PuppetCamp SEA @ Blk 71 - Puppet: The Year That Was

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Nigel Kersten started off the day with a very interesting and informative talk about the past, current and future of Puppet. He showed Puppet's link with the worldwide tech community and how they plan to make the Puppet experience even better. He also gave updates on what Puppet Labs has done recently, as well as elaborated on the improvements of Puppet 3.0, Puppet DB and Puppet Enterprise. Nigel also mentioned that Puppet Labs is still dedicated on fixing any issues that any updates or the community may have, and that the company also hopes to improve things moving towards the future.

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Puppet Camp SE Asia - Dec 2012The Year That Was

Nigel Kersten, CTO/Productnigel@puppetlabs.com, @nigelkersten, IRC: nigelk

Monday, December 3, 12

Community Growth

metric 2011 2012Mailing List members ~ 600 ~ 1200

List messages/month ~ 600 ~ 1200

IRC channel members ~ 400 ~ 800

Puppet forks/watchers on GitHub

200 forks,400 watchers

425 forks,1000 watchers

Forge Modules 50 modules over 650 modules

PuppetCamps ~ 3 ~ 15

Monday, December 3, 12

PuppetConf 2012 - San Francisco

• Over 750 attendees, 75 sessions, 71 speakers

Monday, December 3, 12

Puppet Certification Launched

• Validate your Puppet knowledge• Puppet Professional• Puppet Developer• http://puppetlabs.com/services/certification

Monday, December 3, 12

The Year That Was - Changes at Puppet Labs

• Parallel Value Streams– Puppet Enterprise, Open Source/Platform, Forge– Product, Design and Engineering

• New Office in Portland• New Office in London• New Community Manager - Dawn Foster– Metrics Geek: http://puppetlabs.com/community/metrics/– dawn@puppetlabs.com– @geekygirldawn– IRC: DawnFoster

Monday, December 3, 12

Semantic Versioning

• SemVer commitment for all products– http://semver.org

• For version “x.y.z”– x: Major

• Compatibility-breaking changes

– y: Minor• New, backwards-compatible features

– z: Patch• Bug fixes, no other behavioral/functional changes

Monday, December 3, 12

Puppet 3.0.x

• Improved performance• Reduced memory footprint• Dynamic variable scope removed– Simple: Local -> Inherited -> Node -> Global

• ENC authoritative over agent environment (#3910)• pluginsync• Data bindings for class parameters

Monday, December 3, 12

Puppet 3.0.x

• Ruby 1.9.3 support added• Ruby 1.8.5 support removed• Centos/RHEL 5 users stuck on Ruby 1.8.5?– Use Puppet Labs Ruby 1.8.7 packages

Monday, December 3, 12

Puppet 3.0.x

• Lots of changes• Awesome new Reference Manual– http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3/reference/– Read the release notes and upgrade guide!

Monday, December 3, 12

Hiera 1.x

• Key/Value data store for configuration data• Keeps site-specific data out of manifests• Avoids repetition• Configurable hierarchy based on Fact values• Automatic data binding source for Puppet 3.0

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Data bindings for class parameters

Monday, December 3, 12

Forge

• Dedicated Team• Brand new architecture• GitHub Issues integration• Module Tool part of Puppet• Dependency Resolution

Monday, December 3, 12

Forge

Monday, December 3, 12

MCollective 2.x

• Direct Addressing• Discovery Plugins• Stability and Security• Chained command piping

$ mco rpc package status package=mcollective -j \

| jgrep "data.properties.ensure=2.0.0-6.el6" \

| mco rpc puppetd runonce

Monday, December 3, 12

PuppetDB 1.x

• Source of truth for Puppet-generated data• 100% compatible storeconfigs replacement• 100% compatible inventory service replacement• Stores entire catalog and all the facts• Vastly increased performance• Written in Clojure, runs on the JVM• Heavily Instrumented

Monday, December 3, 12

PuppetDB 1.x

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PuppetDB Future

• Report Storage• Historical Catalogs• Historical Facts

Monday, December 3, 12

Puppet Enterprise 2.x

• Pre-configured Complete Stack– Puppet, MCollective, Hiera, Enterprise Console and all dependencies

• Graphical Orchestration– Automatically created GUIs for MCollective Agents

• Console Auth– Authenticate against Active Directory, OpenLDAP, Google Apps– Pre-configured Roles: Read-Only, Read-Write, Administrator

• Cloud Provisioning– Amazon EC2, VMware VSphere

• PE 2.7 - Node Request Management!– Graphical signing of new nodes

Monday, December 3, 12

Puppet Enterprise 2.6 - Console Auth

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Puppet Enterprise 2.7 - Node Request Management

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Questions?

Monday, December 3, 12