Pulling the Strings

Puppet has been open source since day one and our success has largely been built on community contributions. One could even say that it's part of our DNA. Now the question is where do we take it from here? Puppet CTO Abby Kearns and Chief Architect Chip Childers have a long and storied history with open source. Join us to hear their thoughts on how Puppet will map out the open source roadmap ahead.

Learn more: 

• Join the Puppet Community Slack, we'd love to hear your ideas.
• Take a look at the Puppet Toy Chest for some projects that we're inviting you to adopt.
• Get involved by contributing written content or to one of our modules.
• Read about open source at Puppet.
• Read as Chip introduces himself to the community.
• Read more of Abby’s ideas on her Medium page
• Follow Abby and Chip on Twitter.

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. Mike and Bill are here to tell you the whole story, from building the integration and the publication pipeline to deploying DSC Resources for customers and debugging them in the field.

Learn more: 

• Using PowerShell DSC Resources with Puppet
• Puppet & DSC: Puppetizing and Debugging
• Picaroons by Michael T Lombardi
• Join our community at https://slack.puppet.com

User research shows that a huge number of our customers were using ServiceNow alongside Puppet Enterprise. It only made sense to teach the tools how to integrate with each other so that users didn't have to switch between them. Molly and Milad join us from Puppet's Integrations team to tell us how they put user experience front and center when building the new extensions.

Learn more: 

• Join our community at https://slack.puppet.com
• Find more about the integration at http://puppet.com/integrations/servicenow/
• Let us know about new integration ideas at https://pup.pt/ideast/ideas

Learning new tools is hard enough on its own. But then you often have to install software, set up a working environment, download a dev kit, or more. Our Education team recently released the new Puppet Practice Labs, which let you learn the Puppet ecosystem at your own pace and remove all these impediments from your progress.

The labs run right in your browser and require no extra downloads. And best of all, they're free and you can access them any time. Many are even short enough that you could run through one over your lunch hour. Join us to chat with the team about how they built the platform and how you can best use it.

Learn more: 

• Boost your skills with Puppet Practice Labs
• Looking for more ways to learn Puppet? Check out Puppet Compass.
• Have more ideas? Take a look at the Puppet Idea Portal.

Pride is a celebration of our true selves -- of loving yourself for who you are, and of accepting and loving others for who they are.

It can be a challenge to feel safe being out and proud without role models providing guidance and showing the way. Listen to Melissa Casburn share her personal and professional journey.

Learn More: 

• To go more in depth, read Melissa’s post on Medium

Abby Kearns and Deepak Giridharagopal share their unique experience of being co-CTOs and where Puppet is headed in the near future on this episode of Pulling the Strings.

Learn more: 

• Stay up to date with Abby’s Medium or follow her on Twitter.
• Follow Deepak on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Ben Ford explains the importance of content and why developer insights help to build stronger communities on this episode of Pulling the Strings podcast. He also provides details on a better Puppet Developer Kit (PDK) and improvements to the Puppet Forge.

Learn More:

• Learn more about the Puppet Developer Experience. 
• Make your voice heard

Acceptance testing is fun, I know! In this episode of Pulling the Strings, Lucy Wyman, Gene Liverman, and Trevor Vaughan explain multi-node testing with Beaker, how Beaker is different from Litmus, and future plans for Beaker.

Learn More: 

• Install Beaker here.
• Watch the presentation of Beaker with PDK.  
• Join the Puppet Community on Slack. 
• Learn more about Vox Pupuli.

I had virtualization… Then you gave me Kubernetes on top of virtualization. I thought Kubernetes was supposed to be the answer, and now you’re telling me it’s not the answer and I need something else on top of Kubernetes?! The conundrum is solved on this episode of Pulling the Strings with Martez Reed and Bruno Andrade.

Learn More

• The Puppet Kubernetes module
• Watch how you can install and bootstrap a Kubernetes cluster with the Puppet Kubernetes module.

Hear about the behind-the-scenes process of creating the 2020 State of DevOps Report. Nigel Kersten and Michael Stahnke dive deep into the data that drives the narrative of the report and take us on a journey dissecting numerous conversations with IT DevOps practitioners and decision makers alike in this episode. 

Learn more

• Download the 2020 State of DevOps Report.
• Read the 2020 DevOps Salary Report to discover how salaries changed during the pandemic.