Category: Puppet
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Puppetlabs Modules Roundup – July to November 2025
Originally posted 2025-12-08 at: https://dev.to/puppet/puppetlabs-modules-roundup-july-to-november-2025-4m02 Welcome to the first edition of the Puppetlabs Modules Roundup! Usually, the product lines like Puppet Core and Puppet Enterprise get all the attention in the release notes, but this series is all about keeping you in the loop on what’s new and updated in the…
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Tutorial: Packaging Operations Runbooks with Puppet Edge Workflows
Originally posted 2025-11-20 at: https://www.puppet.com/blog/puppet-edge-workflows-automation Puppet Edge Workflows, available with Puppet Enterprise Advanced, provide the orchestration tools to define multistep workflows to run against your infrastructure. This allows Puppet experts to create workflows that Ops teams can run without having deep Puppet language knowledge or the underlying infrastructure. The goal with…
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Ubuntu 24.04 and better license troubleshooting in Puppet Continuous Delivery 5.13.0
First published on 2025-11-20 at: https://dev.to/puppet/ubuntu-2404-and-better-license-troubleshooting-in-puppet-continuous-delivery-5130-2bc5 This new release of Puppet Continuous Delivery (CD4PE) has some great updates, especially if you are trying to install on Ubuntu 24.04. What’s new: Ubuntu 24.04 Support You can now install Continuous Delivery on Ubuntu 24.04, giving teams more flexibility in their operating system choices. Note: Installation on…
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Puppet Core 8.16.0 Released with Several Security Updates
First published on 2025-11-19 at: https://dev.to/puppet/puppet-core-8160-released-with-several-security-updates-179b If you like patching vulnerabilities, the new Puppet Core 8.16.0 release is right up your alley! This update is all about strengthening your infrastructure’s security, with several important library upgrades and vulnerability patches. What’s Included? Here are the new versions of dependencies that have been released…
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Reminder: EOL for Puppet CD 4.x and Puppet Comply 2.x
Originally posted 2025-11-06 at: https://dev.to/puppet/reminder-eol-for-puppet-cd-4x-and-puppet-comply-2x-27h6 This is a reminder of the End of Life (EOL) notice that was published on August 5, 2025 for legacy product versions of Continuous Delivery (CD) and Comply (a.k.a. SCM). The EOL becomes effective February 5, 2026. This EOL affects the following product versions: What does this mean…
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Tutorial: Running Ansible Playbooks from Puppet
Originally posted 2025-10-30 at: https://www.puppet.com/blog/run-ansible-playbooks-with-puppet-edge-playbook-runner When thinking about imperative infrastructure commands and Day 0 tasks for provisioning infrastructure, Ansible is an oft-mentioned tool that has been popular among practitioners for its easy YAML syntax and agentless architecture. You might have used Ansible to get your infrastructure started or for other…
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Build Tasks for Network Devices Faster with Code Assistance and Puppet Edge
Originally posted 2025-10-23 at: https://www.puppet.com/blog/puppet-edge-code-assist Whether you are an all-in vibe coder or AI skeptic, you probably know that most software developers are now incorporating AI into their day-to-day process. Google Cloud’s 2025 DORA report saw “the majority of survey respondents (90%) use AI as part of their work.” The 2025 StackOverflow Developer…
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Automating Network Devices with NETCONF and YANG in Puppet Edge
Originally posted 2025-10-16 at: https://www.puppet.com/blog/puppet-edge-netconf-yang-automation Infrastructure teams manage not only servers and cloud resources, but also complex network environments. Routers, switches, and firewalls…often from multiple vendors with many models and versions. The devices require a consistent configuration and strict compliance enforcement to meet enterprise requirements. Historically, network management has been…
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Expanding Your Infrastructure Automation Across the Lifecycle Using Puppet Edge
Originally posted 2025-10-13 at: https://www.puppet.com/blog/infrastructure-automation-lifecycle-edge-management Infrastructure automation is evolving… and so is Puppet! While Puppet has long been known for its strength in Day 2 operations through agent-based desired state configuration, Puppet also extends across Day 0 and Day 1 tasks. With Puppet Edge, you can target network devices alongside…
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Introducing Puppet Edge and new Puppet Enterprise releases!
