Collaboration & Empowerment Driving Change in Infrastructure with Culture

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Martin Jackson Enterprise Technical Expert, Walmart @mjolnir40k

Our journey – haven’t stopped believing

48,987,856 total resources

53,386 total nodes

863.74 average resources per node

2,104 Windows nodes

including

202 47 from the Forge modules

… and, deploy to production 6.79 times every

working day

The move from Puppet Open Source to Puppet Enterprise.

Needless to say, we’ve learned a lot...

Learn Do Adjust

…and we’ve learned from our mistakes

Technology & Culture

We’ve learned a lot in a couple related areas:

Technology

Migration from Open Source to PE

“Functionality is an asset, code is a liability”

Someone on the Internet

Hi! I’m Puppety!

Are you trying to make a node

group?

The shortest path to better software.

What did we learn?

We had some challenges …

… but

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Refactoring for roles and profiles

Culture

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Trust in engineers

Recommendations

Reward

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Success

Risk

Looking for synergies

Working with other tools

Takeaways: Share the journey

Nothing ventured, nothing gained!

Start the Empowerment-Passion-

Results Cycle

Repeat the Cycle with Systems Tooling

Questions?

http://puppetconf.techbetter.com

Thank You!