Shipping a fast maintenance release that adds prerun and postrun transaction hooks and fixes a regression breaking cron job creation
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Puppet 0.25.4 released! The Tortoise and not the Hare 2 - Principles Listing the seven Toyota Production System principles that map most directly to IT operations and previewing how to apply each one
Puppet, Chef, deterministic ordering and the much maligned DSL Reposting Teyo Tyree's full comment on Puppet versus Chef explaining dependency graphs against procedural ordering and the value of an external DSL
Puppet 0.25.3 - "Clifford" released! Releasing the Clifford maintenance build to address a regression in 0.25.2 that broke command execution, along with cron and mount bug fixes
Puppet 0.25.2 "Zoe" released! Shipping the Zoe maintenance release with 123 tickets closed, including host alias changes, AIX cron support, and SELinux upper case contexts
Photobooth James A photobooth portrait from the Photobooth Project where, for once, I do not look like shit in the picture
The Tortoise and not the Hare - Part 1 Drawing parallels between manufacturing production lines and IT operations, and introducing Toyota Production System concepts like lean, JIT, and Kanban