Accelerate your Journey to Pervasive Automation 05.03.2018
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The document presents Puppet's latest product innovations aimed at achieving pervasive automation, featuring key products like Puppet Discovery and Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise. It highlights the challenges of automation, offers insights into managing resources across different environments, and introduces enhancements in Puppet Enterprise version 2018.1 LTS. Additionally, it mentions new partnerships and capabilities for improved infrastructure management and automation across different platforms.
Accelerate your Journey to Pervasive Automation 05.03.2018
- 1. Accelerate your journey to pervasive automation Puppet’s latest product innovations
- 2. Today’s speakers Matthew Arout Customer Marketing Manager Carl Caum Product Manager Reid Vandewiele Solutions Architect Ryan Coleman Product Manager
- 3. Agenda The Journey to Pervasive Automation New Products from Puppet ● Puppet Discovery ● Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise ● Puppet Enterprise 2018.1 New Partnerships and Integrations
- 4. Confidential - do not distribute 4 The Journey to Pervasive Automation
- 5. Confidential - do not distribute 5 Challenges to Pervasive Automation Hard to Know What You Have Hard to scale broadly and deeply Dev and Ops still siloed
- 6. Puppet Product Portfolio Puppet Enterprise Puppet PipelinesPuppet Discovery Know what you have. Know where to start. Discover Bridge development and operations. Deliver Manage at scale. Keep it compliant. Manage| |
- 7. Know what you have. Know where to start. 7
- 8. 8 Puppet Discovery, the first step to pervasive automation Discover resources and act on them within a single product Confidential
- 9. 9 Know what’s running no matter where it runs. On-premises, in the cloud, and in your containers ● Unified view across hybrid resource providers ● Intuitive dashboards and filtered list views Be able to answer questions like… ● What are all the hosts that have a particular package installed? ● What files are changing on my running containers? ● Which operating system versions do I have? Confidential
- 10. 10 Take action within the same product. Discovery is the only solution that enables users to take action on discovered resources. ● Puppet Discovery is a dynamic, automated dashboard of record of your IT inventory. ● Puppet Discovery is the only product that allows you to take action on newly discovered resources without switching to another tool. ● Actions include: ○ Manage any service ○ Install Puppet agent Coming soon: ○ Partner agents ○ Networking devices ○ “Bring your own Tasks” Confidential
- 11. 11 Seamlessly bring resources under Puppet management Discovery allows you to quickly bring unmanaged resources under Puppet management ● Quickly identify all of the resources that are not under Puppet Management ● Install the Puppet Agent with a few clicks ● Apply Puppet models and execute orchestrated tasks via Puppet Enterprise Confidential
- 12. The Puppet Discovery Platform
- 13. Get Started with Puppet Discovery Visit puppet.com/discovery to try it out today!
- 14. Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise Continuously deliver infrastructure code across your environments faster and with more confidence 14
- 15. 15 Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise Continuously deliver infrastructure code faster and with more confidence Confidential
- 16. 16Confidential A simple, prescriptive workflow to build, test and deliver Puppet code across environments.
