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July 21
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Recommended listening: Master of Puppet.

In this podcast Technometria’s Phil Windley talks to Luke Kanies, author of host config automation tool Puppet about separating instance and class when it comes to configuring hosts and their roles, expressing config as code to avoid a combinatorial explosion, treating it as code when it comes to testing and version control, and the power of a good DSL: expressing problems simply makes solving them trivial.