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Track Overview:Puppet Applied

19 - 21 OctoberSan Diego

Delivering Premium Quality Modules: Using Beaker and VMpooler for Multi-Platform Testing

In 2014 KPN decided to use Puppet to manage thousands of its customers' servers. To guarantee a smooth transition to a puppetized infrastructure we needed to deliver high-quality modules. To that end we implemented a puppetized CI pipeline that included full acceptance tests on all target platforms (Linux AND Windows). In this session we'll take a closer look at the Jenkins, Beaker and VMpooler setup we use to provide this test environment. We'll talk about technical challenges and other lessons learned during this project.

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Thursday, October 20 | 11:15 am

Dimitri Tischenko

Rene Last

Puppet Applied

Automation Architect, Myndrik

System Administrator, KPN B.V.

An Introduction to Measuring and Tuning PE Performance

I hope my audience will leave this talk with an understanding of how to monitor and tune performance for both Puppet and PE installations. Specific topics include:

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Thursday, October 20 | 1:30 pm

Charlie SharpsteenPuppet Employee, Puppet

Puppet Applied

● JVM memory limits and how to manage them using Puppet. ● How to monitor and tune Puppet Server to manage JRuby

usage and profile catalog compilation. ● How to monitor and tune PuppetDB to manage command

queue depth and database disk usage. ● How to tune the Enterprise console to manage the demands of

classifier sync. ● How to tune agents using splay and direct puppet such that

Puppet infrastructure is used efficiently.

Automating Datastore Fleets With Puppet

Yelp's PaaS based on Mesos is nice for deploying stateless application services, but we've found Puppet to be our tool of choice for managing clusters of heavily stateful applications like Zookeeper, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch, while supporting a high degree of configuration diversity. In this talk, I'll show how we have built "cluster native"� Puppet modules for flexibility and scale. Our design allows us to:

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Thursday, October 20 | 2:30 pm

Joseph LynchSoftware Engineer, Yelp

● Configure instances of a cluster independently, while still sharing core automation.

● Dynamically scale clusters up and down as needed within minutes.

● Provide control and tooling over these clusters to developers themselves. Along the way I'll show how you can tie together advanced Puppet techniques like Module Hiera Data, ENC, and custom types/functions to create robust automation.

Puppet Applied

Watching The Puppet Show

With Puppet, you can declare what you want your infrastructure to look like and Puppet will take action, making the necessary changes to bring it to fruition. How do you know if your Puppet declarations have produced a working stack? Will future changes impact the health of your stack? In this presentation, I will discuss common pitfalls and failure cases when using Puppet to manage infrastructure and services, and how they can be mitigated or avoided with monitoring. I will talk about Sensu, a monitoring tool designed from the ground up to work in conjunction with Puppet. I will explain how Puppet and Sensu interact with one another to help produce reliable services. This presentation will include examples of Puppet & Sensu configuration and code.

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Thursday, October 20 | 3:45 pm

Sean PorterEngineer, Heavy Water Operations

Puppet Applied

Device-Based Modules - Making Them as Simple as a Light Switch

Puppet 4 has been out for a year and a half and you still have a Puppet 3 installation you need upgraded. We'll examine the benefits of upgrading and lay out a plan to make it happen. Many have been through the school of hard knocks, and we'll use that knowledge to make our own journey enjoyable. This session will cover both Puppet FOSS and Enterprise editions.

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Thursday, October 20 | 4:45 pm

DevOps Engineer, PuppetTP Honey

Puppet Applied

Testing and Delivering Puppet

Have you, a Puppet user, ever wondered how Puppet ships software? My goal here is to be fearlessly transparent and share the way we apply practices from the scientific method, and continuous delivery to deliver Puppet and friends on 80+ platform targets. This is a walk-through in DevOps and software delivery workflows. I'll trace the process of building out a new platform within the ecosystem which includes lifecycle selection, toolchain management, test tiering, and work scheduling. I'll take some planned detours into some of our freely available tools, including Vanagon and VMpooler. Weaved throughout the presentation are the roles people and teams play, how each person contributes to getting the bits out on time, and how our processes have evolved over the last five years.

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Friday, October 21 | 11:15 am

Michael StahnkeDirector of Engineering, Puppet

Puppet Applied

Why Network Automation Matters, and What You Can Do About It

Network automation presents a series of unique challenges for vendors and customers alike. In this session we will discuss the similarities and differences of network versus traditional systems administration. There will be real world examples of the complexity and scale of network configurations with an emphasis of separating the "how" from the "what". I also intend to demonstrate how Puppet is accelerating the depth of network automation by bridging the power of the Puppet language with YANG network data models.

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Friday, October 21 | 2:30 pm

Rick ShermanSr. Release Engineer, Puppet

Puppet Applied

Puppet Enterprise Roadmap and How to Succeed With It

Puppet Enterprise is more than just Puppet Open Source + Support. If you’re a Puppet Enterprise user today, or interested in amplifying your success with Puppet broadly across your organization, this is the session for you. We will explain what's new and what's coming up in Puppet Enterprise and also illustrate how its features work together to solve your problems.

