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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The Tortoise and not the Hare 2 - Principles -
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
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Puppet 0.25.2 "Zoe" released! Shipping the Zoe maintenance release with 123 tickets closed, including host alias changes, AIX cron support, and SELinux upper case contexts
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Photobooth James A photobooth portrait from the Photobooth Project where, for once, I do not look like shit in the picture
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The Tortoise and not the Hare - Part 1 Drawing parallels between manufacturing production lines and IT operations, and introducing Toyota Production System concepts like lean, JIT, and Kanban
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Puppet 0.25.2 Release Candidate 3 out! Asking the community to hammer on release candidate 3 with a few more bugs squashed, with a production release expected within days