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

Pulling the Strings

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