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Friday, October 21 | 3:45 pm

Lindsey Smith

Susannah AxelrodDirector of Product Management, Puppet

Product Manager, Puppet

Puppet Applied

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Puppet Applied:Speakers

19 - 21 OctoberSan Diego

Rene LastSystem Administrator, KPN B.V.

Rene - Born and raised in the Netherlands, got a computer science degree in Enschede. Rene has been working at KPN since 2007. Initially as a sysadmin. Later became a technical consultant. Rene now works in KPNs Tooling & Automation team where he is responsible for delivering and maintaining puppetmasters and various puppet related services for teams within KPN.

Dimitri TischenkoAutomation Architect, Myndrik

Born in St Petersburg, Russia, moved to The Netherlands at 13, got into computing at 18. Graduated from Delft University of Technology with an MSc degree in Computer Science. Co-founded Proteon in 1995, a managed hosting company. Discovered and implemented puppet in 2009. Since 2013 a free-lance "Puppetmaster". In 2015/2016 Puppet Team Lead at KPN, working on a central Puppet Infrastructure involving thousands of nodes. Currently Automation Architect at Aegon, helping adopt Devops culture, processes and tools. Dances and teaches Argentine Tango.

Charlie SharpsteenPuppet Employee, Puppet

Charlie Sharpsteen is a Principal Support Engineer at Puppet where he spends his time pulling products apart to figure out how things work and how they can be re-built to work better. In his spare time, Charlie can be found contributing to Open Source projects in the Puppet Ecosystem, tinkering with virtual infrastructure, and exploring the Pacific Northwest.

Joseph LynchSoftware Engineer, Yelp

Joseph Lynch is a software engineer for Yelp who focuses on building datastore and service infrastructure. Joey is a core contributor to Yelp’s datastore platform which has allowed Yelp to go from a primarily MySQL data tier to a Polyglot data tier including Elasticsearch, Cassandra, and Zookeeper. He loves pushing the edge of how Yelp uses Puppet to automate infrastructure and never met a problem he didn’t want to automate away. When not wrangling clusters of datastores, he enjoys building service discovery, reliable communication, fast deployment, and monitoring into Yelp’s SOA.

Sean PorterEngineer, Heavy Water Operations

Sean Porter is a toolsmith with a love for composable systems. He is a practitioner of passion driven development with an appetite for a good post-mortem. As the author and lead developer of Sensu, the open source monitoring framework, he acts as the primary caretaker of its community. Sean is a partner at Heavy Water Operations, building Sensu Enterprise and helping people automate and monitor their infrastructure.

TP HoneyDevOps Engineer, Puppet

TP has worked at Puppet for the last year and a half, developing their supported modules. This includes working with the puppet community on FOSS modules for Apache / MySQL / Postgresql / Tomcat ... and also on device based modules like the Netscaler / F5 / Netapp modules. Before Puppet he was employed by F5 and BTI Systems. Then he moved on to IBM, working in the security space developing QVM - a networked vulnerability scanner, maintaining the penetration tools.

Michael StahnkeDirector of Engineering, Puppet

Michael Stahnke is Director of Engineering at Puppet. He's held a few roles and been a part of the company growing from 35 to 440+ employees. While staying near the domains of release engineering, operations, and community, he’s been in leadership for most of the last decade. His interests are building teams, mentoring team members, and playing Hot Wheels cars with his son. He came to Puppet from Caterpillar, Inc. where he was an infrastructure architect, infrastructure team lead, and open source evangelist. Michael also helped get the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository launched in 2005, authored of Pro OpenSSH (Apress, 2005), and writes with some frequency about technology and computers. @stahnma on twitter and medium.

Rick ShermanSr. Release Engineer, Puppet

Rick Sherman (Shermdog) is a Senior Engineer at Puppet driving the expansion of Network Platforms and Services. Prior to joining Puppet he worked at Juniper Networks supporting Identity and Policy management, and providing automation frameworks for network engineers. Rick is passionate about bridging the DevOps gap in networking and moving the industry forward. Based in St. Louis, he prefers to communicate via animated gifs and movie-related memes.

Susannah AxelrodDirector of Product Management, Puppet

Susannah joined Puppet in 2013 to build the product management team and function. Prior to Puppet, she held product leadership positions at Thomson Reuters, Sage Software, Intuit and Intel Corp. She has also worked as a marketing and strategy consultant for a diverse set of technology companies.

Lindsey SmithProduct Manager, Puppet

Lindsey is a senior product manager at Puppet and nothing makes him happier than talking with users to hear the good, the bad and the ugly in their own words. He has been working in the software industry since teaching himself to program in junior high (highlights include cafeteria chain trainee scheduling system and 4-H chicken judging score management) as well as sysadmin jobs all through high school and college. Software engineer roles and a Symantec acquisition brought him to the Pacific Northwest and then on to a startup where he transitioned into product management responsibilities while scraping by as the Linux sysadmin. Prior to Puppet he was technical product manager and then product manager for security visualization and analytics at Tripwire.

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