![Puppet Enterprise: Configuration
Improve agility and productivity through defining and enforcing a desired state
1. Define the desired state
service { ‘ssh’:
ensure => running,
enable => true,
subscribe => File[‘/etc/sshd_config’]
}
2. Simulate configuration changes
4. Report on differences and
any changes made
PUPPET
ENTERPRISE
Current State
Desired State
3. Enforce the deployed desired
state – automatically](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/puppet-overview-131204211724-phpapp02/85/Puppet-overview-22-320.jpg)
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- 23. Puppet Enterprise: Orchestration Controlled, multi-step operations to targeted collections of nodes Goal: update Apache on all QA nodes Update next 20% Update 10% of nodes Wait 20 min 100% of nodes updated Wait 20 min Puppet Enterprise Dynamic Multi-step Operations Chain the outputs of one operation into the next Manage Change Rate Progressively apply changes to sub-sets of nodes Control Change Scope Apply changes only to specifically tagged nodes
- 24. Puppet Enterprise: Reporting Inventory and change data accessible via GUI and APIs Comprehensive Infrastructure Data Hardware and software inventory, change reports, configuration graphs ! ! Open Standards YAML, JSON, and .dot-formatted data accessible via RESTful API ! ! Rich Ecosystem of Tools Boundary, New Relic, Graphite, GraphViz, Gephi, and many more
- 25. Puppet Enterprise: Event Inspector Quickly understand and act on changes occurring in your infrastructure Know What Changed, Where, & How Visualize infrastructure changes by Node Classes, and Resources ! ! Understand the Impact Drill-down, zoom-out to evaluate the scope of changes ! ! Take Action & Improve Service Levels Get the specifics to address and manage change
- 26. Puppet Enterprise: Role-Based Access Control Read-only, Read-write, and Admin roles Easy Set-up Quickly create new users through the Puppet Enterprise console GUI ! Easy Installation Select from Read-only, Read-write, or Admin roles ! Native Resource Support Users’ activities logged and auditable ! Third-Party Authentication Support LDAP, Active Directory, Google Apps
- 27. The Projects that Make Puppet Awesome
- 28. Puppet • Core project in the Puppet ecosystem • Idempotent, model-based configuration management • A simple language to describe state and an engine for enforcing it • Huge library of reusable modules on the Puppet Forge Puppet Enterprise built on top of Puppet
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- 34. Puppet Forge: Module Repository • By the community ... For the community • Identify and use the best ones • Contribute your own modules Jan 2012 Modules Total Downloads Since Feb 2012 November 2013 260 1735+ 2.1+ million Add Additional Functionality to Puppet / Puppet Enterprise
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- 37. Puppet Labs: by the numbers Jan 2012 September 2013 Employees 55 190+ Customer Countries 29 42 Office Space 836 m2 9,000 ft2 2,232 m2 25,000 ft2
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- 41. Training Courses and Certification
- 43. New to Puppet? • https://puppetlabs.com/learn ! ! • http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/
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