It’s been a big year for Puppet Enterprise. If you’re an existing customer, curious about PE, or you’re happy with your Puppet open-source deployment, join the PE product management team for a discussion about what’s new. We’ll cover running puppet on-demand from the web console plus unmanaged package discovery, vulnerability remediation, and management. Code Manager is easier than ever to setup and connect with your pipeline of choice with integrations like the Jenkins Pipelines plugin. The team will take you through an end-to-end workflow, answer your questions, and demonstrate any late breaking features arriving just in time for PuppetConf.

1. Company Confidential / NDA Only
Puppet Roadmap
October 2017

2. Puppet Enterprise
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3. Know what you
have
Control it and
enforce consistency
Secure it and
keep it compliant
Modernize it
An automatic way to …
Using a common language
Across everything, no matter where it runs

4. Orchestrate deployments using visual tools
Create, run, and monitor deployment jobs entirely from within the Puppet Enterprise UI

5. Scalable Orchestration Architecture
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6. Awareness to remediation
● Package version management via PE
● Vulnerability remediation with tenable.io

7. Inspect unmanaged software packages
Gain situational awareness into what you have running & identify security issues faster

8. Package inspection
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9. Package inspection
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10. Package inspection
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11. Tech preview: Vulnerability inspection
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12. Tech preview: Vulnerability inspection
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13. Puppet Enterprise Support Lifecycle

15. Puppet Tasks
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16. Puppet Forge with Tasks Puppet Task Runner Puppet Enterprise Task Manager
Start with Puppet Task
Runner and you can...
run a single command: $bolt
run an inline shell script
transfer files
install puppet
run puppet resource
run a Puppet task
run a Puppet task plan
It's standalone and simple to use
Single download - no agent or puppet
infrastructure required
Puppet Tasks
Start with Puppet Enterprise,
and you can...
Pick up from Puppet Task Engine
and...
delegate running tasks via RBAC
see an audit history of past
orchestration jobs
scale to 10K’s of nodes
Drive automation with a GUI workflow,
command-line or API
Start with an automation
problem, and you can...
learn about Puppet Tasks
find modules with pre-built tasks
read in-line documentation about tasks
download the puppet development kit
learn how to author tasks
contribute tasks as puppet modules
Unified alongside Puppet modules

17. CONFIDENTIAL – DO NOT DISTRIBUTE
Puppet Enterprise: Task Setup

18. Orchestrate deployments using visual tools
Create, run, and monitor deployment jobs entirely from within the Puppet Enterprise UI

19. CONFIDENTIAL – DO NOT DISTRIBUTE
Puppet Enterprise: Task Execution

20. CONFIDENTIAL – DO NOT DISTRIBUTE
Puppet Enterprise: Task Results

22. Puppet Platform, Bolt &
Ecosystem
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23. Puppet Task Runner
Puppet Task Runner CLI - "bolt"

24. More ways to deploy Puppet Enterprise
Run Puppet Enterprise in the cloud with marketplace images and deployment templates
Azure
● Updated Azure Marketplace offering
● Azure Stack marketplace offering coming soon
AWS
● AWS pay-as-you-go image (metered billing)
● New CloudFormation template for deploying
new Puppet Enterprise servers in VPCs fully
autonomously

25. Manage (more) Azure infrastructure
azure_vm { 'ssd-example':
ensure => present,
location => 'centralus',
image =>
'Canonical:UbuntuServer:16.10:latest',
user => 'azureuser',
password => 'Password_!',
size => 'Standard_DS1_v2',
resource_group => 'puppetvms',
storage_account_type => 'Premium_LRS',
}
The updated Azure module
● Disk storage improvements
● Better support for networking
● Azure tags

26. Manage container platforms and applications
Container platforms
Distributed container applications Helm
Docker
The official puppetlabs/docker module
● Replaces puppetlabs/docker_platform module
● Now supports Code Manager!
New features
● Deploy distributed container applications with Docker
services.
● Support for Docker configuration secrets
Kubernetes
Deploy and manage Kubernetes
● From new compute resource to Kubernetes cluster in
one step
● Deploy Kubernetes controllers and workers
Deploy apps on Kubernetes
● Deploy distributed apps on Kubernetes with Helm
● Deploy and manage the Helm service and repositories

27. Standardize the delivery and
operation of all of your software
Recent Enhancements
● Language enhancements to make Puppet language
more powerful and expressive
● Supported modules to extend automation across your
data center
● Launch of Puppet Development Kit (PDK)
What’s next
● Puppet Development Kit 1.2 release
● New Resource API for easy type & provider development
Using a
common language

28. VSCode Puppet Plugin now available

29. Technology Alliance Partner Program
New partnerships and integrations to deliver joint value to customers

30. Puppet 5 Platform
● New unified major major versions and release cadence
● Backwards compatibility to 3.x agents and 4.x modules
● Performance improvements via JSON and Ruby updates
● Internationalization support and UTF-8 clean Puppet
Puppet Platform
Puppet Agent Puppet Server PuppetDB
Puppet Platform

31. Hiera 5
Puppet PlatformPuppet Platform
Even easier to extend and understand
● Greater visibility of where data comes from
● Per-environment data hierarchies
● Data hierarchies included in Puppet modules
● Easy to make use of external data sources

32. Japanese localization v2
New features translated in Japanese:
● Puppet agent runs
● Puppet Task Management
● Text-based installer
● Puppet Access
● Module READMEs for Apache, Azure,
PostgreSQL; MySQL error and info
messages
● Learning VM
● Code Manager User Guide