This document provides an overview of new features in Puppet Enterprise 2016.4, including improved change reporting, orchestration capabilities, support for containers and additional integrations. Key updates allow users to segment infrastructure, orchestrate phased deployments, gain visibility into changes and identify security issues. The release also includes tools for building Docker images, integrating with VMware and Jenkins, and extending automation to additional Azure resources.

1. What’s New in Puppet Enterprise
2016.4
17 November, 2016

2. Welcome & Introductions
Grace Andrews
Technical Solutions Engineering
Puppet
Michael Olson
Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Puppet

3. Lay your DevOps foundation &
bridge today’s reality with
tomorrow’s

4. What’s new
Gain situational awareness with new change reporting
Drive software change confidently with orchestration improvements
Rapidly adopt containers in production
Lay your DevOps foundation with new integrations

5. Orchestrate deployments to targeted sets of infrastructure
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Segment infrastructure based on any facts stored in Puppet & target deployments
to matching nodes

6. Orchestrate deployments to targeted sets of infrastructure
Get full & direct control to drive changes on-
demand
View change status in real-time to pause or
throttle deployment if needed
Built-in intelligence ensures that ordered
deployments respect all dependencies across
your apps & infrastructure
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Run phased deployments & coordinate roll outs of change

7. Quickly identify whether changes are intentional
or the result of unexpected configuration drift
Know exactly when unexpected changes occur to
troubleshoot quickly & reduce MTTR
Identify security issues & alert teams faster
Visualize intentional vs. corrective changes
Gain visibility into the cause of changes across your infrastructure

8. Visualize intentional vs. corrective changes
Drill into individual resources to identify what changed and why

9. Build Docker container images with Puppet
Automate container build process using familiar,
predictable approach
Easily move existing services to Docker
containers without reinventing wheel
Enable consistent & reliable deployment of
services running in containers
Easily define & deploy services in containers

10. Integrate with VMware vRealize Automation
Automate self-service provisioning & configuration of infrastructure across its lifecycle

11. Integrate with Jenkins
Build continuous integration pipelines in Jenkins & orchestrate deployments with Puppet

12. Automate the delivery and operation of Azure
environments, with new support for:
• Resource Manager Templates
• Storage Accounts
• Private IP addresses, disks, extensions &
custom data
Updates to Microsoft Azure module
Extend automation to additional cloud resources in Azure

13. Client tools for Windows and Mac
Work faster from your Windows and Mac
workstations
Deploy changes quickly without first needing to
SSH into Puppet master
Manage infrastructure directly from your preferred workstations

14. Easily view status of proposed changes in
simulation mode, including which changes would
have:
• Had intentional vs. corrective changes
• Experienced failures
• Remained unchanged
Improve change success rate with detailed reporting on simulation mode Puppet runs
Visualize status of proposed changes

15. Classify & visualize node groups faster
Define and visualize node group hierarchies to ensure proper class inheritance

16. Live Demo
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17. • Upgrade Puppet Enterprise or download it for free on up to 10 nodes:
puppet.com/download-puppet-enterprise
• Read the upgrade guide: docs.puppet.com/upgrade
• Read our blog post outlining our latest release: https://puppet.com/pe2016.4
Next steps

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Thank You! Questions?