This document provides an overview of getting started with Puppet, including which Puppet distribution to use, external node classifiers, PuppetDB, Hiera, provisioning options, scaling Puppet, configuration as code using modules, the Puppet Forge for modules, learning more from IRC channels and mailing lists, and using Vagrant for learning. It also includes examples of Puppet code.

1. GETTING STARTED W/ PUPPET
PROJECT
CHAD METCALF - @METCALFC
DATE
01/18/13 CLIENT
PUPPET CAMP SILICON

2. INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER @ WIBIDATA
4 YEARS USING PUPPET - BUILD AND RELEASE - HADOOP/HBASE - INFRASTRUCTURE - OPERATIONS

3. PUPPET ECOSYSTEM
GETTING BIGGER EVERYDAY

4. LEARNING PUPPET VM
STARTING AS FAST AS YOU CAN DOWNLOAD 580 MEGS

5. WHICH PUPPET DISTRIBUTION
IT IS A LOT LIKE SUSHI

6. WHICH PUPPET DISTRIBUTION
YOU CAN ROLL YOUR OWN TO VARYING DEGREES OF SUCCESS

7. WHICH PUPPET DISTRIBUTION
YOU CAN GO TO YOUR FAVORITE MEGA-MART AND GET SOME PACKAGED AWHILE AGO ALONG WITH SOME FRIED CHICKEN

8. WHICH PUPPET DISTRIBUTION
OR YOU CAN GO TO AN ACTUAL SUSHI JOINT

9. PUPPET OPEN SOURCE VS PUPPET ENTERPRISE
SAME GREAT TASTE

10. EXTERNAL NODE CLASSIFIER
FOREMAN - PUPPET DASHBOARD - PUPPET ENTERPRISE CONSOLE - ROLL YOUR OWN

11. PUPPETDB
STORECONFIG AND INVENTORY SERVICE STORAGE

12. HIERA
HIERARCHICAL DATABASE - CONFIGURATION DETAILS OUT OF CODE

13. CONSIDER PROVISIONING
FROM BARE METAL TO PUPPET READY

14. Puppet Master PuppetDB Console Razor
Dashboard Cobbler
Foreman Foreman*
ENC
Optional
PROOF OF CONCEPT
PROOF OF CONCEPTS NEVER DIE - EVEN IF YOU REALLY WISHED THEY WOULD

15. SCALING PUPPET
NO EASY ANSWERS

16. MODULE TIME?
WHEN ARE WE GOING TO DO SOME REAL WORK?

17. CONFIGURATION AS CODE
DOWN TO THE MODULES YOU USE

18. /etc/puppetlabs/puppet
├── modules
│ ├── concat
│ ├── dhcp
│ ├── epel
│ ├── hiera
│ ├── hiera-puppet
│ ├── limits
│ ├── mongodb
│ ├── mysql
│ ├── nodejs
│ ├── ntp

19. PUPPET FORGE
CLEARING HOUSE FOR MODULES YOU SHOULD BE USING

20. GITHUB
NOT EVERYTHING IS ON THE FORGE... YET.

21. FORKING
FORK TO EAT NOT TO LIVE - AKA STOP THE FORK

22. ROLL YOUR OWN
DON’T REINVENT THE WHEEL

23. LEARNING MORE
DON’T FORGET IRC #PUPPET - #PUPPET-DEV - MAILING LISTS

24. class boundary {
require boundary::params
require boundary::dependencies
$id = $boundary::params::id
$apikey = $boundary::params::apikey
$collector = $boundary::params::collector
$collector_port = $boundary::params::collector_port
file { '/etc/bprobe/':
ensure => directory,
mode => '0755',
owner => 'root',
group => 'root',
}
package { 'bprobe':
ensure => latest,
require => File['/etc/bprobe'],
}

25. PUPPET HAS MORE THEN A DSL
SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED TO WRITE A LITTLE RUBY

26. class evil {
define loop () {
notice("${name}")
}
loop { ['this', 'is', 'evil']:}
}
class{"evil":}
$ puppet apply evil.pp
notice: Scope(Evil::Loop[this]): this
notice: Scope(Evil::Loop[is]): is
notice: Scope(Evil::Loop[evil]): evil

27. node_config.vm.provision :puppet do |puppet|
puppet.manifests_path = 'provision/manifests'
puppet.module_path = 'provision/modules'
end
VAGRANT
LEARN TO ♥ IT

28. QUESTIONS?
YOU CAN FIND ME @METCALFC