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Title:

Systems Building Systems: Puppet Automated Infrastructure

Your vote:
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Organizer:
Andrew Shafer, Reductive Labs
Description:
So you want to build the next killer platform, it's going to be facetwitter 3.0... You can run on that old Pentium in the basement, right? What does it take to scale? What about the clouds? Who's going to manage all those machines? Fight the meatcloud, Puppet can manage...
Questions
Answered:
  1. Why would you want automated infrastructure? (O'Reilly Radar called it the 'Secret Sauce for Startups')
  2. What is Puppet and why will it make you awesome?
  3. Why is Puppet Free and Open Source?
  4. Who is using Puppet? (Google, Stanford, Sony, Harvard, Gaurdian, iLike, Redhat...)
  5. What will all the sysadmins do?
  6. How does Puppet help collapse the complexity of scale?
  7. What is the best way to get started with Puppet?
  8. What does Puppet code look like and how can I add functionality?
  9. What are some common Puppet pitfalls and misconceptions?
  10. What are the next set of problems once you automate the infrastructure? (Change management and Puppet's future)
Level:
Advanced
Category:
New Technology / Next Generation
Type:
Dual
Event:
SXSW Interactive 2009
James Turnbull
on 27/10/08
Configuration management is the glue that allows organisations to build powerful and scalable applications - the last thing you want to do is worry about infrastructure when you're building the next killer application.

Puppet is the next generation of configuration management tools. It's open source, highly flexible, powerful and extensible. It's heavily used in the Web 2.0 world by organisations such as Twitter, Google and a number of leaders in cloud computing.
Michael Cote'
on 27/10/08
Peel back the layers of many popular web companies now-a-days and you'll find Puppet. As James says above, it's used by a suprisingly high number of big name web companies to keep their machines healthy and configured. The most important thing is that it helps developers of those sites focus on the actual applications and web sites rather than the boring and tedious systems administration tasks.
Gustin Prudner
on 27/11/08
this is great stuff, we use poolparty.rb to scale EC2 easily and puppet is the magic underneath. would love to learn more about puppet and how it makes managing, or lack-of, large systems easier.
John Willis
on 2/12/08
Puppet seems to be ubiquitous in the modern web 2.0 scalable infrastructures.
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