1. To the Future!
Goals for Puppet 4
(And Facter too)
Andy Parker
Puppet Labs
@aparker42
IRC zaphod42
Kylo Ginsberg
Puppet Labs
@kylog
IRC kylo

2. About Kylo
• Since June 2013
• Platform team
• Client-side focus
–Agent
–Facter

3. About Andy
• Since March 2012
• Platform team
• Server-side focus
–Language
–Hiera

4. Tour de Puppet:
1.Release Cadence
2.Changes
3.Components
4.Native Facter

5. Cadence
kate mccarthy on Flickr

7. Puppet Design Today
Stan and Jan Berenstain, Bears on Wheels

8. One small
change ...
Stan and Jan Berenstain, Bears on Wheels

9. How we do it
Tejvan Pettinger on Flickr

10. Changes
Ben Eekhof on Flickr
• Language Updates
• Environments
• Spring cleaning

11. Language
define my_thing(Array[String] $msgs) {
$msgs.each |$msg| {
notify { $msg: }
}
}

12. Directories
environments
- env
|- modules
- manifests
Earthworm on Flickr

13. Spring
Cleaning
Jim Carson on Flickr

14. Components

15. Caffeinated
Will Vanlue on Flickr

16. Stringified
Zane Selvans on Flickr

17. Planned Upgrades
Christopher Cotrell on Flickr
• Revamped Catalog
• Some sort of
“orchestration”

18. Native
Facter
http://fromthethicket.files.wordpress.com

19. Native Facter: Performance

20. Native
Facter:
portability
mount on Flickr

21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyTsD1LhRZE.com
Native
Agent

22. What color
should we
paint it?
bikehacks.com