IAC & DevX Updates; farewell Danny

Community Contributions

We’d like to thank the following people in the Puppet Community for their contributions over this past week:

• puppetlabs-apache#2195: “Allow docroot with mod_vhost_alias virtual_docroot”, thanks to yakatz
• puppetlabs-apache#2191: “add double quote on scope parameter”, thanks to aba-rechsteiner
• puppetlabs-apt#1007: “(MODULES-11173) Add per-host overrides for apt::proxy”, thanks to maturnbull
• puppetlabs-chocolatey#269: “add support for version range”, thanks to rico89
• puppetlabs-docker#774: “Prefer timeout to time_limit for Facter::Core::Execution”, thanks to smortex
• puppetlabs-firewall#1019: “Bugfix MODULES-11203: error on second apply when uid or gid is specified as a range”, thanks to cmd-ntrf
• puppetlabs-java#488: “Enabling Rocky Linux for Install”, thanks to pmjensen
• puppetlabs-java_ks#378: “Fix “password” as Property”, thanks to cocker-cc
• puppetlabs-postgresql#1307: “Drop further code for Debian 6 and Ubuntu 10”, thanks to ekohl
• puppetlabs-postgresql#1306: “MODULES-11201: add service_name for Ubuntu 18.04 and later”, thanks to moritz-makandra
• puppetlabs-postgresql#1299: “Inline file contents in the catalog”, thanks to ekohl
• puppetlabs-postgresql#1296: “Fix changing default encoding”, thanks to smortex
• puppetlabs-postgresql#1279: “Use Puppet-Datatype Sensitive for Passwords”, thanks to cocker-cc
• puppetlabs-stdlib#1213: “stdlib::ensure: Add support for package resource”, thanks to david-caro and the following people who helped get it over the line (b4ldr)
• puppetlabs-stdlib#1195: “(MODULES-11126) Replacing URI.escape with URI::DEFAULT_PARSER”, thanks to valleedelisle and the following people who helped get it over the line (karelyatin, b4ldr)
• facterdb#189: “Release 1.10.0”, thanks to bastelfreak
• facterdb#188: “Ubuntu 18.04/20.04, RedHat 8: Update factsets”, thanks to bastelfreak
• rspec-puppet-facts#134: “Release 2.0.3”, thanks to bastelfreak
• rspec-puppet-facts#133: “regenerate puppet_agent_components.json”, thanks to bastelfreak
• iac#315: “Bump jekyll from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1”, thanks to [dependabot[bot]][dependabot[bot]]
• puppet-module-gems#167: “(maint) Fix pry dependency issue.”, thanks to BobosilaVictor
• puppet_litmus#427: “Allow Litmus Functions to accept a target”, thanks to RandomNoun7

Check all the ways to reach us if you want to directly contact us about anything module related.

New Module / Gem Releases

The following modules were released this week:

• puppetlabs-stdlib (8.1.0)
• puppetlabs-apt (8.3.0)
• puppetlabs-docker (4.1.2)
• puppetlabs-java (7.2.0)
• puppetlabs-postgresql (7.5.0)

Puppet Module Major Releases

Looking into the future, we only have a single major release planned, this being Apache v7.0.0. So if you use this module you should get ready for this to come on our next community day.

Farewell Danny

Finally, we have to end on a sad note 😢

This will be Danny’s last week on the IAC Team. Daniel was a founding member of the IAC team and has shown great professionalism, focus and drive, to help deliver true value to our customers and community.

Some of the major stand outs from Danny’s time on the IAC Team (and in Puppet), are the Cloud CI and Automated Release Tooling, which are invaluable, integral parts of the IAC Team’s process. Danny also lent his expertise to the Forge team, helping to design and implement functionality to facilitate the introduction of premium content.

We were very fortunate to have Danny’s considerable breadth of knowledge in Cloud technologies - he’s been instrumental in maintaining and enhancing the Docker and Kubernetes modules.

He has been a fantastic colleague, mentor and friend to us all. From all of us on the IAC team - the very best of luck for the future, and thanks for all you’ve done for us. 🍺 🚀