1. Chris Spence
@tophlammiepie
IRC: fiddyspence
cspence@puppetlabs.com
Friday, March 22, 13

2. Friday, March 22, 13

3. State of Puppet
Friday, March 22, 13

4. Puppet Labs: by the numbers
Jan 2012 March 2013
Employees 55 120
Customer Countries 29 42
836 m2 2,232 m2
Office Space
9,000 ft2 25,000 ft2
Friday, March 22, 13

5. Puppet Labs: A Great Place to Work!
Weekly Company Lunch
Awesome Espresso & Tea
Photos by Gary Larizza
Friday, March 22, 13

6. We’re Hiring!
Friday, March 22, 13

7. Who uses Puppet?
Friday, March 22, 13

8. Strong Community (Jan 2013)
Forum Members Messages
puppet-users list 5255 1029
puppet-dev list 952 127
ask.puppetlabs.com 205 383
#puppet 938
Redmine 3839
Repository Forks Watchers
Puppet 466 1145
MCollective 149 103
Friday, March 22, 13

9. How can you take part in the
Puppet Community?
• Help with documentation
• Ask/Answer questions
• http://ask.puppetlabs.com
• mailing lists
• IRC
• Help with bug triage
• Contribute code
• Contribute modules on the Forge
• Visit https://puppetlabs.com/community to learn
more
Friday, March 22, 13

10. AUGUST 22 - 23
PuppetConf.com
Friday, March 22, 13

11. Puppet?
Friday, March 22, 13

12. Puppet is not ...
DIY System Management
Friday, March 22, 13

13. System Management: The Puppet
Way
Friday, March 22, 13

14. Defining a Desired State
Friday, March 22, 13

15. Maintaining Desired State
• Provision a Node
• Describe how it should look
• Let Puppet manage it
Friday, March 22, 13

16. Puppet
Enterprise?
Friday, March 22, 13

17. Puppet Enterprise
GUI Cloud Provisioning
Orchestration Compliance
Services &
Packaging
Support
Friday, March 22, 13

18. GUI for Puppet
Time-based
display for
insight into rate
of change
High level
status for
nodes
Detailed node
status to
pinpoint
specific issues
Friday, March 22, 13

19. PE Live Management
Choose nodes to
clone to ensure
consistency
Browse for Preview the
managed impact
nodes in your before you
infrastructure clone nodes
Friday, March 22, 13

20. VM/Cloud Provisioning
1. Create VM node capacity
using VMware vSphere or AWS
2. Automatically install
the Puppet Agent on new nodes
3. Configure nodes
using existing definitions
VMware vSphere or AWS
Respond quickly to business demands while maintaining
configuration consistency across environments
Friday, March 22, 13

21. PE Compliance
• Establish baseline
of desired state
• Visualize changes
to desired baseline
• Accept or reject
changes to baseline
Friday, March 22, 13

22. Recent Features
• Certificate Signing from the GUI
• Authentication with LDAP and Google Apps
Friday, March 22, 13

23. Resources for Success
Friday, March 22, 13

24. Puppet Happenings
Friday, March 22, 13

25. Friday, March 22, 13

26. Puppet 3 Developments
• Removal of dynamic scoping
• Extensions loaded from gems
• Full Ruby 1.9.3 support
• Pluginsync by default
• Data Separation with data binding
• Performance improvements
• Better version numbers
• More platform support
• Code loading improvements
• Even more documentation
Friday, March 22, 13

27. Scope
# dynamic scoping is gone
class parent {
$var = "from parent"
include included
}
class included {
notify { $var: } ## NOT GONNA WORK
notify { $parent::var: } ## YUP
}
Friday, March 22, 13

28. Data Binding
class ntp($server = hiera(ntp_server,
‘time.apple.com’)) {
...
}
# can be changed to
class ntp($ntpserver = ‘time.apple.com’) {
...
}
Friday, March 22, 13

29. Performance
Gains
Friday, March 22, 13

30. Friday, March 22, 13

31. Puppet 3 moving on from 2.7
2.7.0 Release
3.1.0 Release
3.0.0 Release
Friday, March 22, 13

32. API Documentation!
Friday, March 22, 13

33. Transparency in plans
Friday, March 22, 13

34. Forge Happenings
Friday, March 22, 13

35. The Puppet Module Forge
• Repository of modules
• Written by the community
• Written for the community
• Identify the best ones out there
• Great place to contribute your own modules
Friday, March 22, 13

36. By the Numbers
Jan 2012 March 2013
Modules 260 925
Users 930 2100+
Daily Downloads 500 2200
Friday, March 22, 13

37. What changed?
• Dedicated team
• Show download counts
• More visible documentation
Friday, March 22, 13

38. MCollective
Happenings
Friday, March 22, 13

39. The Marionette Collective
• Framework to build server orchestration
• Parallel job execution
• Real-time discovery of resources
• Target only the systems you want
Friday, March 22, 13

40. Continuous Release
• Agents in packages, real packages
• MCO does it, so you can make them too
• Continuously built, continuously released
Friday, March 22, 13

41. Usability
• Better docs
• More Complete applications
• Out of the box usability
• But still the framework it always was
• Full integration into puppet training
Friday, March 22, 13

42. PuppetDB
Happenings
Friday, March 22, 13

43. PuppetDB
• Central storage for catalogs and facts that are part of
your puppet infrastructure
• Incredibly fast replacement for existing
ActiveRecord storeconfigs
• Easily deployed via a puppet module from the Forge
Friday, March 22, 13

44. Better Query, More Storage
• PuppetDB 1.1 released
• Enhanced Query API for
facts, subqueries, regular
expressions
• Report Storage
• Report Query in an
experimental API
Friday, March 22, 13

45. Razor Happenings
Friday, March 22, 13

46. Razor Provisioning
• Rules-based provisioning for bare metal hardware
and virtual servers
• Developed in cooperation with EMC
• Easily deployed via a puppet module from the Forge
• Automatically brings the new server into your
puppet infrastructure
• Open, pluggable, and programmable
Friday, March 22, 13

47. Razor Present and Future
• Security audits, fixes in the 0.9.0 release
• Working on making releases for yum and apt
• Not yet ready for prime time
• Help us get it there
• File bugs, contribute to the community
Friday, March 22, 13

48. Training
&
Certification
Friday, March 22, 13

49. Training by Country
Friday, March 22, 13

50. Puppet Education:
Training and Certification Track
Friday, March 22, 13

51. Questions?
Friday, March 22, 13

52. Thank You!
Learn More:
http://puppetlabs.com
http://puppetlabs.com/community
http://puppetlabs.com/puppet/puppet-enterprise/
Friday, March 22, 13