Puppet for the Enterprise
LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.
The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.
Thomas Uphill, Costco Wholesale
Thomas Uphill, Costco Wholesale
Thomas has been using puppet for several years and he has given several tutorials on puppet. He spoke last year at puppetconf 2013 where he obtained the puppet professional certification. He is currently working on a puppet book. An RHCA, he currently works with puppet on the Linux team at Costco Wholesale.
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author = {Thomas Uphill},
title = {Puppet for the Enterprise},
year = {2014},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = nov
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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.
Experienced puppet users, some topics will be advanced. Large or small deployments, the concepts covered will be applicable to any size installation.
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.
- 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
