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Explore the vibrant community, direction of Puppet Labs, and brilliant talks at PuppetConf 2012. Discover the growth of Puppet users and the latest tools showcased. Uncover how DevOps and infrastructure as code are revolutionizing the industry.
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PuppetConf 2012 • San 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• Puppet as a platform • Open APIs, upon which puppetlabs will design tools for specific workflows • Dashboard withdrawn since conf • PuppetDB example of new SOA approach
Puppet talks • Most online • http://puppetlabs.com/community/videos/puppetconf/ • Several tracks • Cloud; Getting Started; Keynotes; Puppet Theatre; Puppet+; Rethinking Ops; Tool Chain
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