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Recently, I recorded a podcast with Luke Kanies and Abe Ingresoll (of Shopzilla) about Shopzilla’s use of Puppet for server configuration management. Abe walks us through the decision to start using Puppet and then the roll outs the initial did as they added new data-centers.
Also, in part two of this episode, Abe asks Luke for about upcoming features and gives Luke a wish-list of features: top among them integrating with asset management systems. Luke, of course, tells Abe (and us) about what we can expect to see along those lines in upcoming Puppet releases.
Also, if you were interested in this episode, be sure to check out the discussion of Google using Puppet to manage it’s desktops.
Disclosure: Reductive Labs is a client and sponsored this podcast.
A little while ago, I sat down with ZipTie’s Michael Nels and Ryan Kruse for a detailed demo of ZipTie, the open source network inventory and configuration management tool. That is, ZipTie scans all the devices on your network, figures out what they are, what’s running on them, and then gives you the ability to backup and change the network-oriented configuration for each device (it doesn’t dip into the application layer, for example, configuring Exchange).
As with most open source IT Management tools, things get interesting with the plugin, or extension layer where 3rd parties and individuals can come in add new features.
The demo is divided into two parts. Be sure to click the full-screen version if you’d like to see a larger version.
Michael gives us an overview of ZipTie, including it’s origin and how it ties into AlterPoint’s commercial product, NetworkAuthority. Ryan then jumps in to show us the initial discovery, admin setup, and poking around in the resulting inventory:
Ryan continues by showing us how to setup scheduled jobs (like nightly configuration backups), the table based topology, and the Michael and Ryan go over browsing and using extensions and how to get ZipTie:
Disclosure: AlterPoint is a client and sponsored this screencast.
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This week, John and I manage to balance out time between traditional IT Management and cloud talk. While we discuss IBM’s cloud announcements of earlier this week, we also talk about the idea of predictive analytics (from Tivoli, BMC, and others). Also, we talk about “virtual reality” (Second Life and friends) and how that might not be such a crock of…crock. For the fun-bunch out there, we give a short take on the IT Skeptic’s book, Real ITSM, which is well worth checking out.
Disclosure: IBM and BMC are clients, as is Sun. See the RedMonk client list for other clients mentioned.
Today’s debriefing (download directly here or subscribe to the feed for auto-downloads) goes over:
Also, thanks to John for pointing out the Debriefing podcasts: I’m glad he likes them ;)
Disclosure: Adobe, Splunk, Microsoft, IBM, BMC, and MindTouch are clients. See the RedMonk client list for other clients mentioned.
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