This document provides an agenda for a presentation on automating IT infrastructure with Puppet Enterprise. The presentation will include an introduction, a demo of Puppet Enterprise, and a Q&A session. It promotes Puppet Enterprise as a way to automate provisioning, configuration, and management of machines and applications to deploy code more frequently and with fewer failures, helping businesses meet demands faster.
IT Agility Model - Supercharge your development and test activities with Micr...InCycle Software
Presentation that introduces Microsoft Azure for development and test to drive greater responsiveness and agility. With Microsoft Cloud, access to additional infrastructure quickly and simply for web and application servers, databases, virtual machines, etc. Discover how IT, Development and QA teams can work together to deploy environments and release applications faster, with more flexibility and efficiency.
Learn how to bring more IT agility with DevOps and Cloud computing practices. Organizations facing big IT challenges, such as growing workload and business pressure can take advantage of this new model for development, QA and IT teams.
Measuring Performance: See the Science of DevOps Measurement in ActionXebiaLabs
What is the best way to measure DevOps performance? And, how can it be done in a scientific way? In this webinar, Dr. Nicole Forsgren will present the frameworks and methodologies uniquely suited to evaluating the way we build and scale software applications. She’ll highlight lessons learned through a four-year research project presented in her upcoming book, Accelerate, written along with Jez Humble and Gene Kim.
Puppet Camp East, A New Cloud Operating Model, Ranjit Viswakumar, HashicorpPuppet
"Terraform is used by thousands of organizations for multi-platform resource provisioning across on-prem datacenters, public and private clouds, and containers. It uses declarative descriptions of resources like cloud instances, VPCs, databases, and more, to reconcile the state of the real world against the desired state. Once it's created, though, what's next? How do you smoothly bring new EC2 instances under management, connect them to the rest of the infrastructure, and handle the rest of their lifecycle? In this talk, we’ll walk through some battle-tested workflows that connect Terraform provisioning to ongoing management with Puppet and Bolt. Then we’ll examine the main points of integration between the ecosystems: running Puppet as a provisioner from Terraform, executing Terraform from a Bolt plan, and using Terraform's state file as an inventory source for task execution. Attendees will gain a better understanding of Terraform's feature set, recent developments in the Hashi Config Language (HCL), and how to make Terraform and Puppet play nicely together so your planet's infrastructure is not just breathable but livable for humans."
Major updates to Puppet Enterprise give you the power to use automation as the bridge to your future, whether that's moving to the cloud or adopting containers in production.
New change reporting and orchestration features make it easy to drive change with confidence, and tools for building and deploying popular cloud and container technologies give you a standard way to automate the delivery and operation of all of your software.
Join us for a webinar to see the latest release in action. You’ll learn about:
Orchestration enhancements to give you even more control to run phased deployments and coordinated roll-outs of change
Corrective change reporting to gain insight into why changes occur across your infrastructure
Tools to automate the build of Docker container images
Integration with VMware's vRealize Suite (vRA/vRO) to enable fully automated, self-service provisioning workflows
Integration with Jenkins to easily enable you to scale your DevOps practice by building continuous delivery pipelines and orchestrating infrastructure deployment
Presented by Michael Olson, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, and Grace Andrews, Technical Solutions Engineer.
Docker and Puppet for Continuous IntegrationGiacomo Vacca
Today developers want to change the code, build and deploy often, even several times per day.
New versions of software may need to be tested on different distributions, and with different configurations.
Achieving this with Virtual Machines it’s possible, but it’s very resource and time consuming. Docker provides an incredibly good solution for this, in particular if combined with Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins and Configuration Management tools like Puppet.
This presentation focuses on the opportunities to configure automatically Docker images, use Docker containers as disposable workers during your tests, and even running your Continuous Integration system inside Docker.
IT Agility Model - Supercharge your development and test activities with Micr...InCycle Software
Presentation that introduces Microsoft Azure for development and test to drive greater responsiveness and agility. With Microsoft Cloud, access to additional infrastructure quickly and simply for web and application servers, databases, virtual machines, etc. Discover how IT, Development and QA teams can work together to deploy environments and release applications faster, with more flexibility and efficiency.
Learn how to bring more IT agility with DevOps and Cloud computing practices. Organizations facing big IT challenges, such as growing workload and business pressure can take advantage of this new model for development, QA and IT teams.
