PuppetConf 2012 San Francisco - trip report. Agenda What is puppetconf? Puppet Community Direction...

PuppetConf 2012San Francisco - trip report

Agenda

•What is puppetconf?

•Puppet Community

•Direction of puppetlabs

•Awesome talks

•Conclusions & questions

What is puppetconf?

•Used to have annual puppetcamp

•Puppet camps now community organized and global (16 last year)

•Puppetconf is the annual event

•700 attendees this year (350 last)

•Not just about puppet...

Community doubled

•puppet-users@googlegroups.com

•membership from 3000 to 5000

•600 to 1200 messages / month

•#puppet IRC from 400 => 800 avg. users

•GitHub forks & watchers doubled

•Majority at conf users since 2011

Direction

•Puppet as a platform

•Open APIs, upon which puppetlabs will design tools for specific workflows

•Dashboard withdrawn since conf

•PuppetDB example of new SOA approach

Awesome

•Most online

•http://puppetlabs.com/community/videos/puppetconf/

•Several tracks

•Cloud; Getting Started; Keynotes; Puppet Theatre; Puppet+; Rethinking Ops; Tool Chain

Puppet talks

Getting started•External data - Hiera, ENCs (Kelsey

Hightower)

•good intro to hiera, not advanced usage

•no globals in puppet 3.0

•Puppet DB (Deepak Giridharagopal)

•Speedy Gonzales!

Toolchain / Ops culture

•Puppet at GitHub (Jesse Newland)

•more for HuBot than puppet...

•The deployment pipeline (Jez Humble)

•Continuous delivery, agile, devops

•Putting the Science back (Jon Willis)

Theatre / Puppet+

•Managing an army of laptops (Will Farrington)

•GitHub’s “boxen” released this year

•Razor (Nick Weaver)

•bare metal provisioning

Conclusions

•Awesome!

•CERN very popular

•also popular: kittens

•Puppetlabs & users know forge needs to get better

•DevOps, infrastructure as code, process