Leaving Puppet Labs after three and a half years to become VP of Engineering at Venmo in New York

Releasing a module that ships deployment events from Puppet to the New Relic Deployment API via a custom type or a report processor

Releasing a Puppet report processor that ships each metric generated during a Puppet run to Sematext using the sematext-metrics gem

Releasing a Puppet report processor that pushes notifications of failed runs to Opsgenie using a customer API key and recipient list

Releasing a Puppet report processor that ships per-host metrics like changed resources and config retrieval time to StatHat

Nan Liu and Dan Bode have written a whole book on developing Puppet types and providers, available on Kindle and in print

Releasing a module that installs the AppFirst collector on Red Hat, Debian, and Ubuntu and adds a type and provider for managing NRPE checks

Sharing a report processor that ships each Puppet log event to Square's Cube time series collector as a labelled event for dashboard display

Adding GitHub OAuth2 support to the Puppet Online Linter so authorised private repositories can now be linted on commit

A Puppet report processor that sends Puppet run metrics to Librato using the librato-metrics gem, with module install steps

Sharing a report processor that pushes each Puppet log entry onto a Kestrel distributed message queue via the kestrel-client gem

A look at CopperEgg's SAAS monitoring and updates to their Puppet module adding a type and provider for their uptime monitoring API

Releasing a small Sinatra prototype called PSigner that exposes an API for signing Puppet certificates as a starting point for extension

Adding a GitHub post-receive hook to the Puppet Online Linter so each commit gets parsed, linted, and emailed back to the committer

Launching a small Sinatra service that accepts Puppet manifest uploads or API submissions and returns lint errors on screen

A small external node classifier that pulls node definitions from the Yana node authority and maps Yana tags and attributes into Puppet

Releasing a Puppet report processor that pushes notifications of failed runs to a Flowdock team collaboration room via the Flowdock gem

A short post sharing an animated graphic a colleague made of me alongside Nigel from the Spinal Tap movie

Releasing a Puppet module that handles Cloudkick agent installation and node creation via the Cloudkick API

An early look at Sensu, Sonian's RabbitMQ based cloud monitoring framework, plus a Puppet module and Vagrant file for trying it

A look at Boundary's network and flow monitoring tool and a Puppet module I wrote to deploy their probes

Cleaning up the Puppet status panel with a per-node detail screen, per-node run history, Redis hashes instead of JSON, and tidier code

A Sinatra and Redis prototype that displays Puppet run statuses by collecting reports via a custom Puppet report processor

Adding a Puppet report processor that pushes metrics and events from each Puppet run to the DataDog API for graphing and event tracking

A Puppet report processor that opens a Zendesk ticket for each failed Puppet run, with the run log as the ticket description

A Puppet Face sub-command that queries and creates Redmine trouble tickets from the Puppet command line, requiring Puppet 2.7

Sharing two weekend bonus report processors that notify a HipChat room or send an SMS via Twilio when a Puppet run fails

Releasing a report processor that ships failed Puppet runs as Growl notifications to a desktop Growl server over UDP port 9887

A Puppet report processor that sends Jabber and XMPP notifications when Puppet runs fail, using the xmpp4r gem

A Puppet report processor that sends alerts to PagerDuty when Puppet runs fail, including the failing host name and log output

A Puppet report processor that posts failed Puppet runs to Twitter via OAuth, with setup steps for the gems and yaml config

Releasing the second report processor of the week, this one notifies a Campfire room when a Puppet run fails and pastes in the log output

Kicking off a week of report processor demos with two new processors that notify an IRC channel of failed runs and send metrics to Ganglia

Releasing a Puppet integration for John Vincent's Noah configuration store with an ENC, get and put functions, and a config fact

Building a Puppet Face inspired by knife-github-cookbooks that installs modules from GitHub and diffs them against your installed copies

A rough Puppet module that installs Cloud Foundry VCAP on Debian, Ubuntu, and CentOS, going beyond the Ubuntu-only vcap-setup installer

Announcing that the book Jeff McCune and I wrote is now shipping, complete with the proper index readers asked for

Wrapping up the manuscript for Pro Puppet with Jeff McCune, covering Puppet 2.6.x, MCollective, scaling, and reporting in a dozen chapters

A new Vagrant provisioner shipping in 0.7.0 that lets a VM connect to a Puppet master in client-server mode and run as a configured node

