About the Author

John Arundel is a consultant engineer who helps people build better infrastructure. He uses automation and configuration management to make computer systems cheaper, faster, and more reliable. Formerly a senior enterprise systems engineer in the hosting division of US telco Verizon, he now runs his own company, Bitfield Consulting, and says he has never worked so hard in his life, or for less money.

Over the years John has worked with clients in the advertising and media industry, software, finance, retail, logistics, and even the emergency services, advising on architecture, automation, security, backups, resilience, performance, capacity planning, and regulatory compliance. He has been a member of the Puppet community since ...

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