The document discusses a Puppet Usergroup meetup in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where Walter Heck from OlinData introduces the company and their Puppet consulting services. Heck then discusses how Puppet can help manage infrastructure more efficiently compared to manual configurations and highlights some of Puppet's key advantages. The meetup aims to establish a Puppet usergroup in Southeast Asia and gauge interest in upcoming Puppet training from OlinData.

1. “Little puppet made of pine,
awake. The gift of life is thine.”
March 15th, 2012
KL Puppet Usergroup Meetup #1
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Walter Heck, OlinData

2. Overview
• Introduction OlinData
• Checkup
• Introduction Puppet
• Future of Puppet in South East Asia

3. Introduction OlinData
• OlinData
▫ MySQL Consulting
▫ Tribily Server Monitoring
▫ Puppet training and consulting
• Started in 2008
▫ Setup to be run remotely and location independent
• Started with Puppet in 2010
▫ Official puppetlabs partner since 02-2012
▫ Experience with large, medium and small
infrastructures

4. The big boys using puppet

5. Checkup
• Who is planning to use puppet soon-
ish?
• Who is using puppet in production?
▫ Using ENC? Hiera? Mcollective?
Stored configs? Open source
modules?

6. Old school
# apt-get install openssh-server
web.olindata.com # vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# iptables -A INPUT -p tcp –dport 22 -j ACCEPT
# /etc/init.d/sshd restart
# apt-get install openssh-server
sql.olindata.com # apt-get install openssh-server
# vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config
sql.olindata.com # apt-get install openssh-server
# vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# iptables -A INPUT -p tcp –dport 22 -j ACCEPT
sql.olindata.com # vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# /etc/init.d/sshd restart tcp –dport 22 -j ACCEPT
# iptables -A INPUT -p
# /etc/init.d/sshd restart tcp –dport 22 -j ACCEPT
# iptables -A INPUT -p
# /etc/init.d/sshd restart

7. Puppet to the rescue!
/etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp:
node basenode {
include ssh
}
puppet.olindata.com
class ssh {
package {'openssh-server': ensure => installed }
file {'/etc/ssh/sshd_config':
ensure => present,
source => 'puppet:///modules/ssh/sshd_config',
notify => Service['sshd']
}
firewall { '001 allow ssh':
chain => 'INPUT',
proto => 'tcp',
dport => '22',
action => 'accept',
}
}
node *.olindata.com inherits basenode {
}

8. Puppet Advantages
• Scalability • Replication
• Accountability • Security
• Versioning • Backups

9. Puppet meetup group
• Frequency of meetups?
• Meetup format?
• Main online hangout? (meetup.com / facebook)?
• Puppetcamp Asia is coming in April!

10. OlinData and Puppet
• Training
▫ First training end of April
▫ Cheaper then in the West
▫ KL First, rest of Asia on success
• Consulting
▫ Remote consulting worldwide
▫ Ongoing handson engineering
▫ Start from scratch or improve existing environment

11. Questions?

12. Walter Heck (walterheck@olindata.com)
Choon Ming Goh (choonming@olindata.com)
@choonming
@walterheck
http://www.olindata.com
Puppetcamp coming to KL middle of April (keep
the 15th free)!
First training end of April!