Puppet monitoring: how to monitor the success or failure of Puppet runs

Wednesday, February 20th, 2013

This post, written by LogicMonitor's Director of Tech Ops, Jesse Aukeman, originally appeared on HighScalability.com on February 19, 2013 If you are like us, you are running some type of linux configuration management tool. The value of centralized configuration and deployment is well known and hard to overstate. Puppet is our ...

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Simple ways to be confident in automated server and application deployments.

Monday, January 7th, 2013

Sample SAT question: xUnit is to Continuous Integration as what is to automated server deployments? We've been going through lots of growth here at LogicMonitor. Part of growth means firing up new servers to deal with more customers, but we also have been adding a variety of new services: proxies that allow our customers to route ...

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