By combining VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) with Puppet Enterprise, your timeline for provisioning new production-ready servers or deploying applications can be shrunk down from weeks to minutes! Watch this live demonstration of the new Puppet plugin for vRealize Automation (vRA) by our Puppet and VMware subject matter expert. We will explore the importance of how vRA integrates with Puppet Enterprise, so you can use Puppet to build multi-tier stacks with one click deploys from the vRA catalog.

1. Puppet Enterprise &
vRealize Automation
Better Together

2. Digital transformation
DevOps initiatives
Container adoption
Shifting budgets
Tool proliferation
Modernization
Cloud migration
Technical debt
Skill gaps
Security
Compliance
Agile IT
Automation
Shadow IT

3. Deliver
better software, faster...
...while reducing risk!

4. to the new wayfrom the old way
A massive shift is required
• Automatic, standard and scalable
• Delivering at will
• Inherent security
• Constantly modern
Ad hoc, manual and error prone
Infrequent delivery
Security in silos
Legacy platforms

5. 3.1x
Increase in
deployment speed
2.7x
Fewer outages
1.8x
Less security fix time
2.5x
More frequent
deployments
5.4%
Reduction in IT Opex
2.8x
Increase in
audit success rate
Source: ESG Economic Value Validation Report. Results are avg of >200 Puppet Enterprise customers.
Doing it right delivers results

6. Legacy Manual Workflow
Hours/Days
(Manual/Handoffs)
Manual initial
configuration
Manual /
Ad Hoc/
Custom
VM Creation/
Network initialization
Manual application
deployment
Production
Drift
Management
Minutes

7. Fully Automated Workflow
Hours/Days
(Manual/Handoffs)
Manual initial
configuration
Manual /
Ad Hoc/
Custom
VM Creation/
Network initialization
Manual application
deployment
Production
Drift
Management
Minutes
Puppet Enterprise/vRA/EHC
Production Drift
Management
VM Creation/
Network initialization Puppet Agent Configuration & Deployment Production
Drift
Management
Minutes
Continuous

8. Agility Through IT
Automation
Personalization
Through
Governance
Policies
Efficiency
Through Cost
Containment
Choice Through
Flexibility
What vRA Delivers…

9. Know what you
have
Control it and
enforce consistency
Secure it and
keep it compliant
Modernize it
What Puppet Enterprise delivers
Using a common language
Across everything, no matter where it runs

10. How Puppet Works
Configuration Management
10
1
Facts
2
Catalog
Node
3
Report
Puppet Master

11. It's all about
teamwork!

13. Ready to see it in action?

15. PE + vRA/EHC SolutionLegacy Challenge
Puppet Enterprise + vRA / EHC
• Simple baseline VM templates.
• Standard and reusable Puppet code from
a supported library of content (Forge).
• Automatically update provisioned VMs
based on new desired state.
• Ensure VMs are continually security-
hardened and compliant.
Day 1 Potential for template sprawl.
Day 1 Error-prone provisioning scripts.
Fragile and ad hoc.
Day 2+ Manually update/change VMs
once they’re provisioned.
Day 2+ Manually remediating security
and compliance issues.

16. Why Puppet Enterprise and vRA/EHC
Scale the Service Catalog
Eliminate manual template builds and
maintenance. Move from static to
dynamic templates.
Adopt DevOps practices
Unify tools, teams and
processes and remove
bottlenecks and handoffs.
Single Management Platform
Use the same Puppet policy to
manage the catalog AND the
deployed VMs.
Achieve faster time-to-value from your vRA/EHC investment

17. Thank you!
Questions?

18. Template Sprawl
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19. End Template Sprawl

20. Reference Architecture

21. Infrastructure as Code
Describe the ideal environment with a simple, commonly understood language
building { 'home':
ensure => 'clean',
front_door => 'closed',
keys => 'key_hook',
jacket => 'closet',
floor => 'vacuumed’,
litter_box => 'empty',
remote => 'coffee_table',
}

22. Puppet Master
Puppet Architecture
Windows
Server
Linux
Server
Cisco
Switch
Amazon
Cloud
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