PuppetLabs has experienced significant growth in 2013 with employee headcount doubling, customer countries increasing by 40%, and office space tripling. Usage of Puppet has also increased substantially with Twitter followers, IRC population, and Github watchers all up significantly. Puppet code has been improved with features like data separation, lazy loading of plugins, returning memory to the OS after runs, and deterministic resource ordering. The Forge has seen major increases in the number of modules, users and daily downloads. Training efforts have expanded to over 3000 students across many countries with new courses planned.

1. State of the Union

2. Dan Bode
dan@puppetlabs
bodepd on <twitter,freenode>

3. But first:
Quick Surveys

4. PuppetLabs: by the numbers
2013
Statistics 2012 Drift
Drift
Employees 55 110
Customer Countries 29 42
office space 9,000 sq/ft 25,000
sq/ft

5. Twitter Followers
(@puppetlabs)

6. Puppet
2012

7. Users List
Membership

8. IRC Population
(#puppet)

9. Github watchers
puppetlabs/puppet

10. Another awesome
book!

11. Open Pull
Requests

12. Data Separation
• Class parameters perform external lookups
• No manifest changes needed
• Uses Hiera as the back-end

13. Puppet Module
Tool
Integrates with the forge out-of-the-box
Ships as a part of core

14. Ruby 1.9.3
Now fully supported!!!!

15. Variable Scope
No more dynamic scope
Top Scope
No more deprecation warnings
Simple scoping rules Node
Parent
Local

16. Extension
improvements
plugins are lazy loaded
--pluginsync on by default
Puppet extensions can be loaded from gems

17. Performance
Improvements
Daemon mode used to grow and grow...
Now, we return memory to the OS after every run
Performance was an emphasis of 2012

18. PuppetDB
performant back-end replacement for storeconfigs
well defined API for extracting data

19. Semantic Versions
All projects conform to semantic versioning

20. Puppet
2013

21. class containment
intuitive dependency rules for classes within classes
Make the anchor pattern unnecessary

22. resource ordering
2.7 introduced deterministic ordering of catalogs
based on some hashing algorithm (not predictable by users)
why not default to parse order?

23. documented APIs
lots of work for in-code docs
specify public vs. private methods

24. Forge

25. By the Numbers
Jan 2012 Jan 2013
Statistics
Drift Drift
Modules 260 750+
Users 930 2000+
Daily Downloads 500 2200

26. 2012
dedicated team
shows download counts
more visible documentation

27. 2013
publishing API
better search tools
more than manifests

28. Certification
http://www.etsy.com/listing/48286873/graduate-finger-puppet

29. 2012
Launched Puppet Professional Cert at PuppetConf
110 Puppet professionals!
(I’m #28)
Launched Beta for Puppet Developer
need more test takers!!!

30. 2013
Puppet Developer certification should go live!
More Puppet certified professionals.
get certified today!

31. Training
Text
http://www.curriemuseum.ca/site-content/uploads/2011/09/Laura-with-puppet-for-blog.jpg

32. Training Numbers
~ 3000 students trained

33. Trainings by
Country
www.traveltip.or

34. Current Courses
Puppet Fundamentals
Advanced Puppet

35. Upcoming Courses
Puppet Fundamentals 2.0
Extending Puppet Using Ruby
Ruby Primer for Puppet development
Online courses (what is puppet, introduction to
forge)

36. Puppet Education
training/cert tracks

37. Enterprise

38. 2013
release management tools
* built on puppetdb report storage
change visualization
looking for user information about change
management!