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April 2012 
 
Getting Started With Puppet
Announcing Puppet Enterprise 2.5
Windows, RBAC, Puppet Forge integration, and the Puppet Data Library.
VIDEO: Installing Puppet on Windows
Check out the screencasts for other new features.
VIDEO: Using the Puppet Module Tool
Puppet Forge integration FTW!
Puppet Module Cheat Sheet
Keep it handy while prepping your newest modules.
Watch PE 2.5 in Action: Join a Webinar
Demo and Q&A. Don't forget the Twitter Chat (April 4, 11 am PT).
 

Puppet Master Power-Ups
How-to: Getting Puppet Stats into Graphite
Start taking advantage of Puppet's insight into your infrastructure.
Puppet Internals: The Compiler
@_masterzen_ dives into the heart of Puppet.
SLIDES: Puppet/OpenStack - Our Current Integration Efforts
Watch this space for more integration highlights.
SLIDES: Puppet Data Mining - Report processors, stored configs, & more
Gareth Rushgrove's Puppet Camp Edinburgh talk. Did somebody say "Puppet Data Library"?
Puppet Sandbox
"Puppet Sandbox is a multi-VM Vagrant-based Puppet development environment used for creating and testing new modules outside of your production environment."
 

Graphic of the Month
Puppet Enterprise on Windows—just one of the additional features in Puppet Enterprise 2.5. Watch the videos about the new features.
 
Puppet Enterprise on Windows
 

DevOps In Action
Vagrant Virtualized Dev Environments
A comprehensive case for using Vagrant for your dev environment.
SiiconANGLE: How an Established Company Can Start Doing DevOps
Advice for enacting change in change-adverse corporate environments.
 

Puppet Community
Puppet Camp: New Dates for Los Angeles, Dublin, and Geneva—Tickets left for New York
Grab your tickets for the one-day Puppet event in your area.
Google Summer of Code Projects
Applications due Friday, so fill 'em out ASAP!
Featured module: j-russel/puppet-scribe
"Installs scribe package and configures scribe service and store configuration."
Example42: Testing Puppet Runs with Puppi
There's no such thing as "too cautious." Helpful how-to.

Puppet In The News
Forbes: Puppet Labs Helps Manage Server Proliferation
Boosting servers/sysadmin from 19 to 287, w/out complexity gains.
ZDNet: Puppet 2.5 Propels Ahead with Windows, Big Data Support
"'It enables us to use a common management tool across two of the most common OS platforms, Linux and Windows.'"
PCWorld: Puppet Enterprise gets a Data Library
Puppet knows more about your infrastructure than anyone/thing else, and the data library gives the user access to do any analysis they want to do.

In Case You Missed It
Why Puppet isn't a File Management Tool
Luke explains why he wrote Puppet the way he did.
SLIDES: Stanford Hackathon
A quick primer on module dev, led by @bodepd and @sesshin.
SLIDES: Modern Module Development
@ken_barber gives us more on modules at the Edinburgh Puppet Camp
 
Puppet Camps
Regional Puppet Camps New York City
April 27
Los Angeles
May 19
Dublin
July 6
Geneva
July 11
Upcoming Events
PE 2.5 Q&A webinars
Tue, 11 AM PST, Thu 4 PM PST
Puppet Twitter Chat
Wed, Apr 4 at 11 AM PST

 
Upcoming Trainings
Amsterdam - sponsored by Amazic Source
Mon, Apr 23 - Wed, Apr 25
Toronto
Tue, Apr 24 - Thu, Apr 26
San Francisco/a>
Tue, Apr 24 - Thu, Apr 26
London
Mon, Apr 30 - Wed, May 2
Washington DC
Wed, May 9 - Fri, May 11
Los Angeles
Tue, May 15 - Thu, May 17

 
Module of the Week
puppetlabs/stdlib (part 1)
puppetlabs/stdlib (part 2)
puppetlabs/stdlib (part 3)
puppetlabs/stdlib (part 4)
puppetlabs/apt

 
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