Latest Pulling the strings Podcast Episodes
Creating Community with an Employee Resource Group (ERG)
Pulling the Strings - June 29, 2022 14:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsCreating and maintaining community is hard, especially when you don't bump into each other in the hallways on the regular. And community is vital, especially when it advocates for you and helps create a safe space to bring your whole self to work. Todd and Melissa share their experiences with Pu...
Managing your configuration management system shouldn't be hard
Pulling the Strings - May 25, 2022 14:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsManaging the configuration of an entire ecosystem is not an easy thing to do, and bootstrapping the system that manages that configuration is even more challenging. Edwin from Puppet’s Solutions Architects team shows us a tool they've built that aims to simplify that task. Learn more: Join our...
CentOS 8 is EOL, so now what?
Pulling the Strings - April 27, 2022 14:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsCentOS has become the de facto standard operating system for many organizations since it’s basically the same thing as RHEL, rebranded and without commercial support. CentOS was originally a community project, but over time Red Hat has become more influential in its direction and has shifted it...
Automating your way to compliance across your entire cloud infrastructure
Pulling the Strings - March 09, 2022 15:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsCortez worked his way up through the ranks as a cloud security and compliance engineer, managing hundreds of production applications. Now he's taking those grueling lessons and teaching the team at Relay how to automate away tedium and toil. Join us as Cortez shares stories from the field and so...
Practice and prepare for your next security threat
Pulling the Strings - February 09, 2022 15:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe recent log4j fiasco reminded us that not only is it important to stay updated and current with security news, but it's also critical to have safe ways to deploy configuration updates or orchestrate reporting/remediation scripts across your infrastructure as quickly as possible. Jeremy and Ni...
How Puppet's open source DNA is paving the path ahead
Pulling the Strings - January 12, 2022 15:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPuppet has been open source since day one and our success has largely been built on community contributions. One could even say that it's part of our DNA. Now the question is where do we take it from here? Puppet CTO Abby Kearns and Chief Architect Chip Childers have a long and storied history w...
The best part of the PowerShell Gallery is that it's on the Puppet Forge
Pulling the Strings - December 15, 2021 15:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe DSC configuration engine is the standard way to manage Windows systems, and it’s incredibly powerful. Now it's easier to use too, because all the PowerShell Gallery DSC resources are only a `puppet module install` away. Mike and Bill are here to tell you the whole story, from building the in...
A paradigm shift: Puppet and ServiceNow integrations
Pulling the Strings - November 17, 2021 15:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsUser research shows that a huge number of our customers were using ServiceNow alongside Puppet Enterprise. It only made sense to teach the tools how to integrate with each other so that users didn't have to switch between them. Molly and Milad join us from Puppet's Integrations team to tell us h...
Learn at your convenience with Puppet Practice Labs
Pulling the Strings - July 14, 2021 14:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLearning new tools is hard enough on its own. But then you often have to install software, set up a working environment, download a dev kit, or more. Our Education team recently released the new Puppet Practice Labs, which let you learn the Puppet ecosystem at your own pace and remove all these ...
Being out at work and the importance of role models
Pulling the Strings - June 16, 2021 14:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPride is a celebration of our true selves -- of loving yourself for who you are, and of accepting and loving others for who they are. It can be a challenge to feel safe being out and proud without role models providing guidance and showing the way. Listen to Melissa Casburn share her personal a...
CTO Chronicles: The DevOps Edition
Pulling the Strings - June 09, 2021 14:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAbby Kearns and Deepak Giridharagopal share their unique experience of being co-CTOs and where Puppet is headed in the near future on this episode of Pulling the Strings. Learn more: Stay up to date with Abby’s Medium or follow her on Twitter. Follow Deepak on Twitter and LinkedIn.
The keys to unlock your developer voice
Pulling the Strings - May 26, 2021 14:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsBen Ford explains the importance of content and why developer insights help to build stronger communities on this episode of Pulling the Strings podcast. He also provides details on a better Puppet Developer Kit (PDK) and improvements to the Puppet Forge. Learn More: Learn more about the Puppe...
Beaker's past, present and future
Pulling the Strings - May 05, 2021 14:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAcceptance testing is fun, I know! In this episode of Pulling the Strings, Lucy Wyman, Gene Liverman, and Trevor Vaughan explain multi-node testing with Beaker, how Beaker is different from Litmus, and future plans for Beaker. Learn More: Install Beaker here. Watch the presentation of Beaker...
Virtualization & Kubernetes: Why another abstraction?
Pulling the Strings - April 07, 2021 14:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsI had virtualization… Then you gave me Kubernetes on top of virtualization. I thought Kubernetes was supposed to be the answer, and now you’re telling me it’s not the answer and I need something else on top of Kubernetes?! The conundrum is solved on this episode of Pulling the Strings with Marte...
Life after the State of DevOps Report - Scaling DevOps
Pulling the Strings - March 17, 2021 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHear about the behind-the-scenes process of creating the 2020 State of DevOps Report. Nigel Kersten and Michael Stahnke dive deep into the data that drives the narrative of the report and take us on a journey dissecting numerous conversations with IT DevOps practitioners and decision makers alik...