A pointer to my guest post on the Agile Web Operations blog covering DevOps, smoking, operations, and occasional swearing

A first cut port of Ubuntu's Mootbot meeting bot from Eggdrop to an Rbot plug-in, with voting and tracking working

Pointing readers at the Eventbrite registration page for the 2010 San Francisco Puppet Camp gathering

Putting the 2.6.0 release candidate out for testing, with the XMLRPC to REST cut-over, basic Windows support, and a rewritten reporting system

Pre-work instructions for attendees of the beginner Puppet tutorial at OSCON 2010, including the CentOS 5.4 VM image

An update on porting Puppet to Windows by David Schmitt and Markus, with a link to the in-progress branch on GitHub for testing

Reminding the community that the Forge holds standalone types, providers, functions, and facts as well as modules to make sharing easier

Announcing the public beta of the Puppet Module Repository along with the puppet-module gem for building, managing, and installing modules

A small gem that scaffolds Puppet configuration, modules, nodes, classes, defines, functions, and types from the command line

Using Cucumber Scenario Outlines to collapse repetitive infrastructure tests into a single template fed by a table of example values

Instructions for installing Puppet Dashboard 1.0.0rc1 from new RPM and DEB packages hosted in the Puppet Labs APT and Yum repositories

Why dev and ops need to merge, and four quadrants I see as the heart of DevOps: simplicity, relationships, process and automation, continuous improvement

Walking through a Puppet type and ParsedFile provider that manages entries in /etc/shells using the built-in parsing helpers

A worked example showing how to write a simple Puppet type and providers for managing Git and Subversion repository checkouts

Shipping a fast maintenance release that adds prerun and postrun transaction hooks and fixes a regression breaking cron job creation

Listing the seven Toyota Production System principles that map most directly to IT operations and previewing how to apply each one

Reposting Teyo Tyree's full comment on Puppet versus Chef explaining dependency graphs against procedural ordering and the value of an external DSL

Releasing the Clifford maintenance build to address a regression in 0.25.2 that broke command execution, along with cron and mount bug fixes

Shipping the Zoe maintenance release with 123 tickets closed, including host alias changes, AIX cron support, and SELinux upper case contexts

Drawing parallels between manufacturing production lines and IT operations, and introducing Toyota Production System concepts like lean, JIT, and Kanban

Asking the community to hammer on release candidate 3 with a few more bugs squashed, with a production release expected within days

Calling for testing on the second release candidate after a missing commit forced a quick respin from RC1, with 118 tickets resolved

Applying Behaviour Driven Development to infrastructure monitoring using Cucumber and Cucumber-Nagios to test that services actually do what users expect

Posting release notes for the zoot maintenance release with clarified require behaviour, regex node matching fixes, and dozens of bug fixes

Reflections on the first Puppet Camp in San Francisco, the unconference sessions, the people met, and lessons learned for next time

Splitting the Puppet Metaparameter reference out of the Type Reference and moving it to a new wiki page

Travel notes from arriving in San Francisco for Puppet Camp, getting Pro Puppet chapters drafted in business class on the flight

A quick nod to Ohloh, a register of open source projects that peers into the code to show the structure and life of each one

Shipping the Elmo release with Indirected REST replacing XML-RPC, regex node matching, new language features, and Puppet queuing support

Starting work on a second edition of the Puppet book, provisionally titled Practical Puppet or Pro Puppet

Announcing the first release candidate for Puppet 0.25.0 with Indirected REST, regex node matching, new functions, and thin stored configurations

Brice Figureau has spun up Planet Puppet, a moonmoon planet aggregating community blog posts about Puppet

Step by step instructions for installing Pandoc on Fedora 10 via Cabal, including the small cabal file edit needed to build from source

Following up on the Hudson EC2 plugin with an init script that bootstraps each build node so it can run Facter and Puppet tests

Trying out the Hudson EC2 plugin to spin up build nodes on demand and cover the many platforms Puppet and Facter need to test against

Cataloguing the useful scripts, editor modes, Nagios plug-ins, and helper tools that live in the ext directory of the Puppet tarball

Announcing a new book with Peter Lieverdink and Dennis Matotek covering Linux administration for small and medium businesses

Running a panel with the creators and maintainers of cfengine, Puppet, AutomateIT, Chef, and bcfg2 to discuss their philosophies

Putting the first beta of 0.25.0 into the wild for testing, with the new Indirected REST transport replacing XML-RPC and queuing support