Category: Puppet

Open sourcing Airbnb's Puppet module for Munki It’s probably no secret that we use Puppet to configure our macOS fleet at Airbnb. And whilst we have given several talks about how we use Puppet on macOS, there was still a...
Using Python in Puppet Facts There comes a time when writing Facts in Ruby just isn’t going to cut it - when you need to access Objective C frameworks, for example. Whilst Ruby can’t access these, Python...
Managing OS X Profiles with Puppet

There are many ways of managing configuration profiles on OS X - you can use MDM, Munki or any one of the other many great tools. My preferred method however is using Puppet....

MacAD.UK 2016: Puppet on OS X First off, thanks for coming (if you did indeed come - if you didn’t, you can go away). All of the code I used in my talk is up on Github, and you can grab the slides as well...
Redirecting Munki Downloads Munki 2.4.0 brought the option to have Munki follow http redirects (my first contribution to Munki). This allowed you to set Munki to follow redirects to either just HTTPS...
Releasing Changes With Sharding

Sharding is traditionally associated with databases - splitting up your dataset to make it more manageable. When using the term in this instance we are taking about splitting...

Running Puppet Server in Docker Part 3: Hiera

In the previous two parts, we went over how to get a basic Puppet Server up and running in Docker and how to deploy your modules using r10k. This time we’ll assign some...

Running Puppet Server in Docker Part 2: r10k

Last time we got our Puppet Server up and running - now we need to put some Puppet modules on it so we can use it.

To do that, we’re going to use r10k. It’s a tool...

Running Puppet Server in Docker

Back when I started using Puppet, configuring a Puppet Master could be pretty tricky as there were several moving parts (it was a Rack application, so needed to run behind...

Personal Automation (Part 1) Earlier this year, I professed my love of Boxen - the personal automation solution based on Puppet released by Github. Indeed, it served me well for quite some time, but I...