This document provides an introduction to Puppet Enterprise. It begins with an agenda for the meeting which includes an introduction to Puppet Enterprise and a live demo. It then introduces the speakers. It discusses how Puppet Enterprise helps companies become great software companies by automating tasks for speed, reliability and security across devices and through software stacks. It shows a demo of how Puppet Enterprise works with nodes requesting configurations and reporting. It recommends starting with automating core infrastructure before moving to application infrastructure and orchestration. Finally, it provides next steps for getting a demo, downloading Puppet Enterprise, and accessing training resources.

1. Introduction to Puppet
Enterprise
The shortest path to better software.

2. Agenda
Meet our speakers
Introduction to Puppet Enterprise
Puppet Enterprise live demo
Now what?
Q+A

3. Welcome and Introductions
Caspian Alderman
Senior Account Representative
Grace Andrews
Technical Solutions Engineer
Abir Majumdar
Technical Solutions Engineer

4. Every company
is a software company.

5. It feels like
a breaking point.

6. Change
is necessary.

7. We help great companies:
Become great software companies
Deliver fantastic experiences to their users
Provide better software, faster
And do it simply, at scale and securely

8. Why people choose us:
Proven success
Leading platform
The standard
Bridge to the future

9. Automate for speed, reliability and security
Define with a common
language
Gain situational
awareness
Orchestrate change
intelligently
Ensure security &
compliance
What’s needed to deliver and operate modern software simply, at scale and securely
Across devices, through the stack

10. Across devices, through the stack
If it has an IP address, we want to manage it with Puppet

11. Customer success
“We can turn this stuff around really fast,
because we’ve done a good job building the
configurations within Puppet. We’re keeping pace
with our development teams as they roll out new
functionality for our business. People are amazed at
how quickly we turn things around.”
Jeff Quaintance,
SENIOR CLOUD & AUTOMATION ENGINEER
Staples
From many weeks to one week;
from days to minutes
Develop and install time

12. Ready to see it in action?

13. How Puppet Enterprise Works

14. A Puppet Run
14Getting Up and Running with the Windows Module Pack
1. Define
3. Enforce
2. Simulate4. Report

15. Classic Mode: nodes ask for new config every 30 mins
2.
Catalog
3.
Report
1.
Facts

16. Direct Mode: nodes stay in last good state until...
1. Cached
Catalog
2.
Report

17. Where to start with automation
Start with core infrastructure and work up
Provisioning
Bare metal ● Virtual environments ● Cloud ● Containers
Application infrastructure
SQL server ● Tomcat ● WebSphere ● IIS ● MySQL
Core infrastructure
Operating system ● NTP ● DNS ● SSH ● Firewall ● Users ● Groups
Application orchestration
Custom apps ● COTS ● Share services

18. Next Steps
• Contact Sales to get a personalized demo: puppet.com/company/contact-
sales
• Get Puppet Enterprise for free on up to 10 nodes: puppet.com/download-
puppet-enterprise
• Check out our Learning VM: puppet.com/download-learning-vm
• View our self-paced trainings: learn.puppet.com
• Search the Forge: forge.puppet.com

19. Questions?