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puppetlabs.com
Company blog · puppetlabs.com/blogsystemsprogramming
puppetlabs.com is the company blog at puppetlabs.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2010, 73 different Hacker News readers have linked it 89 times, most often “Trapperkeeper is a new Clojure framework for long-running applications, services”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Puppet Labs pages for Puppet configuration management: product and PuppetConf material, blog posts, and announcements such as the Apache relicensing. Many links are cited as sources or sit in job listings.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-03-04
- /3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-08-27
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-07-12
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-03-28
- /solutions/next-generation-provisioning2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-28
- /blog/introducing-manifest-ordered-resources2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-05
- /misc/download-options/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-03
- Trapperkeeper is a new Clojure framework for long-running applications, services2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-13
- Puppet Labs acquires open source tool from author2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-07
What Hacker News says?
Voting for Ansible or Puppet here. http://ansible.cc/ https://puppetlabs.com/
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on “How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server”Submitted Trapperkeeper is a new Clojure framework for long-running applications, services as a story · 229 points
HN discussionWe use Chef, many people run Puppet. http://www.opscode.com/chef/ https://puppetlabs.com/
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on “How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server”Submitted Puppet 4 is now production-ready as a story · 47 points
HN discussionOh yes, I forgot about the legendary Ruby On Rails code quality: http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-0277
Comment linking /security/cve/cve-2013-0277
on “Node.js in Flame Graphs”Submitted 2015 State of Devops Report [pdf] as a story · 38 points
HN discussionHow would you compare Terraform to something like Razor? I think it might be a good one to add to your "vs Other Software" section: http://puppetlabs.com/solutions/next-generation-provisioning
Comment linking /solutions/next-generation-provisioning
on “Terraform”Submitted Puppet Labs acquires open source tool from author as a story · 18 points
HN discussionPuppet not only allows you to deploy changes but makes sure they stay. There is something called Puppet Dashboard, that allows you to see all the installed clients, who has a valid config, who is outside that config. This allows you to quickly see machines that need attention. There are some better screenshots here [2]. [1] https://puppetlabs.com/puppet/related-projects/dashboard/ [2] http://bitcube.co.uk/content/pu…
Comment linking /puppet/related-projects/dashboard/
on “Introducing Boxen”Submitted Sysadmin Horror Stories as a story · 11 points
HN discussionI'd recommend puppet or ansible. http://ansible.cc/ http://puppetlabs.com/
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on “How to set up a safe and secure Web server”Submitted A Message From the CEO as a story · 10 points
HN discussionIt seems to be vanilla Ubuntu 11.10 server. And yes, you’d use something like puppet[1]. [1] http://puppetlabs.com/
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on “Show HN: Gridspot, 10x cheaper cloud compute using distributed computing”Submitted YAML Remote Code Execution in Puppet as a story · 8 points
HN discussionPuppet Labs in Portland, OR, is hiring for several new positions on our Technical Operations team: * Support Engineer - Linux/Unix SysAdmin background preferred * Technical Writer - 3+ years experience required * Technical Training Manager - 10+ years experience in technical training management role with experience training IT professionals in Linux/Unix based programs We are also hiring an Intern for our Release En…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)”Submitted Speed Up SSH by Reusing Connections as a story · 4 points
HN discussionPuppet Labs ( http://www.puppetlabs.com/jobs ) - Portland, OR We have grown from 20 to over 80 employees in just over a year and continue to add positions, including: Operations Engineer, Support Engineer (Portland) Professional Services Engineer (Portland or NYC) Sr Sales Engineer (anywhere in US) For these roles, we are looking for awesome people with strong *nix sysadmin background to join our growing Operations,…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)”Submitted We can go home now: Majority of teams already DevOps, says Puppet Labs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnd the linear top/down flow, also known as manifest ordering, is now available with Puppet. See http://puppetlabs.com/blog/introducing-manifest-ordered-reso...
Comment linking /blog/introducing-manifest-ordered-resources
on “Moving away from Puppet: SaltStack or Ansible?”Submitted Results of the State of DevOps Survey [infographic] as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'm a little sad because most of these issues (as I understand your description them) are already fixed or well underway :( It's probably too late for your specific case but I'd like to reply anyway since a lot of this is "conventional wisdom" based on old information. Full disclosure: I'm the product owner for Puppet and before I worked here, I ran it in large-scale production since 2008. Not quite sure what you me…
Comment linking /blog/introducing-manifest-ordered-resources
on “Moving away from Puppet: SaltStack or Ansible?”Submitted Creating a sane development environment with puppet and vagrant as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCan I ask why you chose GPL for Ansible? This makes it more challenging to integrate or embed Ansible in many types of commercial or non-GPL projects. Chef [1] and Puppet [2] both chose the Apache license. Salt did as well. If you were worried about competitors offering hosted versions of Ansible, I could understand going AGPL, but not GPL3. Thanks! [1]: http://www.opscode.com/blog/2009/08/11/why-we-chose-the-apac..…
Comment linking /apache/
on “Ansible Simply Kicks Ass”Submitted Evolving Puppet for the Next 10 Years as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's not LaTeX, but a historian recently posted on HN his work flow for using plaintext and Pandoc for writing papers [1]. I've been using markdown+pandoc [2] for a book of stories for my family. TeX/LateX exerts nearly absolute (albeit, gorgeous) control over layout, whereas e-book readers often provide the reader with many configurable layout options. Thus, e-book formats tend towards a content-with-minimal-layout…
Comment linking /blog/automated-ebook-generation-convert-markdown-epub-mobi-pandoc-kindlegen
on “Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents”Submitted Geppetto: A Puppet IDE as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPuppet Labs is trying to rock the DevOps/Sysadmin world with our model-driven approach to config management. We're based in Portland, OR, and aren't looking for remote workers as yet. We're looking for both Core Developers and Pro Services Engineers, and no matter what, you'll be working with open source software and a highly engaged user community, as well as on a project that is included in most of the major *nix…
Comment linking /company/jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (January 2011 Edition)”Submitted Announcing Puppet Enterprise 3.0 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI have pretty much the same setup at my work too. It goes Gitlab->Jenkins->Puppetmaster. This works super well with Puppet dynamic environments, since each team member can have their own branch to mess around in and make mistakes. On our master branch you have to pass puppet parser validate and puppet-lint before things get to production, which helps cut down on errors. http://puppetlabs.com/blog/git-workflow-and-pu…
Comment linking /blog/git-workflow-and-puppet-environments
on “How to Create Your Own Git Server”Submitted Puppet Labs closes $40M funding round as a story · 2 points
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