Sun Microsystems Puppet Case Study
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Sun Microsystems uses Puppet to manage over 650 servers across three data centers. Puppet helps ensure consistent configurations, improves efficiency of patching and updating systems, and allows Sun to meet compliance standards. A lead engineer says Puppet saves them time by automating routine tasks and ensuring configurations remain consistent across all servers.
Sun Microsystems Puppet Case Study
- 1. puppet labs Case Study “Puppet has greatly simplified many of my standard tasks. Security patching no longer involves the headache of running routines to see which systems were vulnerable and then implementing batch jobs to update effected systems. Now I just run a Puppet profile Sun Microsystems uses and it is taken care of.” - Martin Englund, Lead Engineer, Sun Microsystems Puppet to improve efficiency, accelerate system updates INduSTRY: Web Software and ensure consistent ChAllENGE: Consistent Configurations configurations across all their SOluTION: Puppet web server architecture RESulTS: As a premier online brand, Sun Microsystems has strict requirements for high Manage over 650 Sun servers performance and guaranteed uptime for their top online properties like sun.com, java. across three U.S. data centers com, mysql.com, openoffice.org and others. Sun needed a system administration tool while improving system that went beyond internally maintained scripts and batch jobs to ensure that their consistency and meeting servers were configured consistently and updated in a timely manner. compliance standards STARTING ENVIRONMENT KEY OBJECTIVES • Managed over 650 Sun servers across three U.S. data centers • Uptime & Reliability – Ensure uptime and in Menlo Park, CA, San Francisco, CA and Las Vegas, NV. reliability of servers supporting the web and database • Responsible for software and operating system configurations applications for key online properties on all servers supporting Internet domains including sun. • Compliance – Comply with internal Sun security com, java.com, mysql.com, openoffice.org and others. requirements including timely distribution of security • Used internally developed SSH scripts to push changes and patches packages out to systems. • Configuration Control – Maintain common • Key challenges included time to deployment of critical system configuration of all servers to ensure a consistent changes and guaranteed ongoing configuration of Internet environment for the application engineers resources. • Change Monitoring and Alerts – Identify changes to servers that would take the system out of compliance with the standard configuration
- 2. puppet labs Case Study “With Puppet I don’t have to worry anymore. BENEFITS OBTAINEd Once I have written • System Consistency – Provided a consistent environment for their application en- and deployed the gineers. Eliminated worries about inconsistent configuration of key Internet servers. profiles I can count on • Improved Efficiency – Accelerated identification of vulnerable or out of date sys- Puppet ensuring timely tems to be prioritized for patching and upgrade. They use Puppet to deploy vulner- updates and consistent ability mitigations until they can schedule time to patch. Prior to Puppet identifying configurations across vulnerable systems was a time intensive process. all my systems. More • Met Compliance Standards – Puppet allowed Sun to meet company and industry than anything Puppet compliance requirements. Provided alerts for any system that went out of configura- saves me time that I tion to established security configurations. simply can’t afford • Increased Visibility – Provided comprehensive information on system hardware, to lose in supporting type, software and versions. This wasn’t an original objective, but has provided sig- nificant benefits and replaced their homegrown system for tracking this information. my data centers.” - Martin Englund, Lead Engineer, Sun Microsystems WhY PuPPET? • Cross Platform Support – Despite their servers almost uniformly running Sun Solaris, Puppet’s cross platform support for other versions of Unix was important in their decision to provide a consistent platform for management of even the occasional non-Solaris system. • Open Source Solution – Sun is an open source company and this was an important factor in their choice of Puppet. They had recently had a bad experience with a commercial software package that was acquired by a larger company where their investment was lost and they had to start over when the product line was discontinued. About Puppet labs • Easier Trouble Shooting – Open source software was easier to trouble shoot because they had access to the source code. When they experienced a problem it was Puppet Labs develops and commercially supports Puppet, the much easier to track down the source of the problem and solve it. leading open source platform for • Easy to Deploy and Maintain – Puppet was easy to deploy and support. The enterprise systems management. scripting language was easy for his team to learn and write routines for system With millions of nodes under management and thousands of updates. users, including Twitter, NYSE, Zynga, Genentech, Match.com, eBay, NYU, and Oracle, Puppet standardizes the way IT staff deploy and manage infrastructure in the enterprise and the cloud. www.puppetlabs.com 877-575-9775 411 NW Park Avenue, 5th floor Portland OR 97209 © 2010 Puppet Labs All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.