Portable infrastructure with Puppet can be achieved through Puppet, an open source automation platform created by Puppet Labs to configure and manage infrastructure. Puppet provides a high-level language and reusable modules to standardize infrastructure and reduce maintenance costs. Puppet Labs is working to improve Puppet's performance, features, and usability while expanding its capabilities for infrastructure management and code sharing through new services like the Puppet Forge module repository. The goal is to enable collaboration and reuse of Puppet configurations across organizations through portable modules and tools.

1. Portable
Infrastructu
re with
Puppet
Luke Kanies
Founder of Puppet project
Founder and CEO of Puppet Labs

2. The state of
Puppet

3. Puppet is stable

4. Puppet is
changing quickly
• Still plenty of features to add
• Every day we learn, and every lesson brings a
refactoring
• Maturity brings its own design requirements
• Connectiveness is a larger priority

5. Puppet is
Pervasive
Web Entertainment Technology
Financial
Defense

6. I promised some
things last year

7. Puppet Camp
2009 Promises
•1.0
•WebGUI
•Modules

8. Rowlf is imminent

9. 0.2

10. 0
0.2

11. 1.0

12. 0
1.0

13. 2.6

14. Lots of
refactoring, and a
lot of features

15. Pure Ruby DSL

16. Class Parameters

17. Finished migration
to REST
Still working on publishing all of the
formats and URLs

18. The single
executable shift
puppetmasterd puppet master
puppetd puppet agent
puppetca puppet cert
ralsh puppet resource
puppetdoc puppet doc

19. More informative
reports
Heavily trimmed

20. Exposing types
and classes

21. Faster in many
ways
• Compiles are much faster
• File serving is streamed (thanks Brice!)
• Lots of small improvements

22. Relationship
syntax

23. Hashes

24. Taught us a lot
about how (not) to
release

25. “Web GUI”
Dashboard is
growing and
prospering

26. Node classification

27. Reporting

28. Lots to come
• Automatically detect optional and required
parameters
• Catalog and report correlation
• Discovery
• Harass Rein for more information!

29. Let’s go Back

30. Why does Puppet
exist?

31. Embarrassment

32. Fear

33. A simple dream:
That sysadmins
could reuse code

34. Enable focus on
the value-add
Usually
Ideally
0 25.0 50.0 75.0 100.0
Things you have to do
Things you want to do

35. The Problem
}
• No standardization
Every • 75% of IT budgets spent
infrastructure to maintain existing
systems
starts from
• Code changes with the
scratch sysadmin

36. We needed a
high-level
language for

37. Shell scripts are
assembly code
Programmin
SysAdmin
g
Low-level,
non- Assembly perl/shell/etc
portable,
single-use
Abstract,
portable, C* Puppet
reusable
* For small values of
abstract

38. So: The ultimate
goal was code
reuse

39. We’ve built a
platform that can
enable reuse

40. Now we just need
to start sharing

41. Announcing:
Puppet Forge
http://forge.puppetlabs.com
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/
module-site

42. Share the modules
you’ve created

43. Find modules
others have

44. Client-side tools

45. Extension
metadata is

46. Minimum Viable
Product (MVP)

47. It’s all about code
reuse

48. Westheimer's Discovery:
A couple of months
in the laboratory can
frequently save

49. Luke’s Corollary:
A couple of months
of development can
frequently save a couple of
hours on the internet.

50. Collaborate on
existing code
rather than

51. Or, start again and
publish

52. A new forcing
function in

53. Because there’s
now a place for
all that metadata:
• Classes, definitions, nodes, etc.
• Required and optional parameters
• Versions
• Dependencies

54. Drives further
introspection
in Puppet

55. We can add:
• Portability
information - ‘confine’
in classes and modules
• Incompatibilities
• “Tested on” information
• Etc.

56. Pushes Dashboard
to manage
modules

57. Package-like
behaviour in the
modules

58. Fills out the
product portfolio
•The industry-leading open source automation platform
Puppet •Supported with subscription
Puppet •A graphical view into your Puppet infrastructure
•A simplified interface for many configuration actions
Dashboard
•Collaborate with other IT administrators on Puppet content
Puppet Forge •Access Puppet Labs supported modules

59. Any
Question