Latest Pulling the strings Podcast Episodes
2019 State of DevOps Report chat: Security is boring when it's working
Pulling the Strings - October 23, 2019 07:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPuppet’s Nigel Kersten and CircleCI’s Mike Stahnke go behind-the-scenes of the 2019 report to talk about the shift to a security-focused report and where they see these challenges heading and evolving. Learn more • Download the 2019 State of DevOps Report • Listen to: Doing the DevOps with...
Doing the DevOps with Yasmin Rajabi and Nick Maludy
Pulling the Strings - October 08, 2019 22:20 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn today’s episode, we talk to Nick Maludy DevOps Manager at Encore Technologies. He shares his career journey going from a developer to managing teams and applying DevOps at scale. Doing the DevOps can be hard and transformation takes time, Nick shares insight on how his team has implemented c...
Automation and parenting: data-driven diaper changing and more
Pulling the Strings - October 07, 2019 22:50 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe’re covering a few DevOps parallels, data-driven diaper changing, and, apparently, Baby Shark. Taking care of a newborn is a gargantuan task for everyone involved. We invite one of our technologists to tell us more about how he and his partner are automating the rough manual tasks away to mak...
Doing the DevOps with Yasmin Rajabi and Nick Maludy
Pulling the Strings - October 02, 2019 14:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn today’s episode, we talk to Nick Maludy DevOps Manager at Encore Technologies. He shares his career journey going from a developer to managing teams and applying DevOps at scale. Doing the DevOps can be hard and transformation takes time, Nick shares insight on how his team has implemented ...
Contributor Summit was a lot of firsts. What's next?
Pulling the Strings - September 30, 2019 17:45 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLast month, we spent two and a half days in Budapest with some of our best community friends. I think the summary of Contributor Summit was the one common complaint I heard: "There was too much good content and it was really hard to decide between workshops!" said everybody. That's a really go...
Introducing Puppet at Scale: a panel discussion on IT automation and model trains
Pulling the Strings - September 23, 2019 22:50 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSometimes big challenges need to be tested and solved for at a much smaller scale. In this case, it’s the 1:87 model train scale with an interesting experiment coming out of Puppet. Learn more about a new way to bring people together and automate with Bolt. On this episode, Engineers Cas, Ken,...
The best of the rest of Puppetize PDX
Pulling the Strings - September 12, 2019 17:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsYou've probably heard that we've got a conference coming up soon. But have you also heard about the exciting additional events going on around Puppetize PDX? We're coming back home to Portland, and are super excited to show you some of our favorite parts of our city. We've added a few extra eve...
If I tell you, I'd have to kill you: Puppet in Federal Environments
Pulling the Strings - June 28, 2019 18:20 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn this podcast, Eric talks with Bryan Belanger from Fervid about working with Puppet in highly regulated compute environments. As a consultant for US Government agencies, Bryan's been working to get "Authority to Operate" for governmental cloud services, to speed up time to delivery and reduce ...
Contributor Summit 2019: Budapest
Pulling the Strings - May 21, 2019 16:45 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsI hope to see you in Budapest, 4-5 June. Contributor Summit is just around the corner and we can't wait to catch up with you. Budapest will be beautiful in June and we've got two days of workshops, collaboration, hacking, and discussions on the present and future of Puppet projects lined up for...
Community Spotlight: Vox Pupuli
Pulling the Strings - May 08, 2019 14:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsVox Pupuli has long been the backbone of the open source Puppet community. But as often happens when a group is so capable and ubiquitous, sometimes the work done by individuals in the group goes unsung. In this episode, Eric and Hunter tell the story of their own involvement in the group and sh...
Bolt: Uniting Models and Tasks
Pulling the Strings - April 04, 2019 00:25 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsOne of Puppet’s big strengths is declarative automation – you model the desired end state of your infrastructure and Puppet does the hard work of enforcing it. This concept is quite powerful and has become the industry standard for configuration management. But sometimes your workflow doesn't qu...
Guest Feature: Learning from the greybeards with @DevOpsFables
Pulling the Strings - March 07, 2019 01:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt seems like every day is another paradigm shift anymore. SaaS, PaaS, configuration management, cloud native, immutable infrastructure, serverless, and so on. But one has to ask, what do we lose by always chasing the bleeding edge? Information hiding, API contracts, and other ways of abstractin...
Community Spotlight: Corey's Bitcoin Miner
Pulling the Strings - February 06, 2019 17:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe're all familiar with Puppet's main forte; that of managing configuration for computers, servers, cloud instances, etc. But as with any tool, community members often… color outside the lines. Carrying on with our community spotlight series, this episode highlights one of those unusual usages....
Community Spotlight: Puppet Debugger
Pulling the Strings - February 05, 2019 21:10 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe're kicking off 2019 with a bang and a series of spotlights on notable community members and their achievements. We've got some great shows lined up for you, from useful development tools, to community experiences, to lessons we could learn from the history of computing. Let's get started toda...
Puppet Podcast: Introducing the Puppet Development Kit (PDK)
Pulling the Strings - September 01, 2017 15:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe Puppet Development Kit makes it easier than ever to develop and test Puppet modules by providing a simple, unified interface to a set of helpful tools for anyone who writes or consumes Puppet code. Leveraging the Puppet Development Kit, it’s now possible to: Quickly get started developing ...
