Puppet User Group: Windows Edition
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Puppet provides support for managing Windows environments including Windows servers, applications, and Azure virtual machines. Puppet's Windows support includes Puppet agents, core resources for managing files, registry keys, services, and more. Puppet also supports additional Windows technologies like IIS, SQL Server, PowerShell DSC, Chocolatey, and Azure virtual machines. The roadmap outlines continued improvements and support for additional Windows features, applications, and cloud platforms.
Puppet User Group: Windows Edition
- 1. Puppet User Group Microsoft & Puppet
- 2. Windows is tier one.
- 4. Puppet invests millions of dollars enabling support for Windows.
- 5. Broad technology integration across the Microsoft stack Microsoft & Puppet 32- and 64- Bit Agents Platform Support Applications Azure Support
- 6. Puppet Windows Management Puppet Agent Applications / REST APIs Core Resources Management Abstractions File · ACL · Exec · Registry · Package · Service · Users · Groups · Scheduled Tasks IIS · Azure · SQL Server PowerShell · DSC · Chocolatey · WSUS Client 32- & 64- bit support Available resources
- 7. Azure on Puppet azure_vm { 'sample': ensure => present, location => 'eastus', image => 'canonical:ubuntuserver:14.04.2-LTS:latest', user => 'azureuser', password => 'Password', size => 'Standard_A0', resource_group => 'testresacc01', } 7
- 8. Demo 8
- 9. DSC – Manages PowerShell DSC resources SQL Server – Installs and manages MS SQL Server 2012 & 2014 on Windows systems WSUS Client – Configure clients to point to update servers; schedule updates Azure – Provision and manage Azure VMs ACL – manage permissions with Windows ACLs Registry – manage Registry keys and values PowerShell – execute PowerShell commands with Puppet Reboot – Automatically reboot after install Supported Modules
- 10. IIS – install and manage IIS Chocolatey – package manager windows_env – manage Windows environment variables Windows Java – Install and manage Oracle Java on Windows pget – PowerShell alternative to wget or curl Approved Modules
- 11. Roadmap Supported Chocolatey Module Supported IIS Module Azure module improvements AWS module improvements Supported Active Directory Module Azure Marketplace Updates PE Client tools for Windows Windows Server 2016 Support WSUS Client improvements SQL Server module improvements
- 12. Resources PuppetConf 2015 Windows Track ● Chocolatey and Puppet - Rob Reynolds ● Azure for the Non-Microsoft Person - Scott Hanselman, MSFT & Rob Reynolds ● Better Together: Managing Windows with Puppet and DSC - Ethan Brown & Bruce Payette, MSFT ● Beyond the Registry - Matthew Stone, T-Mobile ● The Wild World of Windows: Developing for Puppet on Windows - Travis Fields, Nike Blog ● Chocolatey blog series ● PowerShell DSC blog series Docs ● Managing Windows Configurations Education ● Learning VM ● Puppet Essentials for Windows – Instructor-led ● Puppet Essentials for Windows - Virtual ● Puppet Fundamentals