Podcast: Google Compute Engine and Puppet

In the latest Puppet Podcast, Puppet Community Lead Dawn Foster is joined by Eric Johnson, program manager of the Google Compute Engine team and Aaron Armstrong, an engineering manager at Puppet Labs.

Last Tuesday, Google announced that its Google Compute Engine is now generally available to the public. Listen in to this podcast to hear Eric, Aaron and Dawn discuss and explore the integrations between Google Cloud Platform and Puppet.

GCP is a collection of services created using Google's experience scaling and supporting their own services: platform-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service options, storage solutions and a range of other services and developer tools.

In Puppet Enterprise 3.1, we updated our cloud provisioner to work natively with Google Compute Engine, and there's now a node type for GCE. Watch the video below to see how you can spin up and interact with Google Compute instances directly from the command line.

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