This document summarizes Puppet, an infrastructure automation tool. It discusses how Puppet can help sysadmins by enabling more frequent, reliable changes through configuration management. It outlines Puppet's capabilities like defining infrastructure as code, testing changes, enforcing configurations, and gaining insights. It also introduces Puppet Enterprise and its features for advanced capabilities, node management, provisioning, code management, and support for common infrastructure components.

1. Nigel Kersten
@nigelkersten
nigel@puppetlabs.com

2. Polls

3. Being a sysadmin is hard enough

4. More critical than ever

5. Must be faster, more focused

6. All kinds of cloud

7. Immutable Infrastructure

8. More Reliable
2x the change success rate
12x faster MTTR
More Agile
30x more frequent deployments
8,000x faster lead times than peers
IT Performance Matters

10. Automate IT
Make rapid, repeatable changes and enforce the consistency
of systems and devices.

11. Users · Groups · Firewall
DNS · NTP · SSH
Kernel Settings · Files
Packages · Services
Repositories · Mounts
Jobs · Scheduling
Virtual & Cloud
Network & Storage
Applications
Operating Systems

12. Define Test Enforce Report
service { 'ssh':
ensure => running,
enable => true,
}
Define the desired state using a
powerful, declarative language.
The Puppet Approach

13. Test changes before you deploy them
Define Test Enforce Report
The Puppet Approach

14. Enforce changes and
remediate configuration drift
The Puppet Approach
Define Test Enforce Report

15. Gain insight into your
infrastructure
The Puppet Approach
Define Test Enforce Report

16. Define desired state
How it Works
Puppet Fundamentals

17. Simple Code

18. Basic Primitives Included

19. First Class Windows

20. Node Cycle

21. PuppetDB for Central Data

22. Define desired state
How it Works
Advanced Capabilities

23. Next generation architecture to enable greater scalability, more
resiliency, greater insight and simpler integration
Next Gen Puppet Server

24. Razor for Provisioning

25. MCollective for Execution

26. Hiera for Code/Data

27. r10k for Deployment

28. Open Source Puppet 4.0 Now Available!
All-in-One Agent
Language Enhancements
Open Source Puppet

29. Open Source Puppet 4.0
All-in-One
Agent
File System
Layout
Language
Enhancements
Simple, streamlined experience deploying
Puppet software
Everything is in the same location across
products
Consistent, smarter and with more
compact, readable code

30. Language Enhancements
Delivers more power, expressiveness
and greater reliability
Rewritten parser & evaluator
Consistent, smarter language
Puppet Catalog Preview

31. Optional Types

32. Gareth Rushgrove
Iteration

33. Node
Management
Purpose-built applications focused on solving IT automation challenges in
new, innovative ways
Configuration
Management
Application
Management
Operational
Management
Code
Management
Open Source Components - Puppet Enterprise Core - Agent Technology
And over 3,000 more integrations, extensions, and other content
Puppet Enterprise
Puppet Apps

34. Rule-based classifier for managing a large volume of
frequently-changing systems
Puppet Enterprise
Node Manager

35. Puppet Enterprise
Automated Provisioning
Accelerate provisioning across containers, cloud & bare metal

36. Install and manage Docker quickly and easily, just by including the
Puppet Docker module

37. Describe security groups and ELB load balancers, and help audit
changes to your network within AWS

38. Define AWS Autoscaling Groups as well as CloudWatch alarms to
trigger scaling up and down

39. Describe your Route53 DNS all in the Puppet DSL

40. » be rake spec
AWS arbiter
should compile into a catalogue without dependency cycles
should contain exactly 9 Ec2_instance resources
web servers
should contain EC2-instance[web1] with region => "us-west-1" and type => "t2.micro"
should contain EC2-instance[web2] with region => "us-west-1" and type => "t2.micro"
should contain EC2-instance[web3] with region => "us-west-1" and type => "t2.micro"
application servers
should contain EC2-instance[app1] with region => "us-west-1" and type => "c4.large"
should contain EC2-instance[app2] with region => "us-west-1" and type => "c4.large"
should contain EC2-instance[app3] with region => "us-west-1" and type => "c4.large"
should contain EC2-instance[app4] with region => "us-west-1" and type => "c4.large"
database servers
should contain EC2-instance[db1] with region => "us-west-1" and type => "r3.large"
should contain EC2-instance[db2] with region => "us-west-1" and type => "r3.large"
Finished in 0.26288 seconds
11 examples, 0 failures
Unit test your AWS infrastructure code and
enforce policy across your organisation

41. Puppet Enterprise
Code Manager
Development
Testing
Production
Manage infrastructure as code more efficiently
across environments

42. Granular role-based access control for delegation of management
capabilities across teams & individuals
Segment nodes so that tasks can be safely delegated
Ease the administration of users
Integrates directly with AD & OpenLDAP
Puppet Enterprise
Role-Based Access Control

43. A profiler & metrics service tracks key metrics associated
with Puppet Server health & performance
Puppet Enterprise
Puppet Server Reporting

44. Understand the impact of change in your environment
Puppet Enterprise
Event Inspection

45. Support for critical and common infrastructure, focused on
heterogeneity
F5 support includes both SOAP and
REST modules
Microsoft modules include Windows
ACL, Windows Powershelgl and MS
SQL modules
More available on the Puppet Forge
Puppet Enterprise
Puppet Supported Modules

46. Puppet Enterprise
Upgrade Faster
Take Advantage of Puppet Enterprise Innovation

47. Define desired state
So What?

48. Deploy code 30x more frequently
With 50% fewer failures
Contribute to 50 % higher market
cap growth over three years
Source: 2014 State of DevOps Report
Impact of High Performing IT

49. “Puppet Enterprise allows us to make wide
sweeping infrastructure changes.”
“The constant discussion between software and infrastructure
teams really helps us proactively find issues before
deploying to production.”
“With Puppet, you can turn things up in minutes
where it used to be months.”
Change Agents of IT Ops

50. Next Steps

51. puppetlabs.com/learn
Learn Online

52. forge.puppetlabs.com
The Puppet Forge

53. Fundamentals
3-day course
Practitioners
3-day, advanced level course
Architect
3-day, advanced course
Learn the right way to manage an
infrastructure
Learn why you should manage your
Puppet infrastructure the right way
Learn how to design your own infrastructure and
define your own right way to implement Puppet
Training & Certification

54. docs.puppetlabs.com
Check out the Docs

55. Make Puppet Better

56. Learn from others
Ask/Answer questions
•ask.puppetlabs.com
•mailing lists
•IRC
Help fix bugs
Contribute code
Contribute modules
puppetlabs.com/community
Plug in and get Involved

57. We’re Hiring
puppetlabs.com/about/careers

59. Questions?
Thank You!
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