Pulling the Strings

Pulling the Strings is your guide to everything DevOps, from unpacking breaking trends to sharing helpful how-tos that make your life easier. In quick, casual conversations, Puppet engineers, open source community members, and global DevOps luminaries cover what you never knew you needed to know about DevOps. Whether it’s unpacking the latest tooling to sharing tips for getting buy-in from your team, Pulling the Strings is built for the DevOps devotees in all of us.

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It's Always Audit Time: Compliance is Coming for Your Department (Yes, Yours)

The days of slapping together compliant configurations are over. Continuous compliance needs a cooperative approach. On this episode of Pulling the Strings, hear what compliance pros recommend and why ‘cowboy compliance’ just won’t cut it anymore.

What It’s Actually Like to Build a Puppet Module

On this episode of Pulling the Strings, Ben Ford sits down with Yeshua Hall to talk about Yeshua’s experience building the Puppet module known as zend_common.

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“How Long is a Piece of String?”: All the Ways New Puppet Training Simplifies Complexity

On this episode of Pulling the Strings, Ben Ford interviews Principal Training Solutions Engineers Jain Waldrip and Tom Chisholm about designing training with “highly calibrated visuals,” the exciting new avenues for Puppet learners, and much more.

Diving Into the 2023 State of Open Source Report with Javier Perez

Perforce Director of Product Management Javier Perez shares findings from the 2023 State of Open Source Report on this episode of Pulling the Strings.

The Future of Platform Engineering

In this episode, join special guests Nigel Kersten, Kaspar von Grünberg, Fatih Degirmenci, and Ronan Keenan as they discuss the recent surge in popularity of platform engineering and how these teams are fast becoming vital to enterprise success.

Creating Community with an Employee Resource Group (ERG)

Season 4 — Episode 9

Employee resource groups can be powerful agents for change. Hear how Puppet's ERGs advocate for equity and provide community for their members.

Managing Your Configuration Management System Shouldn't Be Hard

Season 4 — Episode 8

Bootstrapping a configuration management platform like Puppet Enterprise is challenging. Edwin from Puppet’s Solutions Architects team shows us a tool aiming to simplify that task.

CentOS 8 is EOL, So Now What?

Season 4 — Episode 7

Paul Reed joins us to show how to evaluate your post-EOL options for CentOS 8 options and make the migration process easier with a few simple Puppet Tasks.

Automating Your Way to Compliance Across Your Entire Cloud Infrastructure

Season 4 — Episode 6

Cortez worked his way up through the ranks as a cloud security and compliance engineer, managing hundreds of production applications. Now he's taking those grueling lessons and teaching the team at Relay how to automate.

In the Wake of Log4j, Here's How to Prepare for Your Next Security Threat

Season 4 — Episode 5

Practice today for your security response tomorrow. Learn how to safely deploy configuration updates and quickly orchestrate remediation scripts across your infrastructure.

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