Puppet updates its flagship product with increased support for Bolt, an open-source task automator
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(Puppet Photo)Puppet’s latest edition of its flagship infrastructure automation software includes additional support for Bolt, an open-source project that the company believes makes it easier for customers to move into the automation era. EARLIER: Puppet makes a change at the top with new CEO Yvonne Wassenaar “It shouldn’t be the vendor’s choice to say, you have to implement automation in this way using this language and using this particular technology direction,” said new Puppet head of product Matt Waxman, in an interview with GeekWire. Some applications use agents, small bits of software that report back to a central server, to monitor performance and security, while others use an “agentless” structure more common in cloud computing deployments that monitor those developments through an API (application programing interface). Individual operations engineers can use Bolt to help them automate server and network configuration tasks, but as a company scales they need some of the additional bells and whistles available in Puppet Enterprise, Waxman said. In addition, the new version of Bolt and Puppet Enterprise allows users to employ their YAML skills to automate infrastructure maintenance tasks, Waxman said.
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