Puppet Talk on FUDCon

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Hi,

I'm planning a Puppet (Config. Mgmt.) BarCamp session on FUDCon in 
Boston, but right now I'm thinking we may as well attach a HackFest 
session or two to see if we can implement some of the stuff that puppet 
does but the Fedora Infrastructure doesn't use (yet), or otherwise 
improve the puppet infrastructure we use.

It should be a fairly interesting set of sessions since the Fedora 
Infrastructure team has been working with puppet for quite a while now, 
as have I but in many different organizations.

This has driven me to come up with puppetmanaged.org[1], a collection of 
puppet modules primarily focused on Red Hat- and Fedora- based systems, 
and a way to share those modules amongst a larger audience. I guess 
we'll be talking about using those modules as well, or improving them so 
that they meet the requirements of Fedora Infrastructure, or applying 
them to Fedora's puppet infra, maybe.

Additionally, the modules on puppetmanaged.org are based around a 3-way 
staging model, that allows you to distinguish between development, 
testing and production environments, as well as set a "standard" for 
overriding and/or extending the modules with customized manifests, and 
storing configurations in a database (exported resources for those of 
you familiar with them).

With that functionality, the puppetmaster on puppetmanaged.org now 
manages nodes in different organizations -with, of course, very 
different profiles, needs and expectations-, allows "satellite" 
puppetmasters to be deployed in an organization (satellite puppetmasters 
themselves are managed by master.puppetmanaged.org but manage 
*.organization.tld nodes). My experience with puppet has also allowed me 
to organize workshops for customers, create a good reader[2] in the 
process, and (co-)maintaining the entire puppet/ruby stack in Fedora and 
EPEL.

Needless to say, development paths of Fedora Infra's puppet and 
puppetmanaged.org have never aligned and as such -at FUDCon- I think 
we've got the opportunity to review each other setup and see what it is 
we can use/learn.

If you have any questions, remarks or ideas to talk about during FUDCon 
-whether you can make it or not-, I'd like to hear about them.

I'll hopefully see those of you attending FUDCon!

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip

[1] http://git.puppetmanaged.org/
[2] http://www.kanarip.com/courses/puppet/puppet.pdf