Our most recent Puppet Podcast is thrilling: a rare opportunity to talk with CERN about Puppet. Our special guest, Tim Bell, runs the IT infrastructure group at CERN. He's joined by Puppet Labs Platform Engineering Director Deepak Giridharagopal and hosts Kara Sowles and Kent Bye for a long talk on CERN's two-year infrastructure overhaul and what they're doing with Puppet.
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, was founded in 1954 as a research laboratory where scientists could gather for fundamental research. Tim tells us, "The basic goal is to understand the universe, how it works, and what it's made of. The aim is the quest for knowledge."
The largest experiment they run is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest piece of scientific equipment on the earth, which is "used in order to recreate some of the conditions after the big bang and, by doing so, understand the fundamental particles of which matter is made." As you can imagine, these experiments are produ
