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Stephen K. Potter

Senior Manager of Sales Engineering

Stephen K. Potter directs highly skilled teams at Puppet to build intelligent technology platforms that accelerate the sales process. Decades of experience in the technology sector have helped him hone his expertise in the automation, security, compliance, and cloud spaces. Stephen uses his deep institutional knowledge to lead the creation, development, and optimization of processes that meet the needs of modern business and deliver Puppet solutions faster.

Latest Content from Stephen K. Potter

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HPC Configuration: How Configuration Management Can Enhance AI Workload Efficiency

HPC configuration includes setting up hardware, software, networks & security for HPC clusters. Find guidance on HPC server configuration for AI workloads here.
Configuration Management, Ecosystems & Integrations
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What is Software Deployment Automation & Which Tool is Right for You?

Simplify and accelerate the delivery cycle with software deployment automation across development, testing, and production environments.
DevOps, Infrastructure Automation
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Linux Security: Keeping Linux Machines Secure with Less Tinkering

Linux security uses a modular, open-source architecture to fine-tune security. But that can make it a challenge. Here are tips & best practices to secure Linux.
Security & Compliance, Ecosystems & Integrations
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Securing and Configuring AI Environments: AI in Operations

Want to build stronger AI environments? Everything old is new again — learn how to advance your IT operations using AI and traditional cluster management.
Configuration Management, Security & Compliance
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VM Configuration: Using IaC to Stand Up Consistent Virtual Machines & Cut Down on Complexity

VM configuration gets a virtual machine (VM) ready for use with CPU, RAM, software & more. Here's how to automate complex VM configuration management at scale.
Configuration Management, Cloud
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The Secret to Enterprise Observability: Agent-Based Automation & Configuration Management

Observability provides crucial insights to an IT system & its components. Agent-based automation makes sure observability tools don't run into scaling problems.
Configuration Management, Infrastructure Automation
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Strengthen Your Security in the Cloud: Privacy and Data Security

Are you staying on top of security in the cloud? Explore tactics and tips for privacy and data security, common challenges, and so much more.
Cloud, Security & Compliance
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4 Key Reasons to Switch from SaltStack to Puppet

SaltStack’s push-based automation model can be great for quick changes, but Puppet’s pull-based agent automation lets you continuously enforce desired state across Linux and Windows. In this competitive comparison blog, find out why organizations choose to switch from SaltStack to Puppet for infrastructure automation and configuration management.
Infrastructure Automation, Configuration Management
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3 Reasons to Migrate from Ansible to Puppet

Why make an Ansible > Puppet migration? We’ve got three reasons why you might want to consider a change.
Infrastructure Automation, DevOps