Speakers

Dawn Foster

Director of Open Source Community Strategy, VMware

Dawn is the Director of Open Source Community Strategy at VMware within the Open Source Program Office. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like Intel and Puppet with expertise in community building, strategy, open source software, metrics, and more. She is passionate about... Read More →

Wednesday August 21, 2013 9:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Gold Fairmont Hotel

Trainings & Workshops

Audience Beginner

9:00am PDT

Developer Day: Optional Getting Started Tutorial (registration required)

If you don’t regularly write modules now, you can attend an optional tutorial to help you get started. We’ll help you set up your environment, and make sure that you are prepared to write new modules or contribute to existing ones. The day will include time to get everything installed, information about using GitHub for collaboration, and details about how to develop modules. After lunch, you can join the hacking sessions or participate in the unconference sessions.

Speakers

Ryan Coleman

Product Owner, Puppet Labs

Ryan is a product owner at Puppet Labs, responsible for the Puppet Forge. He used Puppet at Penn State to keep up with demands in Penn State's central infrastructure teams before joining Puppet Labs as a professional services engineer. He has tackled building services like Shibboleth... Read More →

Wednesday August 21, 2013 9:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Venetian Lobby Level

Trainings & Workshops

Audience Beginner

Developer Day Lunch

Wednesday August 21, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Terrace Terrace Level

Social Events

12:00pm PDT

Training Lunch

Wednesday August 21, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Crown Crown Room Level

Social Events

1:00pm PDT

Developer Day: Hacking Sessions (registration required)

Speakers

Dawn Foster

Director of Open Source Community Strategy, VMware

Wednesday August 21, 2013 1:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Gold Fairmont Hotel

Trainings & Workshops

Audience Beginner

1:00pm PDT

Developer Day: Unconference Sessions (registration required)

If you want to take a break from hacking on code or want to have a discussion with other people on any topic, you can participate in the unconference sessions. Anyone can propose an unconference session, and we’ll have people on hand to explain the process if you have never attended an unconference.

Speakers

Michael Stahnke

Director of Software Engineering, Puppet Labs

Michael Stahnke is a Software Engineering Director at Puppet Labs, where he was previously the Community Manager and where he built out the Release Engineering team as Release Manager. He came to Puppet Labs from Caterpillar, Inc. where he was an Infrastructure Architect, system administration... Read More →

Wednesday August 21, 2013 1:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Venetian Lobby Level

Trainings & Workshops

Audience Beginner

2:00pm PDT

Training and Developer Day PM Break

Wednesday August 21, 2013 2:00pm - 2:20pm PDT
Terrace Terrace Level

Social Events

5:00pm PDT

Attendee Registration

Pick-up your name badge, PuppetConf t-shirt, attendee badge and more.

Wednesday August 21, 2013 5:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Garden Room Lobby Level

Registration

5:30pm PDT

Demo: Cloud Automation

Cloud Automation / VMware Demo

Wednesday August 21, 2013 5:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Cirque Lobby Level

Demos & Hands-on Labs

5:30pm PDT

Demo: Continuous Delivery

Continuous delivery is a methodology for decreasing the time it takes for your organization to get code from planning into production. In this hands-on demo you'll explore a Puppet-powered continuous delivery workflow. Our early-stage demo integrates version control with Puppet configuration management and Continuous Integration tools.

Wednesday August 21, 2013 5:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Cirque Lobby Level

Demos & Hands-on Labs

5:30pm PDT

Demo: Puppet Enterprise Station

Puppet Enterprise Demo: Puppet Enterprise is the commercially supported, packaged release of Puppet, the leading open source solution for enterprise systems management, including data center automation and configuration management. Puppet automates the provisioning, patching, and configuration of operating system and application components across enterprise and cloud infrastructure. Puppet Enterprise packages the underlying components required, and bundles the requisite support and services necessary to support enterprise deployments.

During the demonstrations of Puppet Enterprise we'll walk through the major components of...

Understanding configuration management and DevOps
Introduction to the Puppet language and ecosystem
Demonstration of the features of Puppet Enterprise 3.x
Solutions demos of resource discovery, initial provisioning, application deployment
Demonstrations on Linux, Unix, and Windows platforms.

Demo: Puppet Enterprise Station

Understanding configuration management and DevOps
Introduction to the Puppet language and ecosystem
Demonstration of the features of Puppet Enterprise 3.x
Solutions demos of resource discovery, initial provisioning, application deployment
Demonstrations on Linux, Unix, and Windows platforms.

