The Phoenix Project presents the exciting tale of an IT manager in a pretty pickle, and how he solves it (or does he?).

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In the newest episode of the Puppet Labs Podcast (dare I say Puppetcast?), Dawn Foster is joined by Joe Wagner, Jenny Mahmoudi, and Paige Huggins for a discussion on product design. We cover some of the ideas and processes behind how products are designed here at Puppet Labs, and how you can get involved to be a part of that.

In the Puppet Labs User Experience (UX) department, we validate that we're solving real user problems, iterate on possible solutions, and then check back in to make sure we're addressing real-life pains.  Agile, anyone?  Listen in as we discuss user stories, the Puppet Test Pilots, site visits, and design jams.  You'll even get to meet a few of the design personas we have framed on the wall at our office.

Want to get involved with these fine folks, and be the first to see new features?  Join the Puppet Test Pilots.

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• Attend PuppetConf, our annual operations conference at the Fairmont in San Francisco on August 22 and 23. Register today and get an early bird discount!

In this episode of the Puppet Labs Podcast, I roamed around DevOpsDays London and Puppet Camp London tracking down a few people who didn't run away fast enough, and got them to participate in a podcast about getting started with Puppet.

I asked nine different people about how they got started with Puppet and got their advice for people who are just getting started now. Their path to Puppet and their advice varies widely, so you'll get a lot of different suggestions.

A huge thank you to the following people who participated in the interviews!

• Jonas Rosland

I would also like thank David Coronel, who suggested we do more podcasts that help people get started with Puppet, along with other helpful feedback.

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• We have Puppet Camps coming up in San Francisco, Nuremberg, New York, Austin, Raleigh and more. Visit the Puppet Camp page to register to attend or learn more about submitting talks.

In this episode of the Puppet Labs Podcast, Mike Stahnke and Dawn Foster talked to Daniel Pittman about Razor. For those of you who aren't familiar with Razor, it is provisioning software that handles bare metal hardware and virtual server provisioning, and Daniel is the head of Puppet Razor development. We talked about several topics, including:

• an overview of the project

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Get Involved with the Razor Project

• Razor IRC channel #puppet-razor

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• Next Generation Provisioning with Razor

Brandon Burton (@solarce) and Dan Maher (@phrawzty) join me today to talk about how Puppet is helping power the open web. Mozilla is best known for Firefox, but they offer several other products, tools and platforms, including Thunderbird, Etherpad, Gecko, Bugzilla and more. In this episode, we discuss Puppet at Mozilla, their infrastructure requirements, sharing modules, and the culture of automation. Here are a few links from my notes on the show:

• Socorro - a crash analysis application written by Mozilla, including Puppet code for deployment.

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Randall Hansen drops by the Podcast Studio (a conference room) to discuss all things User Experience and Puppet. Topics covered include what is design, why we care about it, and what we're doing for you as user with design.

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In this episode Mike Stahnke interviews Ben Hughes and Zach Leslie of the Puppet Labs operations team. They discuss the unique challenges of being a sysadmins for a company built with so many system administrators (or former system administrators). Other topics covered include when it is appropriate to wear a Pink Sombrero.

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