"Keynote Address" by Luke Kanies, CEO and founder of Puppet Labs
Puppet Labs CEO and founder Luke Kanies gave the first keynote of PuppetConf 2013, discussing the growth of the Puppet community and the ways in which automation and DevOps are in the vanguard of IT.
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Editor's Notes
Sorry we couldn’t get a nicer hotel
We’ll have Q&A at the end; here’s the short link
Massive investments in infrastructureEnterprise is moving faster than ever
Cloud cloud cloud cloudBut who is cloud actually disrupting?
Netflix, Google, AWS are at the edgeMost aren’t near it
You still have to build it yourselfNot yet operationalized, not yet productizedStill interesting, but very hardToo hard for most companies still
Nope, you’re weirdYou recognize the problemBut want a shared product, a community of peoplePeople with the same problems and the same goals
Goals, problems, technologyA stronger communityMoving the industry
Training pollTrained 1700+ this yearDemosI learn from all of youAnd learn from each other
Last year the big complaint was you couldn’t go to all the talksWe decided to make it dramatically worse
A couple of pollsWho is here now? Who has been to an event before? PuppetConf?Event outside of US?Who’s new to Puppet? Using it now? 2012? …05?
You saw all the great stats in the intro video9 million product downloads in the last 12 months1.2 million Puppet Forge downloads1400 modules on the Forge
His great work at Spotify with PuppetHis awesome pull requests that improve Puppet and other tools
Taking over DashboardImproving it greatly
Co-organizing PuppetCamp GhentWorking with us on many sysadmin events and projects
Answered more than 60 questions on ask.puppetlabs.com in the last 6 monthsContributions to projects like r10k (Puppet env and module deployment tool)On his honeymoon instead of at PuppetConf
Many many contributions to puppetGreat work using Puppet at Mozilla
Customers in every vertical, of every sizeSolving every kind of problem
121st fastest growing company
Critical partner, now largest investorPervasive virtualization is amazing advance, but brings its own problemsStill heterogeneous: OpenStack, AWS, GCE, Azure
So heterogeneous, we’re moving beyond computeLots of investment in managing network devicesOriginal work done by Brice Figureau
We have freed OSS to move faster, break thingsBe more innovativePE is about building a wider ecosystemOf support, training, integrations, certified modulesAnd best practices. Also enables layered products
We’re not done yet
Puppet was founded to enable reuse and sharingToo much repetition and reinvention
Easy: Geppetto, online learningPerformanceStabilityClean, Documented APIsPE 3 with better performance,PuppetDB, etc.
Network: Cisco, Juniper, AristaF5, MySQL, NetApp
Cross-node dependenciesContinuous Delivery
Already made a ton of progress on higher quality modulesAll Puppet Labs modules will soon be supportedFixing the whole chain to make use and contribution easier
Invite Joe Wagner on stage to demo
Demos, Test PilotsTry the products, tell us what sucksExplain your biggest problems