Thursday August 22, 2013 10:50am - 6:00pm PDT
Cirque Lobby Level

Demos & Hands-on Labs

10:50am PDT

Demo: Puppet Enterprise's Event Inspector

Thursday August 22, 2013 10:50am - 6:00pm PDT
Cirque Lobby Level

Demos & Hands-on Labs

10:50am PDT

Puppet Test Pilots

Help us make Puppet better. Evaluate new products and features in the setting of a user test.

Thursday August 22, 2013 10:50am - 6:00pm PDT
Cirque Lobby Level

Testing

11:00am PDT

Certification Testing

Puppet Certification Testing
Testing center open 11:00am - 6pm Thursday and Friday
Last exam will begin at 4:30pm

Speakers

Jamie Rosa

Continuous Delivery

Audience Advanced

11:10am PDT

Hands-on Lab: vCHS - Automating vSphere Provisioning and Management

Puppet Enterprise enables IT teams to automate VM lifecycle management and scale services quickly, reliably, and efficiently. You will walk through common configuration steps and automate repetitive tasks in VMware virtual environments.

Please note, to complete the hands-on exercises in this session you will need a laptop with at least 2GB of RAM.

Speakers

Jason Mero

Thursday August 22, 2013 11:10am - 12:00pm PDT
Empire Lobby Level

Demos & Hands-on Labs

11:10am PDT

How Do We Better Sell DevOps?

In this talk, I will share my top lessons learned over my years studying high performing IT organizations on how to sell the value of DevOps, and help other stakeholders and executives have their own a-ha moments. I will talk about specific stories about the circumstances that led to these a-ha moments, how they created DevOps champions in surprising places (e.g., Development, CTOs, Product Management, UX, Infosec) in organizations you'll recognize, and how they enabled implementing DevOps patterns that had awesome results.

Speakers

Gene Kim

Author "The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win", IT Revolution Press

Gene is a multiple award winning CTO, researcher and author. He was founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. He has written three books, including “The Visible Ops Handbook” and “The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win." Gene is a huge fan... Read More →

Thursday August 22, 2013 11:10am - 12:00pm PDT
Grand Ballroom Fairmont Hotel

DevOps

Audience Beginner

11:10am PDT

Getting Started with Puppet

When beginning a Puppet deployment are many decisions and trade-offs to make around code promotion, source code control, workflows, and resource modeling. These decisions will have a long-term impact on the viability of your Puppet deployment. In this session Michael will walk through some of those decisions along with how to begin your Puppet rollout.

Speakers

Michael Stahnke

Director of Software Engineering, Puppet Labs

Thursday August 22, 2013 11:10am - 12:00pm PDT
Venetian Lobby Level

Getting Started

Audience Beginner

11:10am PDT

Infrastructure as Data

We all know the benefits of infrastructure as code - version control, reusability, shareability, documentation, and so on. Another popular notion is that of code as data, by which code can be introspected, modified, and used for decision making. Combining the two ideas, the natural implication is that infrastructure is also data, and can be similarly introspected, modified, and used for decision making. In other words, we can do math on infrastructure. We'll look at some interesting ways this data can be filtered, combined, and applied to achieve results which would be difficult to describe directly in code.

Speakers

Nick Lewis

Software Developer, Puppet Labs

Nick Lewis is a software developer at Puppet Labs and one of the co-authors of PuppetDB.

Thursday August 22, 2013 11:10am - 12:00pm PDT
Crystal Fairmont Hotel

Products & Technologies

Audience Intermediate

12:00pm PDT

Lunch

Thursday August 22, 2013 12:00pm - 1:30pm PDT
Terrace Terrace Level

Social Events

1:30pm PDT

Introduction to the Puppet Partner Program

Introduction to the Puppet Partner Program: Are you a consultant that would like to work on Puppet Projects? Or, Are do you work for a Reseller or VAR interested in knowing more about selling Puppet Enterprise? Come to this session to learn more about the Puppet Partner Program benefits and requirements.

Speakers

Jose Palafox

Head of Channel Sales, Puppet Labs

Jose Palafox is an early employee at Puppet Labs. He's held positions in operations, marketing, community, and sales. He now heads up the Puppet Partner Program.

