Pulling the Strings
Pulling the Strings
Puppet
Pulling the Strings is your guide to everything DevOps, from unpacking breaking trends to sharing helpful how-tos that make your life easier. In quick, casual conversations, Puppet engineers, open source community members, and global DevOps luminaries cover what you never knew you needed to know about DevOps. Whether it’s unpacking the latest tooling to sharing tips for getting buy-in from your team, Pulling the Strings is built for the DevOps devotees in all of us.
Open Source: “More than a License” but Not Quite a Business Model with Dotan Horovits
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.
Jul 26, 2024
35 min
When Will IT Security Escape the Cat-and-Mouse Game? with Sean Atkinson, CISO of CIS
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.
May 16, 2024
34 min
The Future of the Forge: Unpacking the Big (and Small) Changes
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.
May 7, 2024
41 min
We Surveyed ~500 People Doing Platform Engineering. Here’s What We Learned.
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.
Apr 3, 2024
40 min
Your Return-to-Office Plans Will Shape Your Platform. Here’s How.
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.
Nov 21, 2023
28 min
The Politics of Your Job: Building Trust + Subverting  DevOps Hierarchies (Respectfully) with Joshua  Zimmerman
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.
Oct 17, 2023
33 min
Who the Vox Pupuli Are and How They Work with Puppet
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).
Sep 27, 2023
35 min
What CentOS, RHEL, and HashiCorp’s BSL Mean for the Future of Open Source
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.
Sep 5, 2023
43 min
The Platform Engineering Pitfall You Aren’t Looking For (Yet)
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.
Aug 3, 2023
36 min
“Write a Book About Puppet 8,” They Said. “It’ll Be Fun,” They Said.
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.
Jul 28, 2023
27 min
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