Here are the slides from Ganesh Subramaniam's PuppetConf 2016 presentation called Puppet and vRealize Automation: The Next Generation. Watch the videos at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV86BgbREluVjwwt-9UL8u2Uy8xnzpIqa

1. © 2016 VMware Inc. All rights reserved.
Puppet and vRealize Automation:
The Next Generation
PuppetConf 2016
Ganesh Subramaniam, VMware
Bruce George, VMware
Sanjay Maru, St. Joseph Health

2. Agenda
1 vRealize Automation & Configuration Management
2 VMware & Puppet Joint Solution / Demo
3 Customer: St. Joseph Health
4 Q & A
2

3. A Tale of Two Teams
Infrastructure
Team
Applications
Team
Duplication of Efforts
Extensibility: Inconsistencies, Inflexible approaches
Unsupported Home-grown Solution
Agility: Slow IT Service Delivery

4. vRealize Suite: the Control Plane of the SDDC
CONFIDENTIAL 4
Delivering the Enterprise-Ready Cloud Management Platform
Any Device Business Mobility: Applications | Devices | Content
Any Application Traditional | Cloud Native
One Cloud Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC)
Cloud Management Platform
Compute Networking
& Security
Storage Multi-Cloud
Virtual / Cloud Infrastructure
vRealize
Automation
VMware Integrated
OpenStack (VIO)
vRealize Operations
vRealize Log Insight
vRealize Network
Insight (Arkin)
vRealize
Business
DevOps
Extensibility
vRealize
Code Stream
Management
Packs

5. Unified Blueprint Model and Design Canvas
5
Graphical drag and drop design canvas across vRealize Automation services
Design Components
• Infrastructure
• Networks
• Security
• Software
• XaaS
Drag and Drop
Components to
Design Applications
• Relationships
• Dependencies
• Networks
• Security

6. vRealize Automation - Policy Management
Business
Groups
B
A
C
USERS
A
C
B
A
Authen,ca,on &
Role-Based
Authoriza,on
Authorized
Users
Resource
Reservations
Cost Profile
A
Tier 1
Public
Physical
Virtual
Shared Infrastructure
Service
Blueprints
A
Requisi,on
Cost Profile
Provision
Manage
Re,re
Public
Physical
Virtual
C
B
B
A
B
A
C
BA
“Who provisions what and where”

7. Extensible to new services
Portal branding per tenant
App store experience
Service category
Your logo
Custom Service
Entitlements and Approvals
for each item
Unified Service Catalog:
Infrastructure, Applications, Custom IT Services

8. IT Automating IT Illustrated
§ IT requests services in
the services catalog on
behalf of consumers
§ IT delivers infrastructure
services to apps teams
§ Later, App teams can be
entitled to request
services on their ownIT Teams
Apps / LOB
Accelerated delivery of infrastructure services
vRealize Automation
Service Catalog
Compute Network Storage
Dev Test Prod
1
2
3
4
Summary

9. Provisioning a VM is fast and easy, but...
● May not be security hardened or compliant with org’s
Standard Operating Environment (SOE)
● Consumer still has to add their own components, likely
manually.
● You could easily consume a week’s worth of work
manually completing the build-out of the newly
provisioned server
● VMs can get thrown over the wall: no central visibility
into what the Consumer has done to the VM or what
state it is in now
● No way to automate updating the VM once it has been
provisioned

10. Integration with Configuration Management Solution
Self - Service
Infrastructure
Services
Cloud Automation
Heterogeneous Infrastructure
Policy-Based Governance with Automated Delivery
Drift Remediation
Service Catalog
Blueprints
Configuration Language
VMware Cloud
Management Marketplace
Puppet Forge
Community
Ecosystem
Configuration
Application Services Custom Services
Publish to Self-
Service Catalog
Apply Governance
Control Through Policies
Define in Blueprint for
Consistency

11. 1 vRealize Automation & Configuration Management
2 VMware & Puppet Joint Solution / Demo
3 Customer: St. Joseph Health
4 Q & A
11

12. vRealize Automation - Puppet Plugin
OS Configuration, Application Provisioning,
and Lifecycle Management
• It’s a collection of vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) workflows
• Works with both Puppet Open Source and Puppet Enterprise
vRealize Automation
New vRA-
Puppet Plugin –
Announced
yesterday!

13. Use Cases
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Install, Configure & Auto-Sign Plugin
Single-VM and vRealize Automation Orchestrated converged Blueprint
Creation
Consumer Provisioning from a Blueprint Workflow
Decommissioning and Machine-Level Day 2 operations

14. Node
Management
vRealize Automation
vRealize Orchestrator
Step 1:
✓ Provision VM from vRA
✓ Install Puppet Agent
✓ Register w/Puppet Master
✓ Assign Puppet role
✓ Dependencies set via vRA
Blueprint
Step 2:
Puppet Master
determines correct
config. for each role
e.g.: VM1 is a DB
Step 3:
Puppet Enterprise performs
ongoing life-cycle management
vRealize Automation & Puppet Workflow
Database Web
Service
Load
Balancer
Puppet Master

15. Key Value Proposition
vRealize Automation leverages Puppet's ability to fully configure machines to make them production ready
Maintain visibility into drift and ability to make Day 2 change during the machine's lifecycle
Doesn't need to do anything differently to provide content to the vRealize Automation admin
Easy to create offerings that delivers production-ready infrastructure to their consumers
Once the blueprint is created, no further intervention is required
Doesn't need to know much about Puppet. Leverage vRA's governance capabilities as well as orchestration
Get what they want immediately by clicking one button
Don't need to know anything about Puppet or vRealize Automation
Do get compliant infrastructure and don't have to spend time manually adding additional components
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Consumer
vRealize Automation Admin
Puppet Practitioner

16. Demo

17. 1 vRealize Automation & Configuration Management
2 VMware & Puppet Joint Solution
3 Customer: St. Joseph Health
4 Q & A
17

18. St. Joseph Health at a glance

19. St. Joseph Health IT at a glance

20. St. Joseph Health IT: Virtual Data Center Value
Business Goals
Menu-Based Provisioning
• 1 to 1000’s or servers in seconds/minutes
Zero Touch
• Administra?on
• Support
Dev/Test/Prod Environments
• Eliminate accidental outages
• Protected environments
• Test before deploy
Business Con?nuity & DR
• Recover in minutes
• Con?nuous recovery tes?ng
Security
• Industry leading security
• Automated audit/compliance
• Con?nuous configura?on management
Service Level Agreements
(SLA’s)
• Performance
• Availability
• Support

21. St. Joseph Health IT:
Auto Provisioning, Continuous Delivery & Configuration Management

22. 1 vRealize Automation & Configuration Management
2 VMware & Puppet Joint Solution
3 Customer: St. Joseph Health
4 Q & A
22

23. Questions
23

24. Thank You