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This blog is not dead. It hasn’t seen any new content in a long while, which is a shame, but I did use the hiatus to recharge some creative energy. Here’s hoping progress will be more steady next year. Narrator voice It wasn’t more steady. In fact, this article was kept around as an unfinished draft throughout 2019, not to be published before Config Management Camp 2020. It still lacks diagrams that make the graph code understandable. [Read More]

Recently, I wrote a veritable deep-dive on mgmt’s new Puppet integration code, but didn’t include a good overview of how the new features look in practice. Here we go. The original interface If you recall, mgmt has no configuration language of its own. With its highly dynamic and distributed nature, it’s also not a good fit for the languages that established tools such as puppet and chef use. (Please note that Salt has no language either, and Ansible relies on a weird YAML hybrid). [Read More]

Have you heard of mgmt yet? It’s (currently) a prototype config management engine written by James and brings some exciting new ideas to the table, building on the proven concepts of Puppet. You should probably read up on it right now. James gave the inaugural demo at ConfigMgmtCamp 2016 in Gent, Belgium, and mentioned that he can picture a sort of “transpiler” that will create resource graphs from Puppet manifest code. [Read More]