PUPPET LABSOverview

Over 3,300 community-contributed

modules

Founded in 2005

Over 10 million nodes managed

Deep partnerships with datacenter titans

800+ enterprise customers

EXPERIENCE

SCALE

ECOSYSTEM

CUSTOMERS

COMMUNITY

BACKING

THE IT AUTOMATION LEADER

60% of IT managers are not satisfied

with the speed at which IT responds

to business needs

THE COST OF MANUAL MANAGEMENT

60% of IT managers are not satisfied

with the speed at which IT responds

to business needs.

Productivity48% of IT professionals spend 50% or

more of their time on basic

administrative tasks.

93% of IT professionals cannot answer

“What changed?” when an outage

incident occurs.

Speed

Insight

AUTOMATE IT.Make rapid, repeatable changes and enforce the

consistency of systems and devices.

Operating Systems

Virtual & Cloud

Applications

Network & Storage

Users · Groups · Firewall

Packages · Services

DNS · NTP · SSH

Kernel Settings · Files

Repositories · Mounts

Jobs · Scheduling

Financial Telco/SP

Internet Tech

Gov. Defense

Education Mfg.

Retail Media

SUCCESS IN EVERY VERTICAL

Business/Developers

Self-Service Portal

Change Management

IAAS

PAAS

SAAS

Storage Bare

Metal

Network

Middle-

ware

Outsourced

IAAS

Configuration Management in IT

Reporting

Config.

Management

Orchestration

Version

ControlForge

Puppet Workflow

Reporting

GUIWorkflows

Admin & Security

VM Node Cloud NodeHardware Node

DISTRIBUTED

AGENTS

CENTRALIZED

MANAGEMENT

SERVER

CLOUD-BASED REPOSITORY

OF PRE-BUILT SOLUTIONS

Puppet ForgePuppet Master

Agent Agent Agent

3RD PARTY INTEGRATIONS

CMDBs

LDAP & AD

Monitoring

Version Control

Puppet Demo

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Ronak Patel

With Puppet

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Ronak Patel

Corelogic’s Journey

Into IT Automation

Why Puppet?

Pull Strings Instead of Hair … Hence Puppet

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Automation Automation Automation

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Install

Configure

ManageMonitor

Upgrade

Native installation process

Linux - RPMs from Yum Repos

Versioning

Easy to Upgrade

Know your environment

3 line code to install

Visible to everyone on your team

Centralized code in version control

Puppet Code

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File templates - Consistency

Content control through Hiera

Environment specific

Know what is configured/different

Define owner and permission

Template, Augeas and file_line

Puppet Code

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Install and use services

Define state of the service

Startup scripts in version control

Manage services through “mco”

Puppet Code

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Runs every 30 min (or as defined)

Makes sure it is as defined

Reports through puppet

Go play some ping pong

Puppet Code

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Hiera Preview

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Hiera

qa.yaml

prod.yaml dev.yaml

appdynamics::version: 5.0appdynamics::version: 4.0

Modules

PROD Node DEV Node QA Node

class appdynamics (

version = “3.0” # Default is 3.0 – overwrite with hiera“appdyanmics::version”

) {

package { ‘appdynamics’:

ensure => $version,

}

file { ‘/path/to/controller.xml’:

content => template(“appdynamics/controller.xml”),

}

service { ‘appdynamics’:

ensure => running,

enable => true,

}

}

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Code – Can be written in different ways

Understand your requirements

Simple vs Complex - Depends on your current/future requirements

Standardize

Automation Automation Automation

Infrastructure as code

Configuration Drift

Decode the DNA and codify it so it does not live in someone’s head only

Let me count the ways

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