Podcasts from Puppet

On this episode of the Puppet podcast, Javier Perez and Dotan Horovits explain why vendors and consumers need a new way to think about distribution, monetization & use of OSS in today's changing open source world.

2024 is shaping up to be the biggest year on record for software vulnerabilities identified. How are security, compliance, and ops teams supposed to respond? We talked with the CISO of the Center for Internet Security about exactly that.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

The days of slapping together compliant configurations are over. Continuous compliance needs a cooperative approach. On this episode of Pulling the Strings, hear what compliance pros recommend and why ‘cowboy compliance’ just won’t cut it anymore.

On this episode of Pulling the Strings, Ben Ford sits down with Yeshua Hall to talk about Yeshua’s experience building the Puppet module known as zend_common.