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Puppet Agent 7 - marking packages to be held

Nov 19, 2020 By Puppet In Puppet

In previous versions of Puppet, there was not a good way to specify a package version and also mark the package as held on the Debian platform. Puppet 7 adds a new parameter that allows you to specify both at the same time.

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Puppet Agent 7 - Filebucket hash algorithm update

Nov 19, 2020 By Puppet In Puppet

Puppet 7 upgrades the default filebucket hash digest algorithm from MD5 to SHA256, which is generally a good thing. However, this makes upgrades just a little tricky. The mitigation for this is simply to set your digest algorithm to SHA256 on server and agent both before upgrade. Gabriel shows us how to do so in this video.

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Puppet Agent 7 - SMF provider consistency

Nov 19, 2020 By Puppet In Puppet

Service Management Facility (SMF) is the service management framework for Solaris as of version 10. In previous versions of Puppet, starting a service was effectively the same as enabling it. This meant that the service provider only supported starting and stopping each service. As of Puppet 7, it works the same as any other service provider.

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Puppet Agent 7 - Windows RubyGems environment

Nov 19, 2020 By Puppet In Puppet

Previous versions of Puppet always installed Ruby Gems into the Puppet provided gempath. That caused surprising behaviour at times, and so now the gem provider will detect if the computer has a system RubyGems installation, and if so, install gems there by default instead.

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MetricFire vs. Datadog

Nov 19, 2020 By Lindsey Rogerson In MetricFire

Before we dive into the specifics of MetricFire vs. Datadog, let's address the most critical point: scaling. Datadog is great for users who need to do a little bit of everything, but Datadog's biggest weakness is scaling. Datadog can do logs, APM, time-series and more, but scaling time-series metrics, alerts, and servers will cause your monthly bill to escalate. The graph below shows what you pay at Datadog vs. MetricFire: Now, let's dive into MetricFire vs. Datadog, and their key comparisons.

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Cloud CI Project

Nov 19, 2020 By Puppet In Puppet

Puppet supports a lot of platforms, including some that aren't well represented in the cloud world, like AIX or Solaris. To cover all these platforms, much of our module testing happened on an internal Jenkins server and our in-house vmpooler infrastructure. This worked pretty well, but had the unfortunate side effect that PRs from community contributors would often get rejected by an opaque process that didn't even tell them what tests failed!

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OpsRamp Fall 2020 Release

Nov 19, 2020 By OpsRamp In OpsRamp

The OpsRamp Fall 2020 Release delivers a frictionless user experience with rapid onboarding of cloud infrastructure, curated dashboards, expanded support for containerized applications, and new process automation functionality.

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Best 10 DevOps Tools for 2021

Nov 19, 2020 By Priya Sony In PagerDuty

Gaining operational maturity isn’t something that happens overnight after implementing new tools. At its core, it’s a concerted effort in shifting culture so that people can break down communication silos to ship better software and implement more transparent processes.

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Chaos Engineeing for Kubernetes with Litmus

Nov 19, 2020 By Civo In Civo

We look at chaos engineering for Kubernetes using Litmus, and how it can help you find bugs and vulnerabilities in your production clusters so you apply fixes - before they become a problem.

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Drill down with Netdata's composite charts and group by node

Nov 19, 2020 By netdata In netdata

Group by node is a new feature in Netdata Cloud's Overview dashboard that helps you drill down to find nodes that might be experiencing anomalous behavior or a full-blown incident. In this short video, we run a small scenario to show you how it works.

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