PuppetCamp SEA @ Blk 71 - Puppet: The Year That Was

Puppet Camp SE Asia - Dec 2012
The Year That Was
Nigel Kersten, CTO/Product
nigel@puppetlabs.com, @nigelkersten, IRC: nigelk

Monday, December 3, 12

Community Growth

metric 2011 2012
Mailing List members ~ 600 ~ 1200

List messages/month ~ 600 ~ 1200

IRC channel members ~ 400 ~ 800

Puppet forks/watchers 200 forks, 425 forks,
on GitHub 400 watchers 1000 watchers

Forge Modules 50 modules over 650 modules

PuppetCamps ~3 ~ 15


PuppetConf 2012 - San Francisco

• Over 750 attendees, 75 sessions, 71 speakers


Puppet Certiﬁcation Launched

• Validate your Puppet knowledge
• Puppet Professional
• Puppet Developer
• http://puppetlabs.com/services/certiﬁcation


The Year That Was - Changes at Puppet Labs

• Parallel Value Streams
– Puppet Enterprise, Open Source/Platform, Forge
– Product, Design and Engineering

• New Ofﬁce in Portland
• New Ofﬁce in London
• New Community Manager - Dawn Foster
– Metrics Geek: http://puppetlabs.com/community/metrics/
– dawn@puppetlabs.com
– @geekygirldawn
– IRC: DawnFoster


Semantic Versioning

• SemVer commitment for all products
– http://semver.org
• For version “x.y.z”
– x: Major
• Compatibility-breaking changes
– y: Minor
• New, backwards-compatible features
– z: Patch
• Bug ﬁxes, no other behavioral/functional changes


Puppet 3.0.x

• Improved performance
• Reduced memory footprint
• Dynamic variable scope removed
– Simple: Local -> Inherited -> Node -> Global

• ENC authoritative over agent environment (#3910)
• pluginsync
• Data bindings for class parameters


Puppet 3.0.x

• Ruby 1.9.3 support added
• Ruby 1.8.5 support removed
• Centos/RHEL 5 users stuck on Ruby 1.8.5?
– Use Puppet Labs Ruby 1.8.7 packages


Puppet 3.0.x

• Lots of changes
• Awesome new Reference Manual
– http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3/reference/
– Read the release notes and upgrade guide!


Hiera 1.x

• Key/Value data store for configuration data
• Keeps site-specific data out of manifests
• Avoids repetition
• Configurable hierarchy based on Fact values
• Automatic data binding source for Puppet 3.0


Data bindings for class parameters


Forge

• Dedicated Team
• Brand new architecture
• GitHub Issues integration
• Module Tool part of Puppet
• Dependency Resolution


Forge


MCollective 2.x

• Direct Addressing
• Discovery Plugins
• Stability and Security
• Chained command piping

$ mco rpc package status package=mcollective -j
| jgrep "data.properties.ensure=2.0.0-6.el6"
| mco rpc puppetd runonce


PuppetDB 1.x

• Source of truth for Puppet-generated data
• 100% compatible storeconﬁgs replacement
• 100% compatible inventory service replacement
• Stores entire catalog and all the facts
• Vastly increased performance
• Written in Clojure, runs on the JVM
• Heavily Instrumented


PuppetDB 1.x


PuppetDB Future

• Report Storage
• Historical Catalogs
• Historical Facts


Puppet Enterprise 2.x

• Pre-conﬁgured Complete Stack
– Puppet, MCollective, Hiera, Enterprise Console and all dependencies

• Graphical Orchestration
– Automatically created GUIs for MCollective Agents

• Console Auth
– Authenticate against Active Directory, OpenLDAP, Google Apps
– Pre-conﬁgured Roles: Read-Only, Read-Write, Administrator

• Cloud Provisioning
– Amazon EC2, VMware VSphere

• PE 2.7 - Node Request Management!
– Graphical signing of new nodes


Puppet Enterprise 2.6 - Console Auth


Puppet Enterprise 2.7 - Node Request Management


Questions?


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