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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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
Links:
- Check out David's book, “Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers,” via Packt
- “Puppet Best Practices” by Chris Barbour and Jo Rhett
- Ben Ford on Twitter
- David Sandilands on Twitter
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