Measuring Performance: See the Science of DevOps Measurement in ActionXebiaLabs
What is the best way to measure DevOps performance? And, how can it be done in a scientific way? In this webinar, Dr. Nicole Forsgren will present the frameworks and methodologies uniquely suited to evaluating the way we build and scale software applications. She’ll highlight lessons learned through a four-year research project presented in her upcoming book, Accelerate, written along with Jez Humble and Gene Kim.
Puppet Camp East, A New Cloud Operating Model, Ranjit Viswakumar, HashicorpPuppet
"Terraform is used by thousands of organizations for multi-platform resource provisioning across on-prem datacenters, public and private clouds, and containers. It uses declarative descriptions of resources like cloud instances, VPCs, databases, and more, to reconcile the state of the real world against the desired state. Once it's created, though, what's next? How do you smoothly bring new EC2 instances under management, connect them to the rest of the infrastructure, and handle the rest of their lifecycle? In this talk, we’ll walk through some battle-tested workflows that connect Terraform provisioning to ongoing management with Puppet and Bolt. Then we’ll examine the main points of integration between the ecosystems: running Puppet as a provisioner from Terraform, executing Terraform from a Bolt plan, and using Terraform's state file as an inventory source for task execution. Attendees will gain a better understanding of Terraform's feature set, recent developments in the Hashi Config Language (HCL), and how to make Terraform and Puppet play nicely together so your planet's infrastructure is not just breathable but livable for humans."
Major updates to Puppet Enterprise give you the power to use automation as the bridge to your future, whether that's moving to the cloud or adopting containers in production.
New change reporting and orchestration features make it easy to drive change with confidence, and tools for building and deploying popular cloud and container technologies give you a standard way to automate the delivery and operation of all of your software.
Join us for a webinar to see the latest release in action. You’ll learn about:
Orchestration enhancements to give you even more control to run phased deployments and coordinated roll-outs of change
Corrective change reporting to gain insight into why changes occur across your infrastructure
Tools to automate the build of Docker container images
Integration with VMware's vRealize Suite (vRA/vRO) to enable fully automated, self-service provisioning workflows
Integration with Jenkins to easily enable you to scale your DevOps practice by building continuous delivery pipelines and orchestrating infrastructure deployment
Presented by Michael Olson, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, and Grace Andrews, Technical Solutions Engineer.
Docker and Puppet for Continuous IntegrationGiacomo Vacca
Today developers want to change the code, build and deploy often, even several times per day.
New versions of software may need to be tested on different distributions, and with different configurations.
Achieving this with Virtual Machines it’s possible, but it’s very resource and time consuming. Docker provides an incredibly good solution for this, in particular if combined with Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins and Configuration Management tools like Puppet.
This presentation focuses on the opportunities to configure automatically Docker images, use Docker containers as disposable workers during your tests, and even running your Continuous Integration system inside Docker.
Puppetconf 2015 - Puppet Reporting with Elasticsearch Logstash and Kibanapkill
Answer deep questions about the health of configuration runs on your nodes with the popular Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana stack. While many questions about resources, catalogs and runtimes can be answered by using the Puppet Dashboard or Puppet Enterprise, there are limitations. Putting the reports and run metrics into Elasticsearch gives users full text search and filtering. Also, you can perform metrics and aggregations over resource numbers or run times. Kibana graphs are also a great way to supplement the dashboards available in Puppet Enterprise.
Puppet is a configuration management tool which allows easy deployment and configuration ranging from 1 to 1 thousand servers (and even more). Even though its common knowledge for devops, puppet is still a strange piece of software for developers. How does it work and what can it do for you as a developer?
Chasing AMI - Building Amazon machine images with Puppet, Packer and JenkinsTomas Doran
Using puppet when configuring EC2 machines seems a natural fit. However bringing up new machines from a community image with puppet is not trivial and can be slow, and so not useful for auto-scaling.
The cloud also offers a solution to ongoing server maintenance, allowing you to launch fresh instances whenever you upgrade your applications (Immutable or Phoenix servers). However to predictably succeed, you need to freeze the puppet code alongside the application version for deployment.
The solution to these issues is generating custom machine images (AMIs) with your software inlined. This talk will cover Yelp's use of a Packer, Jenkins and Puppet for generating AMIs. This will include how we deal with issues like bootstrapping, getting canonical information about a machine's environment and cluster state at launch time, as well as supporting immutable/phoenix servers in combination with more traditional long lived servers inside our hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Managing Windows Systems with Puppet - PuppetConf 2013Puppet
"Managing Windows Systems with Puppet" by James Sweeny Professional Services Engineer, Puppet Labs.
