My Talk at Puppet Camp in Sydney 2015.

1. Puppet on Windows
Building Windows Infrastructure with Puppet

2. ALEXANDER TSIREL

3. HELLO FROM ESTONIA

6. NOT TO FAR FROM SYDNEY

7. JN SOLUTION

8. Is Puppet ready to
manage windows servers?

9. NOPE

10. REALITY

11. WE WILL TRY

13. MINIMAL TOOLBELT

14. Powershell support
Registry manager
Firewall manager
DISM manager
ACL wrapper
…
…
Many other plugins
MINIMAL TOOLBELT

15. EXAMPLE SCRIPT

16. EXAMPLE SCRIPT

17. PUPPET + POWERSHELL

18. PUPPET JUST DELIVERY SYSTEM

19. PUPPET FOR WINDOWS?

20. RUBY FOR WINDOWS?

21. REAL SCRIPTING GOES HERE

22. REAL SCRIPTING GOES HERE

23. GOOD IN POWERSHELL
BEST IN PUPPET

24. EXAMPLE SCRIPT

25. CAN WE TRUST PUPPET?

26. NOPE

27. RERUN RERUN RERUN

28. ONE COMMAND DIFFERENT RESULT

29. PUPPET CAN’T SEE
Applied changes in Policy
Registry users HKCU

30. PUPPET CAN’T SEE
Lodge Tricky Tasks
Affect logged in Users
and more

31. DON’T ASK TO MUCH

32. PUPPET CAN
Write once run forever*
*conditions apply

33. PUPPET CAN
Write once run forever*

34. Spinning new windows VMs
With Puppet

35. OUR EXAMPLE NETWORK

36. OUR EXAMPLE NETWORK

37. BUILDING
~100
INSTANCES DAILY

38. PUPPET MANIFEST

39. JUST INSTALL PUPPET AGENT

40. JUST INSTALL PUPPET AGENT

41. ~2000 LINES OF INSTRUCTIONS

42. 6 MINUTES TO FINISH

43. PUPPET HAS ISSUES

44. BUT WE LOVE PUPPET

45. BUT WE LOVE PUPPET

46. QUESTIONS?
Alexander Tsirel
twitter: @noma4i