Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Kochiku
We haven't tracked posts mentioning Kochiku yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
Puppet
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Updating modules to Puppet 8
The Puppet 8 compatibility guide detailed the major changes we had to be aware of and we found it invaluable the effort. It's probably worth bookmarking that page until you're done with the upgrade.
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What do you use ruby for?
I will happily direct your attention here: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet
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Faster module tests with Facter 4 and rspec-puppet
We started by decoupling Puppet from Facter as much as we could, introducing the possibility of having multiple Facter backends. While Puppet would use the default Facter implementation when running on its own, external users would be able to define and pass their own Facter implementation when initializing Puppet, similar to how puppetserver configures Puppet to use its JRuby-compliant HTTP client.
What are some alternatives?
Centurion - A mass deployment tool for Docker fleets
Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.
Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Logs - Mountable Rails Engine for viewing paginated logs from a browser
BOSH - Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Einhorn
Chef - Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Mina - Blazing fast deployer and server automation tool
Capistrano - A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH.
PuPHPet - Vagrant/Puppet GUI