Wondering what new #puppet module releases came out in January? Check out the details on the 4 new releases that are out!

- New cd4peadm out last week with the new CD release
- New PEADM with the new Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.8 and 2025.8
- WSUS client module gets new parameters to support configuring active hours
- Some minor maintenance cleanup with the zone_core module

https://dev.to/puppet/puppetlabs-modules-roundup-january-2026-2le8

New Puppet CD releases just dropped with Impact Analysis improvements, new fixes, and security updates!

👀 Quick reminder: CD 4.x reaches end‑of‑life on February 5, 2026. That’s next week!!! If you’re still on 4.x, now’s the time to plan your upgrade to CD 5.x.

Here’s what just landed in Puppet Continuous Delivery:

🔗 5.14.0 release notes → https://help.puppet.com/cdpe/current/Content/UserGuide/CDPE/ReleaseNotes/cd_release_notes.htm#Version5140

🔗 4.39.0 release notes → https://www.puppet.com/docs/continuous-delivery/4.x/cd_release_notes#cd_release_notes-version-4-39-0

#Puppet #InfrastructureAsCode #ContinuousDelivery

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"If you’ve ever glued together 12 curl calls, piped them through jq, and told yourself “This is fine”… This PEClient Ruby library might be just what you need."

A new article by Puppet Professional Services Engineer Zach Bensley just went live on the Puppet dev blog introducing the new Ruby client that he built for wrapping around Puppet APIs!

Take a look and try it out:

https://dev.to/puppet/peclientrb-the-puppet-api-ruby-client-library-31jb

#Puppet

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Hey #PDX #Puppet folk -- it's that time of the month again. Tomorrow is #LastWednesday at the Bye & Bye. I'll be there around 6pm, Sara and others might be there earlier!

#Puppet 4.6.0 (released in 2016) added support for a #Sensitive data-type:
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-specifications/blob/master/language/types_values_variables.md#sensitivet

For almost 10 years, I have periodically tried to wrap the secrets in my control-repo in this data type. But each time I faced issues and could never complete this task.

This week I tried again, and once again got disappointed. But for some reason I did not just postponed it like I have been doing for a decade, and tried to see what exactly was failing, and how it could be fixed.

1/4

First batch of short-lived certificates issued for my domains 🎉:
https://crt.sh/?id=23954996810

#Letsencryt recently announced general availability of 6 days certificates (160 hours to be exact):
https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability

I use apache's mod_md which has support for asking a specific profile to opt-in short-lived certificates, but the apache module I use with #OpenVox (previously #Puppet) was missing some parameters, so I opened this PR:
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apache/pull/2621

📢 Puppet Enterprise 2025.8 & 2023.8.8 are out! This quick follow-on from the December release provides some fixes for advanced patching and CVEs.

Read more about the release:
🔗 2025.8: https://help.puppet.com/pe/current/topics/release-notes-pe-x-8.htm
🔗 2023.8.7: https://help.puppet.com/pe/2023.8/topics/release-notes-pe-x-y-8.htm

#InfrastructureAsCode #Puppet

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You can now install Bolt 5.0.1 which brings a new plan_context function to get information about whether a plan is running in Bolt or Puppet Enterprise. Windows 11 and RHEL 10 support were also added!

You can see details on the changes in the official release notes for Bolt 5.0.1.

👉 https://help.puppet.com/bolt/current/topics/changelog.htm#Bolt50120260108

#Puppet #InfrastructureAsCode

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Do you have a bunch of playbooks that you want to reuse with your Puppet-managed infrastructure? In this video, Jason St-Cyr shows how to provision a new AWS load balancer using an Ansible Playbook running through Perforce Puppet! Make your tools play nice together!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_wHnSbzisQ

#Puppet #InfrastructureAsCode #Ansible #AWS

Happy New Year! With January here, it's time for another Puppetlabs Module Roundup for the new module releases on the Forge from December 2025!

Observability Data Connector and the Operations Dashboards got some important updates this month, along with updates for Security Compliance Management/Enforcement and more!

Check out the full roundup:

https://dev.to/puppet/puppetlabs-modules-roundup-december-2025-4e5h

Is one of your favourite #puppet modules not showing up in the roundups? What would you like to see?

Hey #PDX #Puppet folk! Just a heads up, #LastWednesday is on New Years Eve and I'm sure we all have better things to do. See you in January instead!

📢 Puppet Enterprise 2025.7 & 2023.8.7 are out! A little bit for everyone:

🤖 Code Assist for Puppet code, modules, tasks, and plans.
🔧 Real‑time patch alerts via Observability Data Connector.
⚡ Faster Infra Assistant setup & performance.
🖥️ RHEL 10 primary + agent ARM support.
🛡️ CVE fixes, UI improvements, and more!

Read more about the release: https://dev.to/puppet/puppet-enterprise-20257-delivers-code-assist-and-rhel-10-primary-support-and-new-scm-3f31

#InfrastructureAsCode #Puppet

In this demo, see how to use Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, and the Puppet MCP Server to generate an EdgeOps automation task for your network devices!

