My discussion this week is with Eric Shamow of Puppet Labs.  He'll be presenting at our upcoming DevOps Seminar on October 18th.  We took a little time to discuss DevOps in general, and Puppet in some specifics.

Part two will be a deeper dive into Puppet itself.  Look for that podcast in early September.  

Resouces, per Eric:

• http://www.puppetlabs.com/ - the main site for Puppet
• Puppet Labs has recently put up a great getting started guide which should really help folks who want to get started. This page comes with a link to a training VM that you can use to get started with Puppet right away: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning
• PuppetConf will be held on September 22-23, in Portland, OR - http://www.puppetconf.com
• A great summary of a talk by Patrick Debois summarizing the notion of culture change and trust as the cornerstone for a DevOps environment: http://www.maestrodev.com/blogs/trust-as-the-cornerstone-of-devops-culture
• Eric has an article, DevOps at Advance Internet: How We Got in the Door, appearing in this month's Cutter IT journal: http://www.cutter.com/itjournal.html

Eric can be found at his blog, http://opsrealist.com and via e-mail at eric at opsrealist.com. Also twitter - @eshamow