Puppet delivered the Puppet plugin for vRealize Automation (vRA) which accelerates the delivery and operation of infrastructure by giving you a fully automated self-service provisioning workflow between vRealize Automation and Puppet. By leveraging Puppet’s massive base of existing management content, you can rapidly deliver fully-configured machines to consumers. Fannie Mae has deployed Puppet Enterprise and vRA to directly give DevOps engineers self-service access to design, validate, and deploy fully configured multi-tier, customized environments. Attendees will gain an understanding of how to implement the Puppet plugin for vRA, manage classifications for traditional Puppet implementations, how Fannie Mae has extended the usage of the Puppet plugin to deliver vRA blueprints integrated with Puppet to dynamically pass configuration data to puppet modules. Key Takeaway 1: Puppet Orchestration plugin provides a supported solution giving organizations that have already deployed Puppet or are in the process to integrate with vRA. Key Takeaway 2: The Puppet plugin can be used out of the box for quick standard Puppet classifications by leveraging existing Puppet modules. Also how the plugin can be used and extended to support more advanced use cases integrated with complex vRA blueprints Key Takeaway 3: vRA and Puppet are a powerful tool for solving real-world DevOps problems. The power of vRA blueprints combined with the server configuration management of puppet provide a great top down/bottom up approach to automated deployments. The Puppet plugin provides another tool to quickly deliver business value.

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Puppet plugin for vRA (vRO):
How Fannie Mae is letting the
developers pull the strings
Trent TeSelle Fannie Mae – RapidIT
Jeremy Adams Puppet – Customer Success

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Trent TeSelle
Fannie Mae, DevOps Engineer III
Trent is the Product Owner and Technical Lead for
RapidIT which is the internally branded solution for
delivering infrastructure as code. He has over 20
years of experience in various DevOps, Integration
and Architecture roles delivering IT solutions for
business success.

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Jeremy Adams
Puppet, Solutions Engineering
Jeremy has been with Puppet for more than 4 years
working in customer-facing technical roles. He’s been
working closely with VMware for much of that time to
bring value to our joint customers. He was deeply
involved in the latest releases of the Puppet
Enterprise vRealize Automation plugin.

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Puppet plugin for vRA
> primer and 3.0 update
> demo
Fannie Mae RapidIT solution
> advanced PE, vRA, vRO
Q&A

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Reference Architecture

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*DON’T LOOK BEHIND THIS PROTECTIVE SHIELD!
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Agility Through IT
Automation
Personalization
Through
Governance
Policies
Efficiency
Through Cost
Containment
Choice Through
Flexibility
What vRA Delivers…

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Know what you
have
Control it and
enforce consistency
Secure it and
keep it compliant
Modernize it
What Puppet does…
Using a common language
Across everything, no matter where it runs

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How Puppet Works
Configuration Management
10
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Facts
2
Catalog
Node
3
Report
Puppet Master

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Ready to see it in action?
Demo time!

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Now let’s get real!

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Fannie Mae RapidIT
RapidIT is the internal branding for automated delivery and management of IT infrastructure, and is part of a
larger Development Services transition to a DevOps model in Fannie Mae.
• RapidIT is implemented using VMware vRealize Automation Suite (vRA) and Puppet Enterprise to deploy and manage all
VM server deployments and configurations.
• Puppet Enterprise is utilized for state management of server configurations, software installations, database and
middleware configurations.
• vRealize Orchestrator with Puppet Plugin for vRA is utilized to integrate with Fannie Mae systems and shared services, also
it orchestrates Puppet classification and configuration data, and provides dynamic forms to the vRA Portal.
RapidIT Features
• IaaS Catalog and Resource Actions supporting legacy application infrastructure
• Self-Service Application Services Blueprints utilized to deploy target state application multi-tier infrastructure
• XaaS Workflows for customer Day-2 automations and for RapidIT Operations

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vRO
NAS Shared
Drive
Puppet Master Puppet Master Puppet Master
Puppet
Console
Node Configuration with vRO and Node Data on NAS Mount
Node Data
JSON
Node
Classification

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Role Based
Standard IaaS
Servers

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Application Specific
Enrichment

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Complete
Application
Blueprint

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Application
Blueprint YAML
as Code in GIT

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Application
Environment
Deployed as a
Single Request

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Puppet Enterprise and vRA at Fannie Mae
• Allowed Fannie Mae to leverage the best of both products to deliver value quickly
• Provided immediate value from Puppet before we were ready for Puppet
• vRO with Puppet integration allows for complex orchestration of disparate IT Systems
• Ability to manage infrastructure as code for customization beyond the standard server roles, while ensuring
application specific customization is built to standards
• Self-service teams can define and configure application infrastructure without the need for Puppet skills
• Application teams with Puppet skills can use DSL and roles to define their infrastructure if required
• Designed so data driven infrastructure node management approach follows defined patterns

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Questions?

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