The document discusses the effectiveness of using Puppet and PowerShell for managing Windows servers, emphasizing the advantages of automation over manual tasks. It highlights the concepts of infrastructure as code, immutable infrastructures, and the integration of these tools to streamline server management. Ultimately, it concludes that code significantly improves the management of Windows servers.

1. Windows: Having It’s Ass
Kicked by Puppet and
PowerShell since 2012
Paul Stack
http://www.paulstack.co.uk
http://twitter.com/stack72
mail: puppetconf@paulstack.co.uk
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2. About Me
Develop software for OpenTable
Member of the Jetbrains Development Academy
DevOps Extremist
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3. PaurShell
This is actually the Northern Irish pronunciation of the
Windows task based framework, PowerShell
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4. Agenda
Classic infrastructure management
Snowflake / Phoenix Servers / Immutable Infrastructure
Infrastructure as Code
PowerShell as a way to manage Windows
PowerShell + Puppet = Kicking Windows’ Ass
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5. Classic Infrastructure
Management
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6. “The Run book”
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7. People are generally rubbish
at performing manual
repetitive tasks
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8. SnowFlake Server
Image courtesy of Liz West and under Creative Commons License
Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SnowflakeServer.html
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9. Machines are much more
reliable at performing
repetitive tasks
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10. Image courtesy of FoodBev Photos and under Creative Commons License
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11. Can’t we automate our
manual run books?
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12. Infrastructure As Code
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13. Phoenix Servers
Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PhoenixServer.html
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14. ChaosMonkey
Chaos Monkey: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-into-wild.html
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15. Immutable infrastructure
Chad Fowler: http://chadfowler.com/blog/2013/06/23/immutable-deployments/
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16. Code Is Better
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17. What can we do on
Windows?
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19. Managing Windows Server
2008 with PowerShell
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20. Puppet on Windows
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21. Types Available
file
user
group
scheduled_task
package
service
exec
host
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22. Puppet + PowerShell =
Windows Tap Out
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23. Puppet Forge
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24. Puppet integration with
Windows will get better and
better
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25. Summary
Code is much better for managing servers than people
PowerShell is a tool to use when working with
Windows
Puppet compliments what PowerShell does perfectly in
a DSL format
Windows Server management is no longer a pain in the
ass.
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26. Further Information
http://forge.puppetlabs.com/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/
http://github.com/opentable/puppet-iis
http://github.com/opentable/puppet-windowsfeature
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