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Reminder für das morgige Puppet-Webinar

puppet Ich möchte noch einmal die Gelegenheit nutzen und auf unser morgiges Puppet-Webinar zum Thema „Puppet: Provisionierung von VMware“ aufmerksam machen. Das Webinar findet morgen um 10:30 Uhr statt. Die Registrierung erfolgt wie immer über unsere Webinar-Seite.
Da Virtualisierungslösungen mittlerweile in fast jeder IT-Landschaft eingesetzt werden, wollen wir aufzeigen wie man diese sinnvoll mit einem Configuration Management Tool wie Puppet kombinieren kann. Wer Puppet noch nicht kennt, dem empfehle ich unser Webinar-Archiv von der Open Source Variante von Puppet und der Puppet Enterprise Variante als kleine Vorbereitung.
Lennart und ich freuen uns bereits.
Bis morgen!

Christian Stein
Christian Stein
Manager Sales

Christian kommt ursprünglich aus der Personalberatungsbranche, wo er aber schon immer auf den IT Bereich spezialisiert war. Bei NETWAYS arbeitet er als Manager Sales und berät unsere Kunden in der vertrieblichen Phase rund um das Thema Monitoring. Gemeinsam mit Georg hat er sich Mitte 2012 auch an unserem Hardware-Shop "vergangen".

Welcome to Berlin – Puppet Camp 2014

Puppet Camp started for Lennart, me and an audience of 66 persons yesterday with an introduction to puppet. I tried to cover different topics starting with the different components to hopefully helpful tips in designing infrastructure, workflow and modules while Lennart added a practical demo.
For the rest of the attendees puppet camp started with a warm welcome from Bernd and our partner puppetlabs who also provided the keynote. Andy Parker started with a quick poll and some nice giveaways before giving an insight look in puppetlabs philosophy and ecosystem around puppet.
Ger Apeldoorn talked about creating a puppet infrastructure instead of implementing a specific component. Like always I found some homework for me to do, this time having a deeper look on the hiera backend eyaml which adds encryption, the git extension gitflow and r10k, a deployment tool for puppet modules.
In his talk „Module (Re)writing the smart way“ Martin Alfke encouraged people to write and publish modules as a community also mentioned some important things to consider. He also gave good advise on how to find good modules provided by the community.
 


After Lunch Jos Boumans gave his talk about metrics and how these help to improve your it infrastructure. And he knows what he is talking about because his company is making a good revenue with providing metrics. These metrics are created using collectd, statsd and graphite with many many modules pushing their data to this solution. One of those is puppet which is also used to configure everything.
The pitfalls and antipattern shown by Felix Frank were quit nice and it is always helpful to learn from others mistakes instead of doing it wrong by your own.
Never had a deeper look into OpenBSD but it was quite interesting what challenges the OpenBSD community represented by Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse had to master to get puppet running on all the supported platforms.
Craig Dunn provided advise to mitigate the pitfalls we heard about earlier and additional patterns helping to improve your puppet code. I also encourage everybody to use the roles and profiles pattern perhaps many advanced users will notice that they are doing it this way anyway.
After many high level talks for the experienced users Steven Thwaites did a demo covering puppet and puppet enterprise which was quite nice especially for beginners.
Jordan Sissel gave a great talk on fpm and pleaserun, some nice tools to simplify and abstract packaging and running services. I like it, but I also have to disagree in some points. Mainly seeing myself as an administrator I prefer guidelines like those provided by fedora, file system hierarchy standard and manual work to get better supportable packages. But I fully agree on the usefulness also of the ELK stack (elastic search – logstash – kibana) he additionally talked about.
It was an awesome conference especially for networking with other puppet users. So I am looking forward to October 16th when the next puppet camp will take place in Dusseldorf. So save the day!
P.S.: I want to congratulate those passed the puppet certified professional exam that took place next to the conference.

Dirk Götz
Dirk Götz
Principal Consultant

Dirk ist Red Hat Spezialist und arbeitet bei NETWAYS im Bereich Consulting für Icinga, Puppet, Ansible, Foreman und andere Systems-Management-Lösungen. Früher war er bei einem Träger der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung als Senior Administrator beschäftigt und auch für die Ausbildung der Azubis verantwortlich wie nun bei NETWAYS.