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Downstream impact of pull requests

Accepting a pull request carries a certain amount of risk, especially if you have a lot of downstream users of your code. It’s not easy to…

Jun 12, 2020

Downstream impact of pull requests

Jun 12, 2020

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Writing a great README

Surprisingly enough, it’s not really that hard to write a good README. The key is to remember who you’re writing for and why. See, it’s…

Apr 27, 2020

Apr 27, 2020

Ben Ford

Impact Analysis of Puppet Modules

Have you ever wondered who’s using your Puppet modules? Or have you hesitated before changing a class parameter because you don’t really…

Apr 27, 2020

Impact Analysis of Puppet Modules

Apr 27, 2020

Ben Ford

Porting the whole world to a new API

If you maintain Puppet modules, you might have come across a little gift from me as you got back to coding after the holiday season. It’d…

Apr 27, 2020

Apr 27, 2020

Ben Ford

Automagic Puppet Function Updater

Last week I wrote about porting legacy Ruby Puppet functions to the modern API. It struck me how programatic the refactoring process was…

Jan 14, 2020

Jan 14, 2020

Ben Ford

Upgrade to Puppet 4.x functions already!

For many years, you’ve been able to extend the Puppet language by writing custom functions in Ruby. And since the functions were…

Jan 14, 2020

Jan 14, 2020

Ben Ford

Agent Side Functions in Puppet 6

Puppet 6 introduced Deferred functions, a new feature that allows you to run code on the agent side during enforcement.

Jan 14, 2020

Agent Side Functions in Puppet 6

Jan 14, 2020

Ben Ford

Ben Ford

Developer Advocate at @puppetize ; I get to build neat things -and- talk to people! *\o/* I run marathons in those funny finger shoes. http://pronoun.is/he

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