This document provides an agenda for a presentation on Puppet Enterprise for automating infrastructure. The presentation will include an introduction to why automation is needed, a demo of Puppet Enterprise, and a Q&A. It will discuss how Puppet Enterprise can help organizations reduce timelines, meet compliance, adopt new technologies while supporting old ones, and prevent firefighting by automating provisioning, configuration, and management across all infrastructure through modeling and enforcing a desired state.
The term cloud computing is being used more and more, but what is it and why should you understand it? In this free webinar we will explain what cloud computing means, define the different types, discuss how it is impacting nonprofits and libraries, and outline some criteria for use. The challenges of using the “cloud” will be discussed, as well as whether cloud computing will simplify your life and reduce software and IT staffing costs.
Hear from Anna Jaeger, Co-Director, GreenTech at TechSoup Global, and Peter Campbell, Nonprofit Technologist at Earthjustice, who will help you understand this topic in order to better communicate with your consultants, staff and board. This webinar is applicable for any size organization and ideal for decision makers who need to communicate about cloud computing with tech consultants, and who are interested in making more informed technology decisions.
Направление DevOps зародилось совсем недавно, термин вошел в обиход несколько лет назад, и сейчас тема DevOps набирает популярность очень быстро. При этом суть работы специалистов для многих остается тайной. Антон рассказал, кто эти люди на самом деле, чем занимаются, какие задачи решают, как они это делают и, самое главное, почему это так важно.
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.
Accelerating software delivery with AWSRob Greenwood
Slides from a recent talk I gave at the DevOps Exchange Manchester, as part of the Digital City Festival 2020.
Theme: Empowering developers in the cloud.
Development teams are increasingly measured on features delivered, yet considerable time and effort is lost on unplanned (recovery) work.
I discuss how and why continuous delivery helps businesses accelerate their software delivery, and how to implement a continuous delivery pipeline using native AWS DevOps tooling.
If you're new to Puppet Enterprise, this is the webinar for you.
You'll learn why thousands of companies rely on Puppet to automate the delivery and operation of their software, and see it in action with a live demo.
We cover how to use Puppet Enterprise to:
- Gain situational awareness and drive change with confidence
- Orchestrate changes to infrastructure and applications
- Continually enforce your desired state and remediate any unexpected changes
- Get real-time visibility and reporting to prove compliance
The term cloud computing is being used more and more, but what is it and why should you understand it? In this free webinar we will explain what cloud computing means, define the different types, discuss how it is impacting nonprofits and libraries, and outline some criteria for use. The challenges of using the “cloud” will be discussed, as well as whether cloud computing will simplify your life and reduce software and IT staffing costs.
Hear from Anna Jaeger, Co-Director, GreenTech at TechSoup Global, and Peter Campbell, Nonprofit Technologist at Earthjustice, who will help you understand this topic in order to better communicate with your consultants, staff and board. This webinar is applicable for any size organization and ideal for decision makers who need to communicate about cloud computing with tech consultants, and who are interested in making more informed technology decisions.
Направление DevOps зародилось совсем недавно, термин вошел в обиход несколько лет назад, и сейчас тема DevOps набирает популярность очень быстро. При этом суть работы специалистов для многих остается тайной. Антон рассказал, кто эти люди на самом деле, чем занимаются, какие задачи решают, как они это делают и, самое главное, почему это так важно.
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.
Accelerating software delivery with AWSRob Greenwood
Slides from a recent talk I gave at the DevOps Exchange Manchester, as part of the Digital City Festival 2020.
Theme: Empowering developers in the cloud.
Development teams are increasingly measured on features delivered, yet considerable time and effort is lost on unplanned (recovery) work.
I discuss how and why continuous delivery helps businesses accelerate their software delivery, and how to implement a continuous delivery pipeline using native AWS DevOps tooling.
If you're new to Puppet Enterprise, this is the webinar for you.
You'll learn why thousands of companies rely on Puppet to automate the delivery and operation of their software, and see it in action with a live demo.
We cover how to use Puppet Enterprise to:
- Gain situational awareness and drive change with confidence
- Orchestrate changes to infrastructure and applications
- Continually enforce your desired state and remediate any unexpected changes
- Get real-time visibility and reporting to prove compliance
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?
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
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.
User expectations have changed over the last decade. Customers today expect access to their applications and data from all devices (mobile, laptop, desktop, tablet, etc.) with similar performance from any of those devices at all times of the day. In a world of growing complexity where architects and application designers are dependent on 3rd party providers to delivering part (or at time entire) of the application how does one ensure consistent delivery of performance. This presentation provides a view of some of the challenges involved and how not to make costly mistakes.
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.
Accenture DevOps: Delivering applications at the pace of businessAccenture Technology
Are you ready to shift to continuous delivery? DevOps, a leading software engineering innovation, makes this shift possible by bringing business, development and operation teams together to streamline IT and applying more automated processes.
Are you ready to shift to continuous delivery? DevOps, a leading software engineering innovation, makes this shift possible by bringing business, development and operation teams together to streamline IT and applying more automated processes.
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.
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 Applied Materials Deploys Faster SAP® Projects and Boosts Quality with Wo...Worksoft
How Applied Materials Deploys Faster SAP® Projects and Boosts Quality with Worksoft Test Automation
https://www.worksoft.com/events/how-applied-materials-deploys-faster-sap-projects-and-boosts-quality-with-test-automation
This webinar was held live on March 4th, 2021. Watch the on demand recording here: https://curiositysoftware.ie/resources/democratisation-testing-webinar/
Learn how Infuse, Kumoco and Curiosity enabled rigorous in-sprint test automation at a large telecommunications company. BAs, Testers and Developers at the telco now collaborate to build visual flows of the system logic in-sprint. The easy-to-maintain diagrams generate complete SIT and E2E tests for the latest business processes, rigorously testing before every rapid release.
To overcome siloes and overly-manual processes, Infuse, Kumoco and Curiosity built a “telecommunications-company-in-a-box”, a digital twin of the system under test. Artifacts created by BA’s were imported to build complete business flows, providing a single source of truth for the systems in scope. The flows were then used to generate rigorous tests in seconds, and were further used by developers and testers to build CI/CD assets. This generated a complete set of artifacts across the SDLC, while allowing every stakeholder to use their favourite tools.
Join Infuse, Kumoco and Curiosity live to see this cutting-edge approach to in-sprint design, development and testing in action. You will discover how:
1. Slow and siloed system design and test creation were replaced by test generation for useMango, with matching test cases generated in Jira.
2. Risk-based test generation identified exactly what to test in short sprints, overcoming the challenge of having more in a system than you could ever test in-sprint.
3. The rigorous automation is now maintained in-sprint, updating tests across tools as the business customize processes in BPMN-style diagrams.
4. The business know that their changes will be validated rigorously before each release, optimizing test generation for time and risk and defining reliably when testing is ‘done’.
This webinar was held live on March 4th, 2021. Watch the on demand recording here: https://curiositysoftware.ie/resources/democratisation-testing-webinar/
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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.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
"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.
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.
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
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
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/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
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
17. 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.
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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.