The State of Puppet presentation delivered at Puppet Camp London by Luke Kanies.

1. Luke Kanies
@puppetmasterd
IRC: lak
luke@puppetlabs.com

2. Thanks to
our Sponsors
Quru and Red Hat

3. The State of
IT

4. Shorter Cycles

5. Builtin
Constraints

6. DevOps

7. Change must be
embraced

8. Cloud

9. State of IT
Automation

10. Enabling Frictionless
Technological Change

11. Customers Everywhere

12. Simple, Declarative

13. New Approach: Software
Defined Infrastructure
1. DEFINE 2. SIMULATE
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Re-usable infrastructure-as-code Before deploying changes
4. REPORT 3. ENFORCE
CURRENT
STATE
DESIRED
STATE
Insight into changes Automatically and reliably

14. Lifecycle of a Puppet Run
Node
1 Facts
The node sends
normalized data
about itself to the
Puppet Master.
SSL secure 2 Catalog
Puppet uses the Facts to
encryption compile a Catalog that
on all data specifies how the node
transport should be configured.
Report 3
The node
reports back
to Puppet
indicating the
configuration is
complete, which
is visible in the Puppet
Puppet Dashboard. Master 4 Report Collector
(Puppet or 3rd party tool)
Report
can also send data
to third party tools.

15. Puppet PUPPET FORGE CONTENT MARKETPLACE
Architecture
PUPPET MASTER SERVER
GUI & Admin &
Reporting Content
Workflows Security
PUPPET OPEN SOURCE PLATFORM
PUPPET PUPPET PUPPET
AGENT AGENT AGENT
Web Server Application Server Database Server
Hardware Virtual Machine Cloud

16. Strong Community
Forum Members Jan 2012 Feb 2013
puppet-users list 3588 5402
puppet-dev list 724 971
ask.puppetlabs.com N/A 383
#puppet 600 980
Repository Jan 2012 Feb 2013
Puppet Forks 236 496
Puppet Watchers 526 1185

17. Easy to Get Involved
• Help with Documentation
• Ask/Answer questions
• http://ask.puppetlabs.com
• mailing lists
• IRC
• Help with bug triage
• Contribute code
• Contribute modules on the Forge
• Visit https://puppetlabs.com/community to learn
more

18. AUGUST 22 - 23
http://puppetconf.com

19. Puppet
Enterprise

20. Puppet Enterprise
GUI Cloud Provisioning
Orchestration Compliance
Services &
Packaging
Support

21. GUI for Puppet
Time-based
display for insight
into rate of
change
High level
status for
nodes
Detailed node
status to pinpoint
specific issues

22. PE Live Management
Choose nodes to
clone to ensure
consistency
Browse for Preview the
managed impact before
nodes in your you clone
infrastructure nodes

23. VM/Cloud Provisioning
1. Create VM node capacity
using VMware vSphere or AWS
2. Automatically install
the Puppet Agent on new nodes
3. Configure nodes
using existing definitions
VMware vSphere or AWS
Respond quickly to business demands while maintaining
configuration consistency across environments

24. Recent Features
• Certificate Signing from the GUI
• Authentication with LDAP and oAuth

25. Organizational Scalability

26. Puppet
Activity Log

28. Puppet 3 Developments
• Removal of dynamic scoping
• Extensions loaded from gems
• Full Ruby 1.9.3 support
• Pluginsync by default
• Data Separation with data binding
• Performance improvements
• Better version numbers
• More platform support
• Code loading improvements
• Even more documentation

29. Scope
# dynamic scoping is gone
class parent {
$var = "from parent"
include included
}
class included {
notify { $var: } ## NOT GONNA WORK
notify { $parent::var: } ## YUP
}

30. Builtin Data Binding
class ntp($server = hiera(ntp_server,
‘time.apple.com’)) {
...
}
# can be changed to
class ntp($ntpserver = ‘time.apple.com’) {
...
}

31. Performance
Gains

33. Puppet 3 moving on from 2.7
2.7.0 Release
3.1.0 Release
3.0.0 Release

34. API Documentation!

35. Transparency in plans

36. Puppet Armatures (ARM)
• Proposals to enhance / add features to Puppet or
other projects in the Puppet eco-system
• ARM is a process for collecting, reviewing, sorting,
and recording the result of proposals for
enhancements
• Used for work that require 2+ weeks effort, has
significant changes, is in high demand, or contains
changes to Puppet Language / evaluation semantics
• Community-focused process to improve openness
and transparency for Puppet Labs-funded and
contributor efforts
github.com/puppetlabs/armatures

37. Forge
Activity Log

38. By the Numbers
Jan 2012 March 2013
Modules 260 950+
Users 930 2270+
Total Downloads
439,000+
Since Feb 2012

39. MCollective
Activity Log

40. Continuous Release
• Agents in packages, real packages
• MCO does it, so you can make them too
• Continuously built, continuously released

41. Usability
• Better docs
• More Complete applications
• Out of the box usability
• But still the framework it always was
• Full integration into puppet training

42. PuppetDB
Happenings

43. Better Query, More Storage
• PuppetDB 1.1 released
• Enhanced Query API for
facts, subqueries, regular
expressions
• Report Storage
• Report Query in an
experimental API

44. Razor Happenings

45. Razor Present and Future
• Security audits, fixes in the 0.9.0 release
• Not yet ready for prime time
• Help us get it there
• File bugs, contribute to the community

46. Hiera Happenings

47. Hiera
• Support is built into Puppet 3, and is available as an
add-on for Puppet 2.7

48. Puppet Labs

49. Puppet Labs: by the numbers
Jan 2012 March 2013
Employees 55 120
Customer Countries 29 42
836 m2 2,232 m2
Office Space
9,000 ft2 25,000 ft2

50. Puppet Labs: A Great Place to Work!
Weekly Company Lunch
Awesome Espresso & Tea
Photos by Gary Larizza

51. We’re Hiring!

52. Training
&
Certification

53. Training by Country

54. Puppet Education:
Training and Certification Track

55. Questions?

56. Thank You!
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http://puppetlabs.com/community
http://puppetlabs.com/puppet/puppet-enterprise/