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  Power your Puppet reports with PowerBI in 10 minutes
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  This article provides a step-by-step guidance to connect PuppetDB to PowerBI to create interactive reports and dashboards in 10 minutes.

  
  
  https://puppet.com/blog/power-your-puppet-reports-with-powerbi-in-10-minutes/
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  Announcing the Relay public beta
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  Explore how Relay by Puppet connects infrastructure/ops platforms, APIs, and tools together into an extensible, easy-to-automate tasks and events platform.

  
  
  https://puppet.com/blog/announcing-the-relay-public-beta/
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  How one bank modernized their infrastructure and optimized costs
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  See how the Royal Bank of Scotland Group moved from physical servers and manual processes to VMs, the cloud and automation — and saved £7 million.

  
  
  https://puppet.com/blog/how-one-bank-modernized-their-infrastructure-and-optimized-costs/
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  Bridge the gap between the past, present, and future with Puppet
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  What does the past, present, and future have to do with DevOps automation? Learn how to bridge the gap from Open Source Puppet to Puppet Enterprise.

  
  
  https://puppet.com/blog/bridge-the-gap-between-the-past-present-and-future-with-puppet/
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  Version ranges: a smarter way to manage packages with Puppet
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  You can now specify a desired version range to be respected by your packages when managing them with Puppet.

  
  
  https://puppet.com/blog/version-ranges-a-smarter-way-to-manage-packages-with-puppet/
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  Updated Puppet GPG signing key, 2020 edition
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  The GPG key we use to sign Puppet products on Linux is expiring soon, so we’ve switched to a new key. You’ll need to import it to use the repos.

  
  
  https://puppet.com/blog/updated-puppet-gpg-signing-key-2020-edition/
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  Announcing record of remediation & audit logs in Puppet Remediate 1.3
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  Now Puppet Remediate offers more capabilities to help you track and trace network activity, and give you more control of the data in your dashboard.

  
  
  https://puppet.com/blog/announcing-record-of-remediation-and-audit-log-in-puppet-remediate-1-3/
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  New Puppet facts for Windows
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  Introducing some Windows-specific facts recently added to Facter to give you Windows-specific build and installed edition information.

  
  
  https://puppet.com/blog/new-puppet-facts-for-windows/
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  Puppet stands with the Black community
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  Silence prevents progress, so join us in speaking up for equality and justice for Black lives now and always.

  
  
  https://puppet.com/blog/puppet-stands-with-the-black-community/
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  Scaling open source Puppet
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  An easy and repeatable process for scaling open source Puppet implementations for larger environments.

  
  
  https://puppet.com/blog/scaling-open-source-puppet/
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  Are speed and security mutually exclusive?
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  IT executives consistently identify cybersecurity and speed among their top priorities. But is it possible to move both faster and more securely?

  
  
  https://puppet.com/blog/are-speed-and-security-mutually-exclusive/
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  Use Onceover to start testing your Puppet control repository
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  Is there a simple way to quickly test your Puppet code? Yes! The answer is Onceover, and this blog post will show you how.

  
  
  https://puppet.com/blog/use-onceover-to-start-testing-your-puppet-control-repository/
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  Enforcing CIS compliance with Puppet
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  Compliance is a big pain point for many companies — and one of the most important things to get right. See how our new CIS compliance service can help.

  
  
  https://puppet.com/blog/enforcing-cis-compliance-with-puppet/
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  Configure and manage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure components with Puppet
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  Define and manage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with your existing Puppet code using the new module from Enterprise Modules.

  
  
  https://puppet.com/blog/configure-and-manage-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-components-with-puppet/
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  Provisioning ESXi servers at Puppet with Bolt
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  An SRE at Puppet walks you through what they learned — and how they automated things — when adding ESXi servers to their internal CI service.

  
  
  https://puppet.com/blog/provisioning-esxi-servers-at-puppet-with-bolt/
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  Integrate Litmus acceptance tests into CD for PE
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  Improve Puppet module code quality by using unit and Litmus acceptance tests. Integrate Litmus tests into Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise.

  
  
  https://puppet.com/blog/integrate-litmus-acceptance-tests-into-cd-for-pe/
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  Utilising hashes in Hiera to reduce code complexity
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  Darren Gipson, a DevOps engineer at Willis Towers Watson, shares a cool trick for simplifying Puppet code with Hiera hashes.

  
  
  https://puppet.com/blog/utilising-hashes-in-hiera-to-reduce-code-complexity/
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  Puppet welcomes Abby Kearns as CTO
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  We’re excited to announce new leadership at Puppet. Please join us in welcoming Abby as our chief technology officer.

  
  
  https://puppet.com/blog/puppet-welcomes-abby-kearns-as-cto/
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  Puppet Camping in place: East meets West
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  A recap of the first virtual Puppet Camp by an experienced camper.

  
  
  https://puppet.com/blog/puppet-camping-in-place-east-meets-west/
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  Don’t let an ALL CAPS text ruin your weekend – part 1
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  Does making an application change on a Friday afternoon still give you chills? Use Puppet to automate your DevOps fears away.

  
  
  https://puppet.com/blog/dont-let-an-all-caps-text-ruin-your-weekend-part-1/