Here are the slides from Martin Jackson's PuppetConf 2016 presentation called Collaboration and Empowerment: Driving Change in Infrastructure with Culture. Watch the videos at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV86BgbREluVjwwt-9UL8u2Uy8xnzpIqa

2. Collaboration &
Empowerment
Driving Change in
Infrastructure with Culture
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3. Martin Jackson
Enterprise Technical Expert, Walmart
@mjolnir40k

4. Our journey – haven’t stopped believing

5. 48,987,856 total
resources
53,386 total
nodes
863.74 average resources
per node
2,104 Windows
nodes
including

6. 202 47from the Forgemodules

7. … and, deploy
to production 6.79 times every
working day

8. The move from Puppet Open Source
to Puppet Enterprise.

9. Needless to say, we’ve learned a lot...
Learn Do Adjust

10. …and we’ve learned from our mistakes

11. Technology & Culture
We’ve learned a lot in a couple related areas:

12. Technology

13. Migration from Open Source to PE
“Functionality is an asset,
code is a liability”
Someone on the Internet

14. Hi! I’m Puppety!
Are you trying to
make a node
group?

15. The shortest path
to better software.

16. What did we learn?

17. We had some
challenges …
… but
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18. Refactoring for roles and profiles

20. Culture

21. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

22. Trust in engineers

23. Recommendations

24. Reward
24
Success
Risk

25. Looking for synergies

26. Working with other tools

27. Takeaways:
Share the journey
Nothing ventured, nothing gained!
Start the Empowerment-Passion-
Results Cycle
Repeat the Cycle with Systems Tooling

28. Questions?
http://puppetconf.techbetter.com

29. Thank You!