Puppet powershell
- 1. Windows: Having It’s Ass Kicked by Puppet and PowerShell since 2012 Paul Stack http://www.paulstack.co.uk http://twitter.com/stack72 mail: buildstuff@paulstack.co.uk
- 2. About Me Develop software for OpenTable DevOps Extremist Conference Junkie
- 3. Agenda Classic infrastructure management Snowflake / Phoenix Servers / Immutable Infrastructure Infrastructure as Code PowerShell as a way to manage Windows PowerShell + Puppet = Kicking Windows’ Ass
- 6. People are generally rubbish at performing manual repetitive tasks
- 7. SnowFlake Server Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SnowflakeServer.html Image courtesy of Liz West and under Creative Commons License
- 8. Machines are much more reliable at performing repetitive tasks
- 9. Image courtesy of FoodBev Photos and under Creative Commons License
- 10. Can’t we automate our manual run books?
- 12. Phoenix Servers Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PhoenixServer.html
- 16. Simian Army
- 17. Immutable infrastructure Chad Fowler: http://chadfowler.com/blog/2013/06/23/immutable-deployments/
- 18. Code Is Better
- 21. Managing Windows Server 2008 with PowerShell
- 22. Puppet
- 25. Demo
- 27. Get a good development environment
- 28. Puppet Forge
- 29. Puppet integration with Windows will get better and better
- 30. The Foreman
- 31. Summary Code is much better for managing servers than people PowerShell is a tool to use when working with Windows Puppet compliments what PowerShell does perfectly in a DSL format Windows Server management is no longer a pain in the ass.