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If I tell you, I'd have to kill you: Puppet in Federal Environments

In this podcast, Eric talks with Bryan Belanger from Fervid about working with Puppet in highly regulated compute environments. As a consultant for US Government agencies, Bryan's been working to get "Authority to Operate" for governmental cloud services, to speed up time to delivery and reduce compliance risk. The Puppet modules for STIG hardening, especially for Windows servers, let them build a baseline from existing systems and enforce that across the environment. We talk about the Forge, about Cloud, and about... Canada!

 

Windows hardening module: https://forge.puppet.com/autostructure/harden_windows_server

 

*Eric is a technical product manager at Puppet.*

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