Roundup ‘13 The Puppet Ecosystem

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Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup in Crested Butte, CO

Configuration Management Tool (open source) :

   Puppet

   Chef

   CFEngine

Using Puppet/Chef with Git

Running "headless" (no server)

   Puppet Apply

   Chef solo

Baking the master image

   VMware or VirtualBox for test prod

   Vagrant  for developer env.

Running the system

   MCollective

   Rundeck

Editor for Puppet/Chef:

   vim

   Gepeto (A Puppet IDE based on Eclipse)

Other tools from then Ecosystem

   TheForeman

   Hiera

   PuppetDB

   Puppet Dashboard

Puppet offers integration with Nagios monitoring tool, and its common fork (Icinga, Shinken)

Running Puppet on the JVM with JRuby

Book recommendation: ProPuppet

OpsWork, Chef based tooling for Amazon

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• Kirsty Doherty, Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork

• Theme Music:

• Opening "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),

• written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.

• Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.

• Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg

• Closing Juan Carlos Jimenez In the House (Intro No. 1)

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