Presentation Overview: Since Puppet grew up in the *nix world, there is a common misconception that it can't be used to effectively manage Windows. This talk hopes to dispel confusion on the matter and demonstrate that Windows can be managed effectively and easily with Puppet. Along with basic how-tos and tips on working with Windows systems using Puppet, Windows specific issues and caveats will be discussed with effective mitigations.
Speaker Bio: James is a recovering sysadmin currently working as a Professional Services Engineer at Puppet Labs. He performs training and advises on configuration and systems management best practices in his day job. Though his focus is primarily on Linux systems, he frequently is tasked to work on Solaris, OS/X, and Windows. He is unafraid to admit that he runs Windows 7 on his primary desktop.
"Building on Puppet and Puppet Forge" by Pedro Pessoa of Server Density at Puppet Camp London 2014. Find the video here: http://puppetlabs.com/community/puppet-camp
With 90% of large organizations already adopting RPA in 2022, chances are you are expanding your UiPath program and not leveraging the advantages of test automation yet.
Traditional manual software testing is a tedious endeavor. It requires multiple tools and an extensive set of activities that force humans to scour application screens, attempt various usage and input combinations, compare results to expected outcomes, and record observations.
Watch this recap to learn how UiPath Test Automation accelerates the quality of every Robotic Process Automation (RPA) or any application before it goes live – enabling teams to launch resilient robots and high-quality software without testing their patience.
Simplify Salesforce Testing with AI-Driven Codeless ToolsSauce Labs
Testing Salesforce Apps presents numerous challenges for enterprise organizations. Teams have to navigate complex architecture, integration workflows, and continuous changes in the customized SFDC implementation, as well as a wide range of different applications hosted on Salesforce Cloud. If left unchecked, these challenges can hamper critical enterprise processes like the revenue-generating Quote to Cash process.
During this webinar, you will learn how to automate functional testing and thoroughly test both the UIs and the APIs in your Salesforce applications using AutonomIQ’s AI-driven codeless tool. We’ll discuss how Aryaka Networks, a global leader in WAN transformation solutions, uses AutonomIQ to autonomously test critical business processes like Quote to Cash in their customized Salesforce application, and we’ll show you how to streamline UI testing to improve test creation, execution, and maintenance, and easily add API testing to your strategy for better coverage.
Key Takeaways:
Simplify the creation of your test scripts using plain English statements and a codeless studio
Learn how to autonomously create UI and API tests for Salesforce and integrations with other applications
Ensure the health of your end-to-end SFDC applications for key business processes like quote to cash
What is DevOps? How can it impact my Customers and my BusinessQualitest
QualiTest and Kubisys help clarify and explain what DevOps can do for you and your business. Experts will shed light on the purpose, the target, the goal and how DevOps can improve your testing process.
For more information visit: www.QualiTestGroup.com
Reducing the complexity of your Enterprise Packaged Application Automation Te...YASH Technologies
Automated testing creates new efficiencies that accelerate the testing cycle and promote software quality. By automating
regression tests and other repetitive tasks, means increased test coverage, better utilization QA resources.
Live Webinar- Making Test Automation 10x Faster for Continuous Delivery- By R...RapidValue
A live webinar hosted by RapidValue Solutions on "Making Test Automation 10X Faster for Continuous Delivery".
Key takeaways:
1. Achieving test automation in a DevOps world
2. Building a business-tailored test automation framework
3. Overcoming limitations of open source tools
4. Case study: Creating 2000+ test cases in less than a month for a product development firm
5. Demo: Zero-code test automation for non-testers using AccuRate ( test automation suite by RapidValue)
Do you have to learn code to create test automation? The answer is no. The latest technology enables business and QA teams to ensure enterprise application quality using easy to maintain, plain English tests. Powerful automated business process discovery, risk based analysis and lights-out regression tests can then be used to extend automation and create additional value – all without code!
Mastering Automation Quality: Exploring UiPath's Test Suite for Seamless Test...DianaGray10
In the rapidly evolving landscape of Intelligent Automation, ensuring the quality and reliability of software processes is paramount. UiPath's Test Suite is a powerful solution designed to streamline and elevate the testing and validation procedures within robotic process automation (RPA).
Join us for an engaging and informative webinar as we provide an overview of UiPath's Test Suite and how this product enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of your Intelligent Automation projects. This webinar will provide attendees with a comprehensive overview of the Test Suite's features, including its intuitive interface for creating and managing test cases, the dynamic debugging capabilities, and its integration with popular RPA workflows.