This video shows you how to setup your mcp.json file and then prompt for a task that configures NTP servers on a switch using your device's configuration info.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ckSGYMXC5o

#Puppet #InfrastructureAsCode #Network #NetworkAutomation

PDK 3.6.0 is Now Available! Validate against Puppet or OpenVox and get loads of security patches in this release!

🔐 CVEs addressed via upgrades to Curl, OpenSSL, net-imap, and removing libxslt and nokogiri

👩‍💻 Other changes:
💠 Thank you to user cocker-cc for adding support to the pdk validate command to accept either openvox or puppet!
💠 License Update to latest Puppet Core license
💠 Dependency changes with Bolt and Rubocop

🧐Check release notes:

https://help.puppet.com/pdk/current/topics/release_notes_pdk.htm#PDK360

#Puppet #IaC

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Windows Server 2025 support now out for Perforce Puppet SCE! SCE for Windows now enforces Center for Internet Security (CIS) controls on the Windows Server 2025 operating system. This supports CIS Microsoft Server 2025 Benchmark v1.0.0, Server Level 1.

💾 Download the latest SCE for Windows from the Forge: https://forge.puppet.com/modules/puppetlabs/sce_windows/readme

#Puppet #DevOps #Compliance #Security

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Got legacy Python hanging around? Trying to make the case to do an upgrade? Max Briggs is on the blog with the cost of sticking with those older versions. Updating can get you:

- Faster runtimes
- Lower memory use
- Reduced annual cloud spend

The article also has a how-to for manual and automated upgrades of your Python version.

https://www.puppet.com/blog/outdated-python-hidden-costs

#Puppet #Python

🔍 Puppetlabs Module Ecosystem: July–November Updates

A year-end round-up of puppetlabs module releases on the Forge is here!

Here are some highlights:
✅ Puppet 8 work in several modules

✅ Two new premium modules now available

✅ CI pipelines now cover broader OS/Puppet version matrices for better reliability.

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Is there a #puppet module update that is the most critical for your environment right now that isn't on this list?

Puppet now comes with an AI assistant, the Infra Assistant, and part of this is a new MCP endpoint that we use to enable developers in their IDE to generate better EdgeOps tasks.

If you are trying to figure out how to get the MCP Server enabled, we have a quick video to show the setting you need to turn on and what permissions to give users!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YWsB3s6rXg

#Puppet #MCP

Hey #PDX #Puppet folk! Tomorrow is #LastWednesday at the Bye and Bye if you'd like to come chat with some old friends. People should be there around 5:30 or 6

The release of Puppet Core 8.16.0 is now available! This release provides several security/library updates made to address known vulnerabilities.

🔐 Thor 1.4.0 (CVE-2025-54314)
🔐 Curl 8.16.0 (CVE-2025-0986, CVE 2025-10148)
🔐 REXML 3.4.2 (CVE-2025-58767)
🔐 OpenSSL 3.0.18 (CVE-2025-9230, CVE-2025-9232)
🔐 Patched URI gem in the Puppet agent (CVE-2025-61594)

Check full release notes: https://help.puppet.com/core/current/Content/PuppetCore/PuppetReleaseNotes/release_notes_puppet_x-8-16-0.htm

#DevOps #Puppet #IaC

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A new video is now out from Jason St-Cyr walking through how the new EdgeOps module works with NETCONF to help you automate against network devices!

Lots packed into this one:
- Overview of how the module works
- Code example for Creating a User
- Code example for setting NTP servers
- Code example for configuring a VLAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBH5uxN8o0Y

#Puppet #DevOps #InfrastructureAsCode

You can now install and configure #Anubis using #Puppet!

https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-anubis
https://forge.puppet.com/modules/puppet/anubis

Vote for the OpenVox logo!

https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/planning/discussions/78

OpenVox is the free software successor to Puppet. The @voxpupuli community has maintained Puppet packages since 2014, and soft-forked last year after Puppet Inc stopped publishing packages and maintaining the public repos.

#OpenVox #Puppet #VoxPupuli #logodesign

Are you or someone you know using legacy versions of Perforce Puppet Continuous Delivery (CD) 4.x and Comply/SCM 2.x? These are going to EOL on February 6th, 2026, so you should start planning that migration to the latest version today!

Details and links to migration docs in this article:

https://dev.to/puppet/reminder-eol-for-puppet-cd-4x-and-puppet-comply-2x-27h6

#Puppet

Hey, guess what? It’s the Last Wednesday #puppet #PDX alumni meetup at the Bye and Bye. I’ll be there a bit before 6pm!

chat, is saltstack still viable or is it dead, expired, ceased to be, bereft of life and killed by broadcom?

and if not saltstack, then what?

(i know puppet, chef and ansible well, and am looking for a recommendation about a configuration management tooling of near-production quality that preferably isn't one of the three above)

#SaltStack #Puppet #Chef #Ansible #ConfigurationManagement #CMS