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Hi all It''s been a while since we introduced our professional services team to the community. They lurk on the list quite a bit and help answer questions and queries (their elite skills are also available for hire!). They are (in alphabetical order): Dan Bode (dan@puppetlabs.com) Hunter Haugen (hunter@puppetlabs.com) Cody Herriges (cody@puppetlabs.com) Garrett Honeycutt

Hi all After the success of last year''s Puppet Camp and Puppet Camp Europe we''re going to be running Puppet Camp again in the United States. The current dates are October 7th and 8th (Thursday and Friday) and the location will be San Francisco - currently TBD but downtown San Francisco. So mark your diary! Like previous Camps there will be a small cost to cover food and venue

Hi all Due to the late pull out of one of our potential speakers we have a speaking spot open for Puppet Camp in SFO (http://www.puppetlabs.com/community/puppet-camp/puppet-camp-sf-2010-info/). So this is your big chance to make your mark on the Puppet community and tell us about the cool thing you do or the quirky Puppet implementation you have. We''re looking for 45 minute talks

The Puppet Labs team has identified a security vulnerability in Puppet version 2.6.0 and later. The vulnerability allows, under certain circumstances, authenticated Puppet nodes to be able to view or manipulate resources on other Puppet 2.6.x nodes, including the Puppet Master. Versions prior to 2.6.0 are not vulnerable. Puppet Labs is releasing Puppet 2.6.4 to address this issue. Adding an

All too quickly we''re back with a maintenance release: 2.6.3. This release addresses some issues in the 2.6.2 release. 2.6.3 is a maintenance release in the 2.6.x branch and it contains only bug fixes and no new features or other changes. The release candidate is available for download at: http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-2.6.3rc1.tar.gz Please note that all final

For 40 days and 40 nights Facter wandered in the wilderness sustained only by the occasional patch and bottle of Kool-Aid. Slightly less tanned and equally happy Facter 1.5.8 has arrived! 1.5.8 is a feature and maintenance release containing a number of fixes, updates and additional tests. You can get the release at: http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/facter/facter-1.5.8.tar.gz Please log any

Hi all We''ve created a little module to help people interested in developing, testing or working on the Puppet source: http://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/DeveloperBootstrap This module installs everything someone needs on Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu or Solaris in order to develop or test Puppet source code. After that all you need to do it check-out the source and hack

Hi all Jeff McCune and I are going to be at the SoCAL DevOps meet-up tomorrow night: http://socaldevopsmeetup.eventbrite.com/ So if you''re in the area and want to chat about Puppet, configuration management or DevOps then come down. Or even if you''d just like to have a beer. :) Also of interest to LAX peoples is a Puppet Labs training being run Aug 17-19. The link is below

Puppet 2.7.15rc1 is a maintenance release candidate for Puppet in the 2.7.x series. Downloads are available at: * Source http://downloads.puppetlabs.com/puppet/puppet-2.7.15rc1.tar.gz RPMs are available at http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el or /fedora Debs are available at http://apt.puppetlabs.com Mac packages are available at http://downloads.puppetlabs.com/mac/puppet-2.7.15rc1.dmg See the

Welcome back again to the Puppet release cycle with the long-awaited eleventy times better RC2 release. The 2.6.0 release is a major feature release and includes a huge variety of new features, fixes, updates and enhancements. These include the complete cut-over from XMLRPC to the REST API, numerous language enhancements, a complete rewrite of the events and reporting system, an internal Ruby

----- Forwarded message from Nick Lewis <nick@puppetlabs.com> ----- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 21:59:10 -0800 From: Nick Lewis <nick@puppetlabs.com> To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com, puppet-dev@googlegroups.com Subject: [Puppet-dev] ANNOUNCE: Puppet 2.6.5 - Release Candidate 1 available! Message-ID: <AANLkTikjFwZ98P_NcxF54zHbU2mJf15XDrLg2cMp2GWT@mail.gmail.com> We''re back

Hi all We''re pleased to announce Zach Leslie has joined us as an Operations Engineer. Zach is going to be managing internal infrastructure and support as well as getting involved here and on IRC in helping people out with issues. Zach had this to say about himself: *** My professional geekery started as a sysadmin for a small start-up while I was studying open source and deciding to

Duration: 3months + Location: SFO; CA The primary skills are: * Over all Red Hat Linux system admin - Patches using our own patch center - Spinning up approved version of the Linux - Migration of Red Hat 4.0 to 5.0 release in all our environment - Network trouble shooting & Design (mainly for our qa and dev environment) - Backup setup and Strategies - General scripting skills using bash,

Puppet Labs is really thrilled to announce, in conjunction with EMC, our new open source bare metal provisioning tool: Razor. Razor is next generation provisioning software that handles bare metal hardware and virtual server provisioning with inventory discovery and tagging, rule-based policy management, and extensible broker plugin integration. It integrates closely with Puppet and Facter. The

Hi all We''ve just released version 0.3.4 of the puppet-module tool used to create and retrieve modules from the Puppet Labs Forge (http://forge.puppetlabs.com). You can update using Ruby gems: $ gem install puppet-module There are several important changes in this release: * Add ability to install modules with hyphens * Add check for symlink when installing * Install modules to their

So some of you may be aware that Tim Sharpe from GitHub wrote a Puppet linting tool: $ gem install puppet-lint $ puppet-lint mymanifest.pp Source: https://github.com/rodjek/puppet-lint The linting tool checks Puppet code for "best practice" based on the Puppet Labs Style Guide: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/style_guide.html A lot of us have been using puppet-lint (and puppet

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all There is some discussion of doing a 0.23.3 release to backport a number of bugs fixes from 0.24.0. What do people think of this idea? Would you prefer a dot upgrade to 0.23.3 or are most planning to upgrade cleanly to 0.24.x? I understand from Luke that 0.24.1 will be released shortly and that 0.23.2 clients should cleanly connect and

We''re back with a maintenance release: 2.6.5. This release addresses a number of bugs in the 2.6.x branch. 2.6.5 is a maintenance release in the 2.6.x branch and it contains only bug fixes, documentation updates and a small handful of features. The first release candidate is available for download at: http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-2.6.5-rc1.tar.gz We''re

Hi all We''ve just finished enabling ticket creation and updates via email. You can now send an email to tickets@puppetlabs.com to create a ticket. You must have a Redmine account to do this and your From address must match the address on your Redmine account. Any attachments added to the email will be applied to the ticket. By default, issues are added to the Puppet project but you

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Puppet 0.24.8 is now available! This is a maintenance release for the 0.24.x branch but contains a small number of new features including some significant performance enhancements for large installations and stored configurations. The tarball is available at: http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-0.24.8.tgz MD5 hash: