Walking through a Puppet type and ParsedFile provider that manages entries in /etc/shells using the built-in parsing helpers
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Help Vampires: A Spotterâs Guide Pointer to a Slash7 article on how to spot help vampires in your community, how to handle them, and how to protect the community
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Creating Puppet types and providers is easy... A worked example showing how to write a simple Puppet type and providers for managing Git and Subversion repository checkouts
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Puppet 0.25.4 released! Shipping a fast maintenance release that adds prerun and postrun transaction hooks and fixes a regression breaking cron job creation
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The Tortoise and not the Hare 2 - Principles Listing the seven Toyota Production System principles that map most directly to IT operations and previewing how to apply each one
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Puppet, Chef, deterministic ordering and the much maligned DSL Reposting Teyo Tyree's full comment on Puppet versus Chef explaining dependency graphs against procedural ordering and the value of an external DSL
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Puppet 0.25.3 - "Clifford" released! Releasing the Clifford maintenance build to address a regression in 0.25.2 that broke command execution, along with cron and mount bug fixes