Web giants like Google and Amazon have long used software that automatically configures the vast collection of machines driving their online services. But these tools were never available to the ...

“What should I use – Puppet or Chef?” This is a common question in the mind of every developer dealing with configuration management space. While both of them are almost similar, there are some key ...

Which configuration manatement tool is more popular: Puppet or Chef? RedMonk analyst Stephen O’Grady recently did some Web mining to find out. O’Grady’s not sure. I’m betting that Puppet has more ...

Chef and Puppet are, for many, synonymous with the concept of automating the development and operational deployment (DevOps) of applications. The two products are the most popular in the space, have ...

For the last few years, the game plan around the office was simple. The CEO would say “faster” and the CTO would say “cloud.” Everyone would nod and say, “Of course.” All good things come to an end.

DockerCon sailed through Seattle recently, leaving behind in its wake a new swath of rapid adopters plus a trail of related company and product announcements. Docker itself produced perhaps the most ...

I've been mucking around with Proxmox lately and its currently running my home "lab" VMs. However, I was wanting to poke around with puppet, ansible, vagrant, chef, salt... etc. and trying to figure ...