- May meeting on Monday, May 1, 2017 at Red Hat Annex in downtown Raleigh, NC
- June meeting on Monday June 5, 2017 at Arista Networks in Cary, NC
- Puppet Enterprise 2017.1.1 Released, strings 1.1.0 Released, Puppet Agent 1.9.3 available, PuppetDB 4.3.2 available
- Since the Foreman in an opensource project, we can see that the Foreman devs expect, Foreman 1.15.0 release should occur about the middle of April.
- The puppet software is also opensource and according to Puppet's Jira board, we can see that Puppet 4.10.0 should be released soon, and they are making progres on Puppet 5.0.0.
- Puppet.com Blog updates:
- PuppetConf 2017 call for proposals is open and closes by April 23.
- Magic directories: a guide to Puppet directory structure - covers directory-concepts like "Base paths, Configurable paths, Environments, Module structure"
- Preventative maintenance for PuppetDB: node-purge-ttl
- Puppet tips from Example42 blog:
- By way of Example42, PSICK - Puppet Systems Infrastructure Construction Kit. A Puppet control-repo generator on steroids, featuring:
- "A modern, opinionated, general purpose, full featured, reusable control-repo"
- "Multiple ways to test local Puppet code (on Docker, Vagrant or directly remote hosts)"
- "Gitlab CI pipeline to control Puppet code deployment"
- "Usable in any Puppet setup, based on Puppet OSS, PE, Foreman..."
- "Ready to use profiles for system baselines and common applications"
- "Toolset to create and maintain a new control-repo based on PSICK (WIP)"
- Tangentially and loosely related to puppet, from MCollective creator R.I. Pienaar's blog and mailing list Devco.net:
- "I wrote about a major new MCollective feature I built called Federations of Collectives and also about some internals. I wrote a piece on the NATS.io blog about how and why I use NATS in Choria (there's a webinar coming soon April 26). There's also a bit on the DZone about Federation."