1. Windows: Having It’s Ass
Kicked by Puppet and
PowerShell since 2012
Paul Stack
http://www.paulstack.co.uk
http://twitter.com/stack72
mail: buildstuff@paulstack.co.uk

2. About Me
Develop software for OpenTable
DevOps Extremist
Conference Junkie

3. Agenda
Classic infrastructure management
Snowflake / Phoenix Servers / Immutable Infrastructure
Infrastructure as Code
PowerShell as a way to manage Windows
PowerShell + Puppet = Kicking Windows’ Ass

4. Classic Infrastructure
Management

5. “The Run book”

6. People are generally rubbish
at performing manual
repetitive tasks

7. SnowFlake Server
Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SnowflakeServer.html
Image courtesy of Liz West and under Creative Commons License

8. Machines are much more
reliable at performing
repetitive tasks

9. Image courtesy of FoodBev Photos and under Creative Commons License

10. Can’t we automate our
manual run books?

11. Infrastructure As Code

12. Phoenix Servers
Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PhoenixServer.html

16. Simian Army

17. Immutable infrastructure
Chad Fowler: http://chadfowler.com/blog/2013/06/23/immutable-deployments/

18. Code Is Better

19. Windows Infrastructure
Management…..

21. Managing Windows Server
2008 with PowerShell

22. Puppet

23. Puppet on Windows

24. Types Available
file
user
group
scheduled_task
package
service
exec
host

25. Demo

26. Our modules evolve
everyday….

27. Get a good development
environment

28. Puppet Forge

29. Puppet integration with
Windows will get better and
better

30. The Foreman

31. Summary
Code is much better for managing servers than people
PowerShell is a tool to use when working with
Windows
Puppet compliments what PowerShell does perfectly in
a DSL format
Windows Server management is no longer a pain in the
ass.

32. Further Information
http://forge.puppetlabs.com/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/
http://github.com/opentable