Puppet Camp America West; 25 June 2020

1. Puppet Camp
America West
Eric Sorenson
25 June 2020

2. /usr/bin/whoami
sysadmin / sre / bad coder
large scale config mgmt practitioner
technical product manager
guitarist and synthesist
pinball game renter

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Cloud adoption has shifted the center
of gravity for automation
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Today
• Model/task-driven automation
• OSs, hardware, apps, VMs, hypervisor
• Config management is king
Tomorrow
• Event-driven orchestration
• APIs, services, serverless, K8s, container platforms
• Config management is a smaller part of the infra stack
CloudOn-prem

5. Automation Evolved
Model-driven
automation
Task-based
orchestration
Event-driven
automation
Model + task
hybrids
t-shirt: microcosm publishing
Scripting

6. Puppet
Enterprise
2019.8 LTS
Support through June 2022
Patch Management
Bolt Plans in the Orchestrator
Lockless Code Deployment
Modernized look and feel

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Continuous
Delivery for PE
Predictably roll out change.
New: Federated inventory
reporting and module owners
Puppet
Remediate
Task-based remediation, now
with enhanced prioritization and
maintenance window support.
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Open Source Puppet Assist

10. Event-Driven Automation

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12. Triggers are based on cloud
events, git events, monitoring
alerts, tickets, and incidents – like
a Splunk alert, a Cloudwatch
alert, a GitHub PR being merged,
etc.
Steps are reusable, modular, and
composable--things like
destroying old EC2 instances,
provisioning environments with
Terraform, or clearing unattached
EBS volumes.
Approvals let you break out of a
workflow to wait for an external
process like manual approval or a
callback from another system.
Relay Taxonomy

13. Workflows-as-Code YAML
Parameters prompt the user for data input at
runtime to customize the behaviour of the
workflow. Values can be supplied interactively,
via API, or on CLI.
Secrets are stored securely server-side using
Hashicorp Vault, referenced in a workflow
using the "!Secret" tag.
Output tags enable data from previous steps
to be used by ones that come later.

14. Integration Ecosystem
A library of useful integrations that cover the
most common use cases and external services
with sample workflows and well-documented
steps that let you remix and combine however
you want.
Low-friction interoperability if you have
existing containers that you want to use in
Relay workflows, they can drop right in
alongside purpose-built integrations.
Easy step authoring if you've built something
that other people might find useful or want to
contribute to existing steps

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You are
here

16. Thank you PuppetCamp!
Up next:
Jeffrey Miller on Brownfield Puppet
Richard Romanus on Servicenow ENC
Cat Rayburn on Team Workspaces
Ben Ford on Telemetry
Lightning Talks!