After several decades of use, should we consider open source software (OSS) a business model? In short: No! In this conversation, open source evangelist Javier Perez welcomes technology evangelist and CNCF ambassador Dotan Horovits to provide context for the biggest changes happening in OSS, discuss what a sustainable future looks like for open source, and explain what to do when companies choose to go not-so-open with their source code.

2024 is shaping up to be the biggest year on record for software vulnerabilities identified. How are security, compliance, and ops teams supposed to respond? We talked with the CISO of the Center for Internet Security about exactly that.

On this episode of the Puppet podcast, Ben Ford and Saurabh Karwa reveal a few of the exciting changes that are going to make the Forge even easier and more valuable for all Puppet users, like personalization, filters, and features to track module versions and updates against your Puppet file.

The 2024 State of DevOps Report: The Evolution of Platform Engineering is live! In this episode, we’re taking you behind the scenes with the authors of the report and one of the people who helped run the survey.

Platform engineering is all about giving devs the tools they need to work independently. Work-from-home policies give people flexibility in where and how they work. It should be a match made in heaven, right? Well... it’s more complicated than that.

Politics is everywhere in your organization. No, not THAT kind of politics – the kind that happens when you need something and can’t get it, or when you get good at something and people start noticing. Politics happens just about whenever decisions get made. Joshua Zimmerman says that kind of politics is rooted in people, and with the right mindset, you can use politics to make things better in your organization – for you and your entire team.

Great things – tools, spaces, companies, brands – are supported by great communities. The Vox Pupuli are perhaps the most prominent, active group in the Puppet community. Here’s what they're up to lately, what it’s like being one of them, and what Puppet (the community) means to Puppet (the company).

Open source has always moved fast. Today, it moves faster than ever, driven by both community demand and corporate interest. On this episode, Perforce’s Javier Perez and OSI’s Stefano Maffulli discuss the impact of recent license changes and the historical push-and-pull between consumers and providers in the world of open source.

With David Sandilands, Gradle Field CTO Justin Reock shares his perspective on developer productivity engineering – the point where right-brain creativity, left-brain productivity, and ‘joyful activity’ intersect to create what's broadly called the ‘developer experience – and where platform engineering is headed with and without it.

In 2023, David Sandilands published Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers. This is how he got there, beginning with the unsolicited LinkedIn message that started it all. On this episode of the podcast, hear from David Sandilands himself on creating to the leading word on using Puppet 8 for DevOps.

So your organization failed a compliance audit. Bummer! But just fixing-and-forgetting doesn’t work anymore. Hear from two compliance experts on why organizations like yours always find themselves in this position, why siloes are at the heart of the problem, and how you can start getting departments to cooperate on compliance.

Modules are the basic building blocks of Puppet. They're made to solve common challenges, extend functionality, and optimize your use of Puppet. They're also reusable and shareable – you can find thousands on the Puppet Forge – and best of all, anyone can make them. But what does that really mean? On this episode of Pulling the Strings, Ben Ford sits down with Yeshua Hall to talk about Yeshua’s experience building the Puppet module known as zend_common, initially released in December 2022.

Supposedly, Albert Einstein once said, “If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, then you don't understand it yourself.” That might be a bit harsh, but it holds true for teaching just about anything: You’ve got to meet learners where they are. That’s why Puppet recently launched new on-demand training courses and more. There’s a new, engaging way to learn how to do things with Puppet without going down too many rabbit holes.

“It doesn't matter how small the contribution is – I think everyone benefits from the different environment, the different culture, of open source communities.” From ‘free software’ to the Mars Rover, the scope of open source is expansive, growing, and offering new challenges to organizations and practitioners alike. Now, Perforce Director of Product Management Javier Perez is excited to share the latest findings from the 2023 State of Open Source Report with the context of his 26+ years in the software industry. Look into the past and peer into the future with this exciting discussion between two open source evangelists.

In this episode, join special guests Nigel Kersten, KasparvonGrünberg, Fatih Degirmenci, and Ronan Keenan as they discuss the recent surge in popularity of platform engineering and how these teams are fast becoming vital to enterprise success.

Employee resource groups can be powerful agents for change. Hear how Puppet's ERGs advocate for equity and provide community for their members.

Bootstrapping a configuration management platform like Puppet Enterprise is challenging. Edwin from Puppet’s Solutions Architects team shows us a tool aiming to simplify that task.

Paul Reed joins us to show how to evaluate your post-EOL options for CentOS 8 options and make the migration process easier with a few simple Puppet Tasks.

Cortez worked his way up through the ranks as a cloud security and compliance engineer, managing hundreds of production applications. Now he's taking those grueling lessons and teaching the team at Relay how to automate away tedium and toil.

Practice today for your security response tomorrow. Learn how to safely deploy configuration updates and quickly orchestrate remediation scripts across your infrastructure