Puppet 201: Advanced Puppet (How to use Puppet like an adult)

Spreker: Benjamin Kero

Abstract

At Mozilla's Operations team, we've chosen Puppet for the configuration management of the thousands of beautiful snowflakes we manage. With our large scale, we've run into issues and obscure requirements not yet encountered my many deployments. Come learn about the challenges, triumphs, and facepalms we've encountered along the way. You'll also be learning how to avoid many of the pitfalls and traps common to scaling a configuration management system and how to have other groups deploying code on your systems without losing your (and your infrastructure's) sanity.

Biografie

Ben is a systems administrator with Mozilla's Web Operations team, where he deals with the nuances of administrating Mozilla's *large* server infrastructure and web stacks. Previously, Ben worked as a community systems administrator for the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, where he helped to maintain the infrastructure for dozens of high-profile open source projects, including Drupal and kernel.org.

Based in Portland, Oregon, he speaks at conferences worldwide on all things DevOps and scaling large scale systems. He also participates in many local user groups such as the PDXPUG (Puppet User Group), Portland State University's Braindump Program, and the OSU Linux User's Group. He recently completed a book (Pro Puppet V2, Apress Publishing).