Puppet for the Enterprise

Mini Tutorial
Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 2:00pm-3:30pm

Thomas Uphill, Costco Wholesale

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BibTeX
@conference {209043,
author = {Thomas Uphill},
title = {Puppet for the Enterprise},
year = {2014},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {{USENIX} Association},
}
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Description: 

We will introduce the concept of working with puppet as a web service and then show how to scale out puppet using this knowledge. We will move onto a workflow with git, showing how to have git automatically push our code throughout our puppet infrastructure. Simultaneously covering the use of git, we will introduce r10k and show how to use r10k with git. We will show how to use custom facts as hierarchy items in hiera. Finally we will cover some common troubleshooting techniques. Students need to be able to run an ISO image as a VM.

Who should attend: 

Experienced puppet users, some topics will be advanced. Large or small deployments, the concepts covered will be applicable to any size installation.

Take back to work: 

Some tactics for dealing with problems of scale, treating puppet like a web service. How to work in a large group, with a workflow for repository and environment management. Some troubleshooting techniques.

Topics include: 
  • Scaling out catalog compilation
  • Integration with Git
  • Using the forge / Integration with r10k
  • Roles and Profiles - separating code from data
  • Custom Facts, Modules and integration with Hiera
  • Troubleshooting