Arista Networks' EOS operating system now includes a native Puppet agent. Sounds cool, no? Now I'll explain what this means. The advantage of having a native agent in the network OS is that managers ...

Puppet, the company that makes automation software for managing systems and delivering software, has introduced Puppet Bolt, an open-source, agentless multiplatform tool for running commands, scripts, ...

In a previous article, "Provisioning Docker with Puppet", in the December 2016 issue, I covered one of the ways you can install the Docker service onto a new system with Puppet. By contrast, this ...

Puppet software lets you manage the software configuration on all the hosts on your network. It simplifies repetitive operations and ensures state and configuration integrity among large number of ...

I am a terrible person. I like Puppet for configuration management, and I used to manage my personal infrastructure with crude serverless Puppet (git repo, run puppet apply as needed), which worked ...