- 17. 17 Simplify continuous delivery for infrastructure ● Create continuous delivery pipelines for your infrastructure code in minutes ● Automatically build, test and promote changes to your Puppet control repos and modules ● Visualize modules your Puppet control repos depend on
- 18. 18 Unify Dev and Ops workflows ● Fully control how infrastructure changes are delivered across environments: ○ Automatically create, merge and delete Git branches depending on desired deployment policy ○ Create rolling deployments with one-click rollbacks ○ Set approvals and gates at every stage ● Get full visibility into infrastructure code changes
- 19. Puppet Enterprise 2018.1 LTS Manage at scale. Keep it compliant. 19
- 20. What’s New in 2018.1 LTS ● Significant updates in this Long Term Support (LTS) release (supported for 18 months) ○ Take advantage of Puppet’s latest innovations ● New capability: set RBAC per node in Puppet tasks ○ Scale Puppet Tasks across teams with more control and visibility ● New capability: easier to backup and recover Puppet infrastructure ○ More easily incorporate Puppet Enterprise into your disaster recovery plan ● Improved UX: optimized views, faster load times and contextual help ○ Reduce the Puppet learning curve and time spent managing your infrastructure ● New support for Puppet Development Kit (PDK) and Resource API ○ Develop, test, and implement Puppet modules faster 20Confidential
- 21. 21 Long-term support release Significant changes since the last Puppet Enterprise LTS released in 2016 ● Execute one-off change in any language with Puppet Tasks ● Run Puppet from anywhere ● Discover unmanaged packages with Package Inspector ● Scale out nodes and resource data (runs on 100,000 vs. 10,000 nodes) ● High Availability ● Japanese language support ● Support for ARM-based systems (aarch64) ● Puppet-based Installer (simpler and self-healing upgrades) ● Write better code and modules faster with the Puppet Development Kit (PDK) Confidential
- 22. 22 New capability: set RBAC per node in Puppet Tasks Scale Puppet Tasks across teams with more control and visibility Improve visibility into “who does what” with Puppet Tasks Get more control over your infrastructure management: ● Set which tasks can be run by which RBAC roles ● Specify on which nodes those roles can execute Tasks Confidential
- 23. 23 Easier backup and recovery of Puppet infrastructure More easily incorporate Puppet Enterprise into your disaster recovery plan ● Puppet Enterprise is now easier to incorporate into your disaster recovery plan, thanks to new tooling that makes easier the backup and recovery of Puppet infrastructure ● High-availability capability makes Puppet Enterprise always ready if there is a problem anywhere in your data center or cloud Slide in First Meeting Deck Confidential
- 24. 24 Improved UX: optimized views, faster load times and contextual help Reduce the Puppet learning curve and time spent managing your infrastructure ● Optimized views and load times, which means faster screen refreshes even if you are managing +100,000 nodes. ● Contextual help with inline documentation available on the console. ● Users now have the flexibility to target their infrastructure using PQL or node groups – PQL to target precise resources, node groups to target broad groupings of nodes. ● Improved accessibility for users who work exclusively with a keyboard, use screen readers or see color differently. Confidential
- 25. 25 New support and KBase for PDK and Resource API Develop, test, and implement Puppet modules faster ● Puppet Development Kit (PDK) is a collection of tools that help users develop, test, convert and update modules from a Windows, Linux or Mac workstation with a simple unified interface. ● The Resource API offers an easier way to develop Puppet types and providers when building modules. ● Starting with version 1.5 and later, both tools are now officially supported for PE customers, which means that the PDK is backed by guaranteed response times and a solid knowledge base. Confidential
- 26. 26 Azure and Windows Updates First-class support for managing Azure and Windows infrastructure ● Auto-generated Azure ARM module: Supports new Azure resources and services as they’re available. ● Windows Scheduled Task module: Supports the v2 API for Windows Task Scheduler for more sophisticated triggers and scheduling. ● DSC Lite module: Lightweight alternative to the original DSC module with advanced options to more easily manage class-based and custom resources. ● Azure Accelerator Program: Joint program with Microsoft and Barracuda to accelerate cloud migration. Email azure-accelerator@puppet.com for details. Confidential
- 27. Cisco Modules ● Cisco IOS module private beta release: Module enables agentless management of Cisco IOS-based switches, including Cisco Catalyst switches. Private beta gives customers early access and input. Email networkingbeta@puppet.com for details. ● Cisco ACI module: Developed by Cisco. Enables customers to manage Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) configurations with Puppet. Available in May. ● Cisco Meraki module: Define Meraki organization administrators across all networks and multiple organizations. Available this month. 27Confidential Agentless management of Cisco devices makes automation pervasive across networks
- 28. Technology Alliance Partner Program (TAPP) ● TAPP partners signed since last October ○ Nutanix ○ Lenovo ○ Barracuda ○ Xmatters ● Modules moved to Supported or Partner Supported status ○ Barracuda - Partner Supported ○ CyberArk - Partner Supported ○ Lenovo RackSwitch - Partner Supported ● Talking Tech Webinar Series ○ CloudPassage ○ F5 ○ CyberArk ○ Barracuda 28Confidential New Partnerships to Extend Automation to Cloud, Networking and Security
- 29. Q & A