Enterprise IT and DevOps teams are under tremendous pressure to efficiently deliver, operate and maintain infrastructure to support the needs of the business and its customers. It can take weeks to deliver production ready infrastructure and in response CIOs are looking for faster, self-service provisioning solutions. Now, VMware and Puppet together are providing a self-service provisioning solution that transforms weeks into minutes. By leveraging the new Configuration Automation Framework natively within vRealize Automation, customers can now seamlessly deploy, configure and manage production-ready applications by using vRealize Automation's blueprinting, service orchestration and governance workflows along with Puppet's configuration management capabilities. The out of box integration enables organizations to create blueprint templates for virtual machines using vRealize Automation’s graphical user interface, dynamically call in Puppet configuration parameters, roles etc. on the design canvas and also enable request time provisioning options. In this session, you'll learn about the new features, capabilities, and demo of vRealize Automation configuration automation framework and the integration with Puppet.

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vRealize Automation and Puppet
Enabling DevOps Ready IT
Ganesh Subramaniam | Group Product Line Manager, VMware
Mangesh Pangarkar | Director Engineering, VMware

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Disclaimer
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3. Agenda
Overview
vRealize Automation + Puppet Use Cases
Architecture & Demo
Q & A
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4. Any Cloud
Any Device
VMware Workspace ONE™
Desktop Mobile Identity
Any Application
Traditional Apps Cloud-Native Apps SaaS Apps
Modernize
Data
Centers
Transform
Security
Empower
the Digital
Workspace
Integrate
Public
Clouds
Software-Defined Data Center
VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture™
Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud Public Cloud
VMware Cloud Foundation™
VMware vRealize® Cloud Management
VMware vCloud Air
VMware vCloud
®
Air™
Network
Accelerating digital transformation
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VMware’s integrated architecture for achieving strategic IT priorities
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VMware Cross-Cloud Services™

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Make the private cloud easy to operate
Simplified setup Lights out operations
Seamlessly integrate & build
upon VMware Cloud
Foundation
Easy configuration
Easily configure the ready-to-
consume cloud on day 1
Operate cloud optimally &
easily
Easy to
Operate
Private
Cloud
Easy configuration

6. Key User Personas in Cloud Management
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7. vRealize Automation
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Converged Blueprint Designer
• Unified Service Catalog
• Common authoring for all cloud
platforms
• Governance & Policies
• Incorporate On-Demand Networking
and Security
• Integrate external and custom services
from the XaaS library

8. Provisioning a VM is fast and easy, but...
 May not be security hardened or compliant with org’s
Standard Operating Environment (SOE)
 Consumer still has to add their own components, likely
manually.
 You could easily consume a week’s worth of work
manually completing the build-out of the newly
provisioned server
 VMs can get thrown over the wall: no central visibility
into what the Consumer has done to the VM or what
state it is in now
 No way to automate updating the VM once it has been
provisioned

9. vRealize Automation & Configuration Automation Framework
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Configuration Management
through XaaS/vRealize Orchestrator workflows
Configuration Management as “First Class” citizen
First Integration with Puppet

10. Configuration Management as a “First Class Citizen”
• Configuration Management the GUI
options in Blueprint canvas
• Config. Management Server as an
vRA endpoint
• Config. Management aware
Blueprints
• Align with existing workflows and
governance
• First Integration with Puppet
Enterprise
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11. vRealize Automation +

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Puppet Practitioner Composes Offerings from Puppet Content
ntp
ssh
Security
sudoers
SNMP
Java
apache
Tomcat
logstash
Postgres
sudoers
SNMP
RHEL Base
ntp
ssh
App Server
Java
apache
Tomcat
ACLs
Log Server
logstash
Postgres
Win Base
ACLs
Bill Pay
Middleware
App Server
Security
Win Base
Standard
Logging
Log Server
Security
RHEL Base
modules profiles roles
Source: Puppet

13. vRealize Automation Config. Automation Framework + Puppet
• Provider Workflow Impact
– Download vRA/vRO Puppet plug-in
– Register Puppet as an end point
– Design Blueprint with config. management node/role selection
– Publish Catalog Item
• Consumer Workflow Impact
– Presented with catalog options
– Select request time options
– Provision Blueprint
– Day 2 Operations
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14. Persona workflow mapping across vRealize Automation and Puppet
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15. Puppet as an Endpoint in vRealize Automation
• Support multiple Puppet Masters
• Tenant level capability to register
Puppet as an endpoint
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16. Simplifying Application Configuration
• Drag and Drop Puppet component
in the design canvas
• Parametrize configuration
management properties in the vRA
GUI
• Import/Export YAML with Puppet
schema attached
• Support Day 2 actions
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17. Binding Parameters at Blueprint Authoring Time
• Give prescriptive recipe to
developers
• Dynamically query Puppet Master,
Environment and Roles
• Dynamically assign Puppet Roles
per blueprint component
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18. Binding Parameters at Provisioning Time
• Reduce Blueprint Sprawl
• Give flexibility to developers to choose
Puppet Environment and Puppet Role at
provisioning time
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19. Support for Multi-Tier Application
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20. Architecture & Demo

21. Architecture view – vRA & Config Management integration
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vRA Internal services
Composition
Service
Config management Service
Component
Creation
Puppet
Component
CM
Component 1
Plugin
Interface
CM
Endpoint
Creation
ASD
service
CM
Component 2
Puppet Master
CM Tool1
CM Tool 2
…
Catalog
Service
Form
Service
vRealize Orchestration
Puppet Plugin
CM Plugin 1
CM Plugin 2
getDataForForms
provisionMachine
destroyMachine

23. Summary

24. vRealize Automation
• Self-service catalog and framework
for any IT services, with governance
features
• OOTB framework for customers to
integrate with configuration
management tool of their choice
Puppet Enterprise
• Simplify deployment and
configuration of applications
• Eliminate configuration drift
• Ensure compliance
Key TakeAways
Enable developer agility, accelerate time to value, enterprise policies
compliance and reduced operational costs

25. Questions
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26. Thank You