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Pulling the Strings

“Write a Book About Puppet 8,” They Said. “It’ll Be Fun,” They Said.

The opportunity to write a Puppet 8 book landed in David Sandilands’s lap when he had just started at Puppet and with a child on the way. About a year and a half later in mid-2023, “Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers” launched via Packt. This is the story of everything that happened in the middle.


Speakers:

  • Ben Ford, Community Lead at Puppet by Perforce
  • David Sandilands, Senior Solutions Architect at Puppet by Perforce

 

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[10+ YEARS OF DEVOPS REPORTS]

 

Highlights:

  • What other Puppet books didn’t have
  • The joy of creating a book that doesn’t have to cater to one audience or another
  • What it's like to work with a publisher
  • Learning to lean on your community for support
  • Hard-learned tips for writing your own book

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