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Puppet and how to misuse it

This talk discusses the strategies for managing software updates in complex large environments using puppet. How to implement gradual updates? How to control the velocity and monitor for issues? What are the best practices and which approaches to avoid? Lessons learnt from implementing configuration management at large organizations with 10k+ hosts.

Delivered at: Tampa Bay DevOps Meetup

Audience: developers SAs devops

Brief outline:

  • Configuration management and idempotency
  • LXC/LXD container technology
  • Masterless puppet
  • Facter, Puppet server
  • Managing software upgrades
— `If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, `you wouldn't talk about wasting IT. It's HIM.'
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