On Ruby Interviews James Turnbull and Reviews the Puppet Book

Pat of On Ruby has posted a brief review of James Turnbull's Puppet book, Pulling the Strings with Puppet:

This book is filled with helpful code samples and pointers to external resources that look very useful. It's well written and easy to understand. As good a tool as Puppet looks to be, this looks like an equally good book to get you going. If you're doing configuration management for anything more than a box or two, run, don't walk, and pick up your copy of Pulling Strings with Puppet.

Pat also posted an interview with James:

Who gets the credit (Or is it blame?) for the title of your book, 'Pulling Strings with Puppet'

That'd be my editor and the marketing guys at Apress. Do you know how excited marketing people are when a product allows amusing alliteration and puns' :) But I like it -- it's both kitsch and catchy.

Looks like the book is really helping with the visibility of Puppet, which is great, and people seem to even like the book so far. :)

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 | Tags: puppet, book, interview, jamesturnbull, review, ruby, onruby

Puppet Book Now on Amazon

James Turnbull's Puppet book, Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy just got posted on Amazon. It lists the publication date as February 4th, so it's not going to be out for a while, but I'm very excited by the book. James has asked me lots of questions in the build-up to this book, so it should contain a lot of deeper insight than the current documentation provides (although he has also consistently turned my answers into better documentation).

It's been clear from these many conversations that James has done a very thorough, top-to-bottom analysis of Puppet, so I'm really looking forward to the book.

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 | Tags: puppet, book, amazon