Puppet Podcast: Meet Lumogon
Pulling the Strings - May 23, 2017 15:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsEditor's note: The Lumogon open source project is now unmaintained. The technology is part of Puppet Discovery, which lets you discover what's running in your hybrid infrastructure — from servers to VMs, cloud instances and containers. On May 11th, we announced Lumogon™, a new technology for i...
Security and DevOps: Puppet Podcast with Gareth Rushgrove
Pulling the Strings - November 16, 2016 00:53 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSign up for our podcast on iTunes or subscribe to our feed with your favorite player. Welcome to the final episode of our three-part infrastructure security series. Puppet senior software engineer Gareth Rushgrove chats about the future of infrastructure security, and how breaking down organiz...
Puppet Podcast: Security with Luke Kanies and Chris Barker
Pulling the Strings - October 31, 2016 17:53 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSign up for our podcast on iTunes or subscribe to our feed with your favorite player. In this podcast about IT security, hear Puppet founder Luke Kanies talk about how he built security into Puppet from the beginning; how his thinking on security has evolved; how locking down systems too tight...
Puppet Podcast: Security with Ben Hughes of Etsy
Pulling the Strings - October 11, 2016 21:14 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSign up for our podcast on iTunes or subscribe to our feed with your favorite player. The Puppet Podcast is back with a three-part series on security. “But wait, isn’t Puppet all about DevOps?” you ask. Here’s the thing: People have always used Puppet for security. (Check out Bill Weiss’ talk ...
Gene Kim on Being a Change Agent in IT & insights from DevOps Enterprise Summit
Pulling the Strings - April 17, 2015 21:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsNote: This podcast was originally posted on November 6th, and we're reposting it to our main podcast channel. Welcome to the Conversations with Puppet Labs podcast. We'll be talking with folks in the industry about a variety of topics that affect IT operations. Over the next few weeks, we'll ...
Podcast: What's New with Razor
Pulling the Strings - February 25, 2015 13:24 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn the latest edition of the Puppet Podcast, you’ll find out about Razor, the Puppet provisioning application. The Puppet Labs software engineers who work on Razor, David Lutterkort and Scott McClellan, join Kent Bye and Kara Sowles to discuss the history of Razor and the new capabilities you c...
Up to 80 Times More Deployments for Hiscox Insurance with Puppet Enterprise
Pulling the Strings - February 20, 2015 18:54 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsJonathan Fletcher of Hiscox Insurance talks about building a reusable change platform with Puppet that includes continuous integration and testing tools. His teams have seen a radical increase in the pace of change, going from a half-dozen deployments in a 10-week change cycle to as many as 50 ...
Elisabeth Hendrickson on Reducing Feedback Loop Cycles
Pulling the Strings - February 06, 2015 16:51 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsElisabeth Hendrickson is currently the senior director of engineering at Pivotal, and a longtime evangelist for testing. In this week's podcast, Elisabeth talks about the process of cultivating a cohesive engineering culture at Pivotal through the introduction of extreme programming techniques....
Linda Rising: Fearless Change and Patterns for Introducing New Ideas
Pulling the Strings - January 30, 2015 18:09 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLinda Rising is the co-author of the book Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas. She's studied change management within organizations for over 20 years, and discovered 48 patterns of behavior that are associated with successful change. In this podcast, Linda covers the importance ...
Derek Austin: DevOps Culture & Implementing Continuous Delivery
Pulling the Strings - January 23, 2015 19:31 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDerek Austin is a technical project manager at Puppet Labs. In a prior life, Derek was involved with a big change initiative to bring about more continuous delivery practices, as well as a DevOps culture, to his organization. The company needed a more rapid and repeatable deployment process, an...
Starting and Growing a Puppet User Group
Pulling the Strings - January 15, 2015 13:25 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn the latest edition of the Puppet Podcast, you’ll find out how to start and grow a Puppet User Group (PUG) in your city. Nick Huanca, Denver PUG organizer, Byron Miller, Austin PUG organizer and Kara Sowles, Portland PUG organizer, all sit in with me to share the tips and tricks they’ve disco...
Adrian Cockcroft: Managing Cloud Infrastructure at Netflix
Pulling the Strings - January 09, 2015 17:17 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAdrian Cockcroft was the cloud architect at Netflix from 2010 to 2013, and took part in the initial process of evaluating, validating and migrating Netflix services to the public cloud — an initiative that started in 2008. Adrian has keen insights into the work culture and processes that make ...
Karl Matthias: Shipping Multiple Times Per Day Changes Infrastructure Management
Pulling the Strings - January 02, 2015 17:55 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe recently talked with Karl Matthias, site reliability engineer at New Relic. Karl works on the company's huge-scale database infrastructure, where over 300 billion metrics are written to disk every day. In this podcast, Karl talks about the role of automation at New Relic, and how automation...
Podcast: How to Contribute to the Puppet Core
Pulling the Strings - December 29, 2014 19:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn this edition of the Puppet podcast, Kara and Kent sat down with Felix Frank, Puppet power user and systems engineer, and Josh Partlow, Puppet Labs software engineer, to chat about contributing to the Puppet core projects — primarily Puppet, Facter and Hiera. Felix is one of the top contribut...
Rob Reynolds: Practical Ways to Simplify Windows Administration
Pulling the Strings - December 19, 2014 22:03 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn this podcast installment, Rob Reynolds, software engineer at Puppet Labs, talks about some of the tools that make it easier to automate Windows environments, including Powershell, Puppet, and the package manager he wrote called Chocolatey. This discussion is especially timely, given the rel...
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