Originally posted 2025-09-24 at: https://dev.to/puppet/introducing-puppet-edge-and-new-puppet-enterprise-releases-1ejf A New Way to Manage Network and Edge Devices Edge environments are expanding rapidly, yet most organizations lack visibility and control over these devices. Nearly half of network outages are caused by configuration errors, and traditional agent-based approaches aren’t practical for many edge or network…
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Puppet Continuous Delivery: New Releases!
First published on 2025-08-28 at: https://dev.to/puppet/puppet-continuous-delivery-new-releases-14na We’re excited to announce that Puppet Continuous Delivery v5.11.0 and v4.37.0 are now available! What’s in Puppet CD 5.11.0 Note that the above list is for the 5.11.0 release specifically. The 4.37.0 release contains a subset of these additions/fixes. For full release notes, visit…
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Tutorial: How to Remediate Vulnerabilities with Puppet Enterprise Advanced Patching
This blog first appeared on 2025-08-07 at puppet.com: https://www.puppet.com/blog/vulnerability-remediation-puppet-advanced-patching The rate at which vulnerabilities are being exploited is on the rise. The VulnCheck company, which specializes in vulnerability intelligence, found that in Q1 2025, 28.3% of vulnerabilities were exploited within 1 day of CVE disclosure. Keeping your systems up to date is…
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Puppet Enterprise: New Releases and a New Product Lifecycle
This post originally appeared on 2025-08-06 at dev.to: https://dev.to/puppet/puppet-enterprise-new-releases-and-a-new-product-lifecycle-4knn Lots of news in the Puppet Enterprise world this week! There are new releases of Puppet Enterprise (PE) 2023.8.5 and 2025.5 (PE and PE Advanced), big changes to the Puppet Enterprise Lifecycle, and a new EOL announced for Comply 2.x. Let’s…
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Developing Modules for Puppet and the Forge in 2025
This blog first appeared on 2025-07-03 at puppet.com: https://www.puppet.com/blog/puppet-module-developer-eula-faq Since announcing changes to our OSS plans as well as introducing the new licensing starting with PDK 3.5.0, the team has received questions from the community around how the changes will affect them. In this article, we’ll highlight some helpful resources about how you…
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Tutorial: Visualize Your Puppet Data in Grafana with the Observability Data Connector
This article was originally published on 2025-07-24 on puppet.com: https://www.puppet.com/blog/tutorial-puppet-grafana-observability When you manage complex IT infrastructure, it becomes critical to use tooling to understand what’s happening across all of your systems in terms of performance, reliability, and compliance. Monitoring key indicators manually is simply no longer possible at that scale. Puppet…
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Puppet Security Compliance Management (SCM) 3.5.0 and Puppet Comply 2.25.0 are now available!
Originally appeared July 14th on dev.to: https://dev.to/puppet/puppet-security-compliance-management-scm-350-and-puppet-comply-2250-are-now-available-3n23 What’s new? Flexible Java management The Comply module now includes the option to use a locally installed Java runtime, instead of the Java bundled with the CIS-CAT Pro Assessor. This enhancement is ideal for customers with specific Java version requirements or those looking…
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Welcome the Puppet Infra Assistant to the Team!
This article was originally published on 2025-06-26 on dev.to: https://dev.to/puppet/welcome-the-puppet-infra-assistant-to-the-team-1902 Your Job isn’t Easy It’s Friday afternoon and you just want to hit the weekend, but another compliance audit request just came in. Oh joy! Responding quickly to these “fire drill” requests is getting harder. Infrastructure isn’t just growing –…
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Security Compliance Enforcement (SCE) Version 2.4.0 for Linux is now Available!
✨New in this release: You can now use SCE to enforce DISA STIG controls on RHEL 9 systems. This extends the existing support for STIG compliance on RHEL 7 and 8, helping organizations meet stringent security requirements. Developed by the US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the Security Technical Implementation…
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PDK 3.5.0 is Now Available!
The latest release of the Puppet Development Kit (PDK 3.5.0) is now available through Puppet Core and the Developer EULA! PDK Joins Puppet Core Puppet Core is a hardened, enterprise-ready platform built on Open Source Puppet. It offers organisations the power of the Puppet ecosystem with added benefits, such as…
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Puppet Core v8.13.0 Release Announcement
The Perforce Puppet team is excited to announce the release of Puppet Core v8.13.0! This release includes several important updates and fixes to improve stability, security, and compatibility. New in v8.13.0 ℹ️Full 8.13.0 Release Notes You can access the full release notes for version 8.13.0 at help.puppet.com
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