140 likes | 207 Views
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)
E N D
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• Puppet as a platform • Open APIs, upon which puppetlabs will design tools for specific workflows • Dashboard withdrawn since conf • PuppetDB example of new SOA approach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