Jeff McCune and I are really pleased to announce that Pro Puppet has been released and is now shipping! We know a lot of you have been waiting a while for the book and we appreciate your patience. We hope you enjoy the book and please let us know about any Errata or issues as they appear. P.S. It has an Index - pages 293 to 318. A real Index. :)

Some photos from Amsterdam prior to Puppet Camp.

So our new Puppet 2.7.0 (or Statler) release went out last night into the big wide world as a release candidate. It’s got some pretty cool features in it and a bunch of bug fixes. Some of the new features are just awesome: Apache 2.0 license Puppet Face (inter-face!) to the API to make building Puppet command line tools easy Deterministic ordering Ruby 1.9 support Better dependency cycle reporting But one that I am really excited about is our first stab at network device management with Puppet.

So the last chapter of Pro Puppet went to the publishers earlier this week. I just finished up the Introduction a few minutes ago and shot that off to our editor. Jeff and I are pretty excited about how it has turned out (barring it took us a long time to get done - we’re sorry! - because life and work kept getting in the way). The book looks to be published this month probably at the end of the month or at the very start of May.

I’ve just released Puppet-RunDeck version 0.0.4. The major change is that it adds support for outputting tags together with the other available output, for example: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE project PUBLIC "-//DTO Labs Inc.//DTD Resources Document 1.0//EN" "project.dtd"> <project> <node name="web.example.com" type="Node" description="web.example.com" osArch="Linux" osFamily="Linux" osName="Fedora" osVersion="14" tags="settings,web.example.com,sudo,node,class" username="root" hostname="web.example.com" /> </project> You can install the update by updating the gem: $ sudo gem install puppet-rundeck