Ryan Coleman gives the Keynote at Puppet Camp Silicon Valley

1. Ryan Coleman
@ryanycoleman
IRC: ryanycoleman
ryan@puppetlabs.com

2. A Quick Poll

3. We live in
Interesting Times

4. More. Faster.

5. Old practices are
constraints ...

6. ...and old constraints
are
gone

7. Major IT
movements

8. No future....

9. SaaS sets the trend

10. Enterprise pays the
bills

11. Driving down the cost
of technological change

12. Started 8.5 years
ago

13. Datacenter and
Cloud Automation

14. Very Simple Language

15. New Approach: Software
Defined Infrastructure

16. Lifecycle of a Puppet Run

17. Puppet
Architecture

18. Puppet Enterprise

19. Solid platform

20. Ecosystem
Support

21. Additional
Features

22. Interactive Event Reporting

23. Live Management:
Remote Control of Puppet Agent

24. Live Management: Resource Browsing and
Centralized Inv.

25. Cloud Provisioner /
VMWare Support

26. Open Source

27. Technical Proving
Ground

28. Highly Flexible
Core Components

29. Puppet
• Core language for specifying
infrastructure state
• Transactional system for enforcing it
• Resource Abstraction Layer
• Reusable modules: Puppet Forge
Puppet Enterprise built on top of Puppet

30. MCollective (mco)
• Parallel, real-time execution across your
whole network
• Real-time discovery of all nodes and their
functions
• Powerful command and control tool
Drives Orchestration Engine in Puppet Enterprise

31. PuppetDB
• Stores all configurations, facts, and
reports
• Knows everything there is to know about
your infrastructure
• Foundation for nearly all reporting and
analysis
Foundation for Puppet / Puppet Enterprise data storage

32. Facter
• Facts: bits of data that you care about
• Core inputs for customizing Puppet
•
configurations per host
Easily pluggable to collect new data or
store it in existing databases
Foundation for Puppet / Puppet Enterprise Inventory

33. Hiera
• Separate site configuration data from
reusable code
• Iterate and promote code quickly without
having to manage dev/test configuration
differences
Foundation for Puppet / Puppet Enterprise Hierarchical Data

34. Razor
• Rules-based provisioning for bare metal
hardware and virtual servers
• Feeds directly into your Puppet
Infrastructure
• Physical machines as easy to provision
as VMs
Provision servers, then use Puppet / Puppet Enterprise

35. Puppet Armatures (ARM)
• Proposals to enhance / add features
• For significant / large impact work
• Community-focused process with
•
improved openness and transparency
Working on simplifying process
Feature Enhancements for Puppet
github.com/puppetlabs/armatures

36. Puppet Forge
•
•
•
•
Module repository
By the community ... For the community
Identify and use the best ones
Contribute your own modules
Add Additional Functionality to Puppet / Puppet Enterprise

37. Puppet Labs

38. Customers Everywhere

39. We’re Hiring!
• Professional Services (everywhere)
• Engineering
• QA
• Modules
• Forge
• Windows
• Platform
• Solutions Engineering
• Support
• ...and lots more
puppetlabs.com/about/careers

40. What’s Next?

41. Join the Community
• Learn from others
• Ask/Answer questions
• http://ask.puppetlabs.com
• mailing lists
• IRC
• Help with bug triage
• Contribute code
• Contribute modules on the Forge
puppetlabs.com/community

42. Take In-Person Training &
Get Certified

43. People Love our Worldwide
Training!
“
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“
I liked being with other sharp admins in an environment where "crosspollination" and experimentation were encouraged.
Very useful information, a good start for our Puppet team, and would highly
recommend it.
A brilliant course to jump into using puppet fast and effectively.

44. Take Online Training
puppetlabs.com/learn

45. Influence Products

46. Register or Submit a Talk

47. Questions?
Questions?

48. Thank You!
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