Publications About Puppet

Puppenspiel

By:	Gunnar Wrobel
On:	German Linux Magazine
Date:	September 2008

"Puppet promises to represent the next generation of configuration management tools It provides its own language to express configuration independent of the operating system used."

Luke Kanies Wants to Modernize System Administration

By:	chromatic
On:	O'Reilly
Date:	August 2008

"Luke Kanies spent some time as a system administrator. That job can have its own tedium -- keeping machines up to date, building new machines, and managing dozens to thousands of individual configurations. Clever administrators automate."

Puppet can ease system administration tasks across the network

By:	Ben Martin
On:	Linux.com
Date:	August 2008

"The Puppet project allows you to issue system administration commands to one or more machines, and will smooth over the differences between distributions for you. For example, if you want to install MySQL, that action should be your primary aim, and you shouldn't have to worry about if the machine is running Maemo, Ubuntu, or Fedora."

Master of Puppets

By:	Larry Ludwig
On:	Empowering Media's blog
Date:	June 2008

"No this post isn’t about the Metallica album, it’s about the provisioning system we use named Puppet. It allows us to automate many of the system administration tasks, to a level that was previously very costly or hard to do."

Puppet at Google

By:	Michael Cote, Redmonk
On:	People Over Process
Date:	June 2008

"I recently talked with Reductive Lab’s Luke Kaines and Google’s Nigel Kersten on the topic of Puppet. First, we go through a quick overview of what Puppet does - establishing the desired configuration of machines by modeling services and then enforcing that model."

The Craft: Automation and Scaling Infrastructure

By:	Andrew Shafer
On:	GigaOM
Date:	June 2008

"Until the late 18th century, craftsmen were a primary source of production. With specialized skills, a craftsman’s economic contribution was a function of personal quantity and quality, and a skilled artisan often found it undesirable, if not impossible, to duplicate previous work with accuracy. Plus, there is a limit to how much a skilled craftsman can do in one day. Scaling up the quantity of crafted goods to meet increased demand was a question of working more or adding more bodies — both of which potentially sacrificed quality and consistency."

Cloudy Saturday: Puppet, for Automating Virtual Machines

By:	Aaron Huslage
On:	OSTATIC
Date:	June 2008

"This is the first of our weekly "Cloudy Saturday" columns that will delve into using cloud computing techniques to manage your own server farms, both large and small. This week we'll talk about the Puppet automation system from Reductive Labs. Puppet is built upon the legacy of the venerable Cfengine system, but takes things to a whole new level."

Expert Q&A: Simplifying configuration management with Puppet

By:	James Turnbull and Caroline Hunter
On:	TechTarget
Date:	April 2008

"Systems administrators have to live with the fact that "configuration management is hard," says James Turnbull, author of the new book Pulling Strings with Puppet. When this task is done, it is often done ad hoc; administrators resort to using a "for" loop and SSH scripts. They may also go with a commercial offering, but this option brings its own challenges. Commercial products are often monolithic and hard to use, configure, learn and manage.

In his book and in this interview, Turnbull describes how to use Puppet and the broader principles of configuration management, particularly when managing multiple systems."

Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy

By:	James Turnbull
On:	Apress
Date:	February 2008

Pulling Strings with Puppet is the first book on Puppet. The book guides you through Puppet’s key features, showing you how to install and configure, create recipes, handle reporting and introduce you to extending Puppet and Facter.

You can find more information about the book here.

Interview with Luke Kanies by Michael Coté

By:	Michael Coté
On:	Redmonk
Date:	October 2007

Coté interviews Luke at InnoTech Austin.

Master of Puppet: System Management Made Easy

By:	Luke Kanies
On:	Linux Magazine
Date:	October 2007

How to install and use Puppet on Red Hat distributions.

Virtual host management: How to use Puppet on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

By:	James Turnbull
On:	Search Enterprise Linux
Date:	June 2007

How to install and use Puppet on Red Hat distributions.

An Introduction to using Puppet

By:	Steve Kemp
On:	Debian Administration
Date:	May 2007

Two articles providing a basic introduction of Puppet (part 1 and part 2).

Straight Talk with Chuck Talk: featuring Luke Kanies of Puppet

By:	Chuck Talk, interviewing Luke Kanies
On:	OpenManagement.org
Date:	May 2007

An interview with Luke covering the what, when, and why of Puppet.

Ubuntu a Mooter for global advertising platform

By:	Rodney Gedda
On:	ComputerWorld.au
Date:	May 2007

A Puppet success story describing how Puppet meets Mooter's automation needs.

Servers Dance on a String With Puppet

By:	Charlie Schluting
On:	Enterprise Networking Planet
Date:	March 2007

A Puppet introduction.

Configuration Automation & Centralized Management With Puppet on Ubuntu

By:	Kent Brede
On:	HowToForge
Date:	February 2007

A step-by-step walkthrough of getting Puppet set up on Ubuntu.

Linux system management now a Puppet penguin

By:	Rodney Gedda, interviewing of Luke Kanies
On:	ComputerWorld.au
Date:	February 2007

Rodney Gedda intervews Luke after LinuxConf.au. There's also an lca2007 video of Luke's presentation, which was his best presentation yet (according to him).

Puppet: Next Generation Configuration Management

By:	Luke Kanies
On:	USENIX's ;login: magazine
Date:	February 2006

The first publication on Puppet, published mere months after Puppet was publicly announced. Much has changed since then.