In DevOps environments, managing servers is becoming a difficult task, but it’s one that is crucial to the efficiency and smooth operation of the end user experience. Configuration, provisioning and ...

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 ...

The proliferation of virtualization coupled with the increasing power of industry-standard servers and the availability of cloud computing has led to a significant uptick in the number of servers that ...

You’ve decided you want to start automating, you’ve talked to friends and colleagues, done some Googling, and narrowed your choice to two likely options — Ansible or Puppet. From what you’ve read and ...

At a time when the configuration management market was dominated by Puppet and Chef, an open source project called Ansible emerged with a simpler approach to automating IT environments. An agentless ...

Chef and Puppet are, for many, synonymous with the concept of automating the development and operational deployment (DevOps) of applications. The two products are the most popular in the space, have ...