The gateway elixir to automated infrastructure testing
Pulling the Strings - February 03, 2021 15:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhat is Onceover testing you may ask? A tool to automatically run basic tests on an entire Puppet controlrepo, it was written mostly while sipping inflight cocktails on airplanes. Dylan Ratcliffe explains Onceover testing and addresses some of the reasons it exists in the first place. Tune in to...
Puppet Comply
Pulling the Strings - January 13, 2021 15:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAlex Hin shares his expertise from years in the cybersecurity industry on compliance and the importance behind adhering to CIS benchmarks. Learn More Learn more about Puppet Comply. See a demo of Puppet Comply in this session from Puppetize Digital. Learn more about Puppet’s journey into Con...
The benefits of using Hiera Data Manager
Pulling the Strings - December 23, 2020 15:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMartin Alfke from example42 drills down into the unique value of Hiera Data Manager and how it heavily reduces time needed for data analysis and setting. Learn More Hiera Data Manager
Halloween Edition: 2020 DevOps horror stories
Pulling the Strings - December 02, 2020 15:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe know Halloween is over; however, these #DevOps stories are still mentally wreaking havoc on all that was involved. Ben Ford, Rob Nelson, and Mike Smith bravely share their experiences that were close to creating resume generating events in this episode. Tune in for how they recovered and the ...
The power of UX design at Puppet
Pulling the Strings - October 28, 2020 14:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhat has 2020 brought us besides cultural and operational change? Hopefully, it has pushed you to appreciate the aesthetically pleasing design of Puppet’s User Interface. Rick Monro is one of the wizards behind the architecture curtain of the Puppet UX. Rick explains why IT Directors should care...
OSP Assist: The one-stop Open Source Portal
Pulling the Strings - October 14, 2020 14:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHave you hit a wall with your Open Source automation platform? Are you frustrated that your support has been limited? Well, Jesse Brennan and Claire Hernandez will calm your nerves with four words: Open Source Puppet Assist. They share how you can gain access to exclusive tools and content on Pu...
Open Source Stewards Unite
Pulling the Strings - September 23, 2020 14:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAs the new normal continues, the evolution of open-source software thrives. Lucy Wyman runs down the evolution and importance of Puppet’s Open Source Stewards on this episode. Learn more Find out why Puppet is moving toward a more diverse culture and also removing harmful language from its c...
Hydra: leveraging Slack to build seamlessly
Pulling the Strings - September 02, 2020 14:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAre you using Slack to do cool things (other than chatting about Netflix episodes at the virtual water cooler)? In today’s episode, Martez Reed and Demetrius Malbrough discuss how Hydra integrates with Slack to create and scale virtual environments. If you are interested in how your environment ...
How to build an awesome open source community
Pulling the Strings - August 12, 2020 14:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhat do you get when you mix DevOps Engineers, BBQ, and uncontrollable fits of throwing yourself off of mountains? You get Tim Meusel and Robert Müller dropping science around Vox Pupuli and how to build an awesome open source community. They also share some valuable insights around how they got...
Modules, APIs, & SLAs: Automating Backups with Rubrik & Puppet
Pulling the Strings - July 22, 2020 14:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHave you considered putting your backups on auto-pilot? Rebecca Fitzhugh, Director of Developer Relations at Rubrik, discusses the modules that leverage Puppet on Pulling the Strings. Learn how to automate your Service Level Agreements and a simple way to install Backup Connectors across a fleet...
All coding and no games keeps the fun away
Pulling the Strings - June 24, 2020 14:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhat does cross-team collaboration, git murder mysteries, and role-playing games have in common? The incredible DevOps superpowers of Ben Ford and Garrett Rowell answer those questions for you in this Pulling the Strings episode. Their collaboration resulted in an engaging game that debuted duri...
How to clean up the DevOps dumping ground with Relay
Pulling the Strings - June 10, 2020 14:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsCloud teams are drowning in an increasing, unsustainable volume of external events: cloud events, git events, monitoring alerts, tickets, incidents, and others. In response, engineers manually perform a disparate set of actions across various cloud providers, container platforms, CI/CD tools, co...
What's new with the Puppet VS Code Extension, anyway?
Pulling the Strings - April 16, 2020 14:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPuppet's developer experience has been through a lot of growing pains. Many of us learned Puppet before the PDK existed, when the state of the art was SSHing into a Puppet master, manually making a module's directory structure, and cracking open Vim to edit our manifests. Some of us still do tha...
Continuous Delivery and Cloud Native Infrastructure with Nebula Team
Pulling the Strings - December 11, 2019 23:32 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn this podcast, Eric Sorenson and Melissa Sussmann will be exploring the challenges that DevOps engineers face in using cloud-native infrastructure and how Puppet can help with your deployments. Continuous deployment is essential to the growing cloud-native space, especially in the case of con...
Continuous Delivery and Cloud-Native Infrastructure with Nebula team
Pulling the Strings - November 14, 2019 15:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn this podcast, Eric Sorenson and Melissa Sussmann will be exploring the challenges that DevOps engineers face in using cloud-native infrastructure and how Puppet can help with your deployments. Continuous deployment is essential to the growing cloud-native space, especially in the case of co...
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