Mark Burgess shipped CFEngine in 1993, formalized promise theory with Siri Fagernes around 2005, and published *In Search of Certainty* in 2015, but four generations of infrastructure tools—Chef, Pupp…
Perforce and the Puppet team outlined their approach to responsible use of AI in open source development, emphasizing that all contributions—whether human-written or AI-generated—are held to the same …
Luke Kanies, founder of Puppet, explained on Hacker News why he cannot build a suite of review apps on AT Protocol due to its architectural limitation of public-by-default data, which cannot handle pr…
GitHub announced general availability of managed Copilot settings deployment via MDM and file-based configuration for VS Code and CLI, enabling enterprise administrators to enforce governance policies…
Puppet has published guidance on remediating 18 OpenSSL vulnerabilities at scale using its infrastructure automation platform. The June 2026 advisory includes a high-severity heap use-after-free bug i…
Pulumi co-founder Paul Stack argues that infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools have historically failed to deliver on their promise of supporting "any system" because their provider ecosystems rely on hu…
Infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Kubernetes impose a "200% learning tax" by requiring users to master both the tool's abstraction and the underlying cloud API, with knowledge failing to…
Terraform, Chef, Puppet, and CFEngine users were never declaring state — they were manually observing their infrastructure and writing those observations into files for tools that could not see for th…