Thursday August 22, 2013 1:30pm - 2:00pm PDT
California Mezzanine Level

Trainings & Workshops

1:30pm PDT

3 Years of Puppet at Cisco: The Secrets to Our Success

WebEx Social (WxS) is an enterprise social networking product by Cisco. Customers can subscribe to WxS as a cloud service or they can purchase a license and run WxS on-premise. Puppet is at the core of our technology stack that includes MongoDB, Solr, RabbitMQ, memcached, ZooKeeper, Nagios, and Graphite. We love Puppet. We pioneered embedding Puppet in Cisco products 3 years ago and have been tireless advocates ever since. We have learned valuable technology/process/culture lessons and developed reusable patterns for: - Scaling to thousands hosts with Puppet - Ensuring host upgrades are 100% reliable - Avoiding Puppet codebase spaghetti - Detecting and eliminating system drift at scale - Creating a culture of shared responsibility through architecture design

Speakers

Keith Chambers

Technical Leader, Cisco

Keith Chambers is the platform architect for the WebEx Social product at Cisco. He joined Cisco in 2000 and is based out of Seattle Washington. In his current role, Keith leads the engineering team responsible for deploying and operating WebEx Social. Prior to joining the WebEx Social... Read More →

Ryan Uber

Software Engineer, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Ryan Uber is a software engineer for Cisco's WebEx Social platform. He joined the company in 2011 and resides in San Jose, California. Ryan comes from a background in linux systems administration and programming. At Cisco, he re-implemented a script-based deployment system in Puppet... Read More →

Thursday August 22, 2013 1:30pm - 2:20pm PDT
Gold Fairmont Hotel

Case Studies

Audience Beginner

1:30pm PDT

Puppet Labs Powered OpenShift

OpenShift is an open source Platform as a Service which is built on a collection of technologies including Puppet and MCollective. This talk will explain our usage of Puppet on projects like OpenShift Origin which uses Vagrant and Puppet and will also cover our usage of MCollective to orchestrate events across a volatile infrastructure environment. Get a glimpse under the covers of OpenShift and see how we use Puppet and MCollective to power a market leading PaaS.

Speakers

Matt Hicks

Director of Engineering, OpenShift, Red Hat

Matt Hicks is one of the founding members of the Red Hat OpenShift team. He has spent over a decade in software engineering with a variety of roles in development, operations, architecture and management. His real expertise is in bridging the gap between developing code and actually... Read More →

Thursday August 22, 2013 1:30pm - 2:20pm PDT
Fountain Fairmont Hotel

Cloud Automation

Audience Beginner

1:30pm PDT

Oscar: Rapid Iteration with Vagrant and Puppet Enterprise

When trying to debug software problems it's critical to be able to reproduce the original situation, and Puppet Enterprise is no exception to this. The Puppet Labs support team needs a way to rapidly reproduce customer issues across a wide range of operating systems and various versions of Puppet Enterprise. Oscar is a set of Vagrant plugins that handles machine provisioning and configuration to install Puppet Enterprise. It's designed to make building a Puppet Enterprise as simple as running `vagrant up`. While Oscar was originally built for supporting Puppet Enterprise, it provides a general platform for developing and testing against Puppet Enterprise. This talk will go over the history of Oscar, the current state, how it's used, and where to get it.

Speakers

Adrien Thebo

Software Engineer, Puppet Labs

Adrien Thebo has been in the Operations/Software development field since 2005, starting at small IT shop in Boise, Idaho. He started at Puppet Labs in 2011 on the Operations team, and used Puppet to run the Puppet Labs infrastructure. In 2013 he transferred to the Community platform... Read More →

Thursday August 22, 2013 1:30pm - 2:20pm PDT
French Fairmont Hotel

Continuous Delivery

Audience Intermediate

1:30pm PDT

Nobody Has To Die Today: Keeping The Peace With The Other Meat Sacks

A frank (and, frankly, loud) discussion about the kinds of miscommunication that arise between developers and operations, how it leads to trouble and possible ways we can avoid (figurative) violence in the workplace using both social techniques as well as tooling.

Speakers

Mykel Alvis

Sr. DevOps Consultant, MomentumSI

Mykel Alvis has been a developer for over 34 years, primarily in assembler, C, Java and Groovy. Several years ago he switched from producing new features in software to producing new ways to deliver software.

Thursday August 22, 2013 1:30pm - 2:20pm PDT
Grand Ballroom Fairmont Hotel

DevOps

Audience Beginner

1:30pm PDT

What's New and Awesome in Puppet Enterprise 3

I'll lead an entertaining and informative session about the updated and new features in Puppet Enterprise 3. This talk provides a guided tour through both the Dashboard and the text-editor interaction with Puppet infrastructure including mcollective and Live Management, Windows support, and some awesome under-the-hood tricks you can use in your modules.

Speakers

Eric Sorenson

Platform