So you probably thought the Dashboard didn’t love you anymore … that we’d forgotten about you and we’re very sorry for that. But we’re trying to make up for it … starting with the Puppet Dashboard 1.0.1 release. The 1.0.1 release is a maintenance release that fixes a lot of the outstanding bugs and issues with the 1.0 release. We’re planning a 1.1 release in the near future that will add additional features (you can see the Roadmap here) http://puppetlabs.

Okay Puppeteers …. we’re off and running again with 2.6.0rc3. We’re hoping this is the last RC - so please get testing. 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, basic Windows support, numerous language enhancements, a complete rewrite of the events and reporting system, an internal Ruby DSL, a single binary, a new HTTP report processor, and a myriad of other enhancements.

Okay Puppeteers …. more testing needed - we’re almost to release with 2.6.0RC2 release being minted. 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, basic Windows support, numerous language enhancements, a complete rewrite of the events and reporting system, an internal Ruby DSL, a single binary, a new HTTP report processor, and a myriad of other enhancements.

Okay Puppeteers …. please get testing the new and much anticipated 2.6.0 release of Puppet. 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, basic Windows support, numerous language enhancements, a complete rewrite of the events and reporting system, an internal Ruby DSL, a single binary, a new HTTP report processor, and a myriad of other enhancements.

I’m running a beginner’s introduction to Puppet at OSCON 2010 and attendees need to do some basic set-up prior to the tutorial. 1. We’ll be using a CentOS 5.4 image as the basis for the tutorial - you can download it from here. If you don’t want to download the image you can create your own by installing CentOS 5.4 and adding the EPEL repository. 2. You can run it in VMWare Player, VMWare Fusion, etc (or VirtualBox - for VirtualBox you need to use the Virtual Media Manager to add the vmdk file and then create a new VirtualBox machine using that drive image.