Led by Matt Hardwick, Automation Consultant, Lydonia Technologies, this webinar will cater to RPA developers, quality assurance professionals, as well as lines of business. Through real-world use cases and demonstrations, participants will gain valuable insights into optimizing their Intelligent Automation testing strategies, accelerating deployment cycles, and ultimately achieving higher levels of confidence in their RPA implementations.
How to Build High-Performing IT Teams - Including New Data on IT Performance ...Puppet
Alanna Brown shares how to build the case for DevOops, align incentives and team members, and implement key technical practices, such as version control, configuration management, continuous integration, and monitoring.
Market Trends: What new developments are shaping the way teams work?
Replacing HP Quality Center?: What hurdles are typically faced in replacing legacy Test Management?
Moving Beyond HP Unified Functional Tester?: What options exist to move to more modern automation tools?
Migration Best Practices: How are leading companies making the switch?
Learn how to establish a greater sense of confidence in your release cycle, along with the practices and processes to create a high-performing engineering culture within your team.
To maximize your Oracle investment and drive innovation, it's important to have a clear understanding of your business goals and how Oracle's technologies can help you achieve them. Start by identifying the Oracle products and services that are most relevant to your needs, and then work with a trusted partner or consultant to develop a comprehensive strategy for implementation and ongoing maintenance.
In this webinar on demand you'll learn how organizations leverage Oracle Cloud support strategies and increase focus on core business processes while boosting end-user satisfaction. We will show some strategies to help you improve response times, leverage the latest functionality, and lower your total cost of ownership. There will be an open Q&A at the end of our session.
IT organisations are measured based on how they mitigate risk and ensure changes adhere to compliance policies. High-performing organisations pull Information Security earlier into the development process by automating compliance tests.
Becoming a high-performing, risk averse organisation is about two things:
• How frequently (and automatically & trivially) you can run compliance assessments;
• and once you discover vulnerabilities, how quickly you can then remediate them.
Are you ready to bridge the gap between DevOps & InfoSec?
The journey to Continuous Automation - Chef AutomateKangaroot
Chef had driven the the Devops revolution, and its platform, Chef platfomr, is the leader in Continuous Automation. Chef visited the Kangaroot offices to show how you can achieve speed, scale and consistency by automating your infrastructure with Chef!
Automating it management with Puppet + ServiceNowPuppet
As the leading IT Service Management and IT Operations Management platform in the marketplace, ServiceNow is used by many organizations to address everything from self service IT requests to Change, Incident and Problem Management. The strength of the platform is in the workflows and processes that are built around the shared data model, represented in the CMDB. This provides the ‘single source of truth’ for the organization.
Puppet Enterprise is a leading automation platform focused on the IT Configuration Management and Compliance space. Puppet Enterprise has a unique perspective on the state of systems being managed, constantly being updated and kept accurate as part of the regular Puppet operation. Puppet Enterprise is the automation engine ensuring that the environment stays consistent and in compliance.
In this webinar, we will explore how to maximize the value of both solutions, with Puppet Enterprise automating the actions required to drive a change, and ServiceNow governing the process around that change, from definition to approval. We will introduce and demonstrate several published integration points between the two solutions, in the areas of Self-Service Infrastructure, Enriched Change Management and Automated Incident Registration.
Simplified Patch Management with Puppet - Oct. 2020Puppet
Does your company struggle with patching systems? If so, you’re not alone — most organizations have attempted to solve this issue by cobbling together multiple tools, processes, and different teams, which can make an already complicated issue worse.
Puppet helps keep hosts healthy, secure and compliant by replacing time-consuming and error prone patching processes with Puppet’s automated patching solution.
Join this webinar to learn how to do the following with Puppet:
Eliminate manual patching processes with pre-built patching automation for Windows and Linux systems.
Gain visibility into patching status across your estate regardless of OS with new patching solution from the PE console.
Ensure your systems are compliant and patched in a healthy state
How Puppet Enterprise makes patch management easy across your Windows and Linux operating systems.
Presented by: Margaret Lee, Product Manager, Puppet, and Ajay Sridhar, Sr. Sales Engineer, Puppet.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
5. • Deliver value to business faster,
more reliably
• Meet compliance requirements
• Adopt DevOps practices
• Adopt new technology while
supporting & sun-setting old
• Too much fire fighting
• Slow deployments
• Scripting & manual
processes aren’t cutting it
• Difficult to keep up with
demands from the business
Common Challenges Key Initiatives
6. Our software
automates the provisioning,
configuration &
ongoing management
of your machines & the applications,
services & software running on them.
7. Deploy code
more frequently30x
Fewer failures60x
50%
Higher
business
growthSource: 2015 State of DevOps Report.
5,000 respondents across 6 continents.
8. Automation Best Practices
Model & Enforce Desired State
Across The Lifecycle
Across All Technologies
From Core Infrastructure Through Applications
14. Where To Start With Automation
Start With Core Infrastructure & Work Up
Core infrastructure configurations
Provisioning
Application infrastructure
Application orchestration
Operating System · NTP · DNS · SSH · Firewall· Firewall· Users· Groups
Bare Metal · VMs · Cloud · Containers
SQL Server · Tomcat · WebSphere · IIS · MySQL
Custom Apps · COTS · Share Services
16. 3,700+ community-contributed modules
Founded in 2005
Over 10 million nodes managed
Deep partnerships with datacenter titans
1000+ enterprise customers
EXPERIENCE
SCALE
ECOSYSTEM
CUSTOMERS
COMMUNITY
BACKING
USERS
Puppet Labs
The leader in IT Automation
30,000+ organizations use Puppet
18. Next Steps
• Download and try Puppet Enterprise:
puppetlabs.com/download
• Contact Us:
sales@puppetlabs.com
Editor's Notes
Sales Presentation Deck – 4Q FY2016 –v7
Puppet Labs exists to reduce the timeline: from the moment you have new technology, to the moment it’s in the hands of your users delivering value. That new technology comes in a few different flavors. First, new applications. Maybe you’re deploying a new application that your team built, tested and is ready to deliver to the business. It might be a new application you bought from a vendor and you’re preparing to roll out to users. Second, new infrastructure. For example, maybe you’re deploying an OpenStack environment or spinning up a new greenfield project in AWS. Third, updates to existing services. Maybe your adding a new set of capabilities to an application the business already relies on. And lastly, configuration updates. Maybe there have been key configuration settings that have drifted from the state they should be in and you need to bring those systems back into compliance. In any case, we help reduce the timeline of getting that update out to your users, and help you do so with the reliability, predictability and repeatability you demand.
What’s interesting though, is that each customer has different timelines at play. When I talk to Wal-Mart, out of the 40+k nodes they manage with Puppet, about 11k of them are on SLES 11, and they are trying to move another 6k from SLES 10 to SLES 11. Puppet helps them reliably reduce that timeline. At a very different looking user like Spotify, the notion of SLES is nearly laughable. We talk to them about how they are managing a sophisticated containerized environment. But as different as the technologies are, the common thread is that both organizations are cycling out older technology and cycling in newer tech and updates – and Puppet helps them do that.
As we work with organizations to accelerate the delivery of value to the business, we see a common set of challenges and critical initiatives organizations use Puppet Enterprise to help address.
[read through key challenges and initiatives that you’ve discovered they are trying to address].
Does this list make sense? Any that shouldn’t be on the list for you? Any that stick out? Any that aren’t on it but should be? [Use this line of questioning to tease out team dynamics and concerns that you should be aware of as you pursue the deal.]
Our software helps you automate the configuration and ongoing management of your machines and the software running on them, so you spend less time fighting fires and more time deploying great software.
We help you make rapid, repeatable changes and automatically enforce the consistency of systems and devices–across physical and virtual machines, on prem or in the cloud.
Before we talk about HOW we do that, let’s spend some time talking about WHY any of it matters. In short, it’s because automating for speed and reliability deliver results.
This is from the most recent State of DevOps survey, the world’s largest, most comprehensive and longest-running DevOps survey. Over the years tens of thousands of people have responded, this last round includes data from 5,000 respondents from 6 continents. There is a whole set of corresponding data we can dig into, but in summary, the high performing teams (that’s to say the teams that automate for speed & repeatability) see significant gains compared to the organizations that don’t.
First off, high performing IT teams that adhere to these devops practices deploy code 30x more frequently than their lower performing counterparts. It’s one thing to move fast, but what’s pretty amazing is that these high performing teams didn’t sacrifice reliability. In fact, they showed that as they deployed more frequently they were able to do so with 60x fewer failures than their lower performing counterparts. We’ll go into some of the tech practices in a little bit that contribute to these gains. And finally, one of the correlations we saw is that organizations with these high performing IT grew more over a 3 year period, to the tune of 50% higher growth (and were 1.5x more profitable than their lower performing counterparts).
The takehome here is that automation and DevOps practices deliver results in driving down the time it takes to get technology to your users in a more reliable way. Let’s talk about what we think are some of the critical best practices to see these sorts of gains.
First, we think it’s critical to adopt automation technology that helps you model and enforce the desired state of the services you deliver.
Second, we think that you should automate those processes (among others) from your core infrastructure up through your applications, all in one place for full enforcement, traceability and auditability.
Third, we think you should automate across the entire lifecycle, from initial provisioning of infrastructure through decommissioning.
Finally, you should do this across everything. If it has an IP address, you should automate the management of it.
Let’s dig into each of these.
Key points. [The minimum points that a rep/SE should make. However, this is a good time to dig into details or have the SE lead a whiteboard discussion about our approach if you know this is an area of interest].
Our declarative, model-driven approach where you focus on defining the desired state of infrastructure, services and apps rather than the programmatic steps it takes to get there.
Once you’ve modeled your infrastructure/apps, we make it possible to test your code to see what happens when you deploy that app update, etc.
We also automate the deployment of that desired state to the infrastructure, and continually enforce that your infrastructure matches your desired state. When it doesn’t we let you know so you can remediate ASAP.
This approach is model once, use everywhere. Once you model your infrastructure and your applications, you can deploy those changes to dev, to test, to staging, to production. It’s the same set of Puppet code that defines your desired state and we make that state so across your deployment tiers – there is no need to rewrite a new set of runbooks to programatically account for all the differences across environments.
And all along the way, you get reports, so whether you want full traceability and insight through your environment or you need to meet audit requirements, you have the data you need about the state of your environments at your fingertips.
Key points. [The minimum points that a rep/SE should make. However, this is a good time to dig into details or have the SE lead a whiteboard discussion about our approach if you know this is an area of interest].
We think that the desired states that you define should not be limited to just an application model, or to just the infrastructure layer like they are with all other technologies. Rather, you should bring automation to your entire stack: from you core infrastructure up through your applications, all in one place for full enforcement, traceability and auditability.
This gives you one solution to model, test, deploy, enforce, remediate and audit.
Plus, our granular access control makes it easy for you to give the proper access to the right teams at each layer so given any application, the right teams have the appropriate authority to change just the portions of the stack that they control. And again, you get full traceability across this so you always know who did what.
Key points. [The minimum points that a rep/SE should make. However, this is a good time to dig into details or have the SE lead a whiteboard discussion about our approach if you know this is an area of interest].
Provisioning is too often a slow process filled with manual steps. You should automate more than just the configuration management of your infrastructure or the orchestration of your apps, and extend automation to go across the entire lifecycle: from initial provisioning of infrastructure through decommissioning.
Over the last few releases we added new provisioning capabilities making it easy to provision
Bare metal and the OSs and hypervisors on those servers
Virtualized environments like spinning up VMs with vSphere
Public cloud infrastructure in AWS and Azure
And Docker, both the Docker engine as well as Docker containers.
Key points. [The minimum points that a rep/SE should make. However, this is a good time to dig into details or have the SE lead a whiteboard discussion about our approach if you know this is an area of interest].
Finally, you should do this across all of your infrastructure.
If it has an IP address you should automate the management of it.
This is just a small set of the technology we support, but it gives you a sense of the different types of infrastructure we help manage.
From public and hybrid cloud services to Windows and Linux servers.
From virtualized environments to containers
From network switches to storage devices.
We think you should have one consistent and repeatable way to model, test, enforce, remediate and audit across your datacenters.
So where do you start?
Start with something straightforward. Start automating the configurations of your core infrastructure. Think things like laying down OSs, configuring them, configuring core things like NTP, DNS and SSH. Things like firewall configurations. Configuring users and groups.
After that, move to application infrastructure. Databases, web servers, app servers.
Then bring automation to your provisioning practices. Whether it’s laying down OSs on bare metal or spinning up new AWS environments, automate provisioning of infrastructure.
And then put all the pieces together and automate application orchestration by modeling and deploying your applications and the services they use.
Puppet deploys and manages desired configuration using a a client-server architecture. The code which defines the desired state is deployed to a central Puppet master server. It is a sort of master blueprint from which the individual configuration of any server in your environment can be derived.
Every server or device under Puppet management runs the Puppet agent software, which continuously monitors and enforces desired state as defined centrally at the master. If the code describing the desired configuration changes on the master, each Puppet agent will automatically update or make changes to its node as necessary to ensure that the enforced configuration on managed systems stays in sync with the central definition.
In the infrastructure as code theme, updating the Puppet code deployed to the master has the effect of updating the configuration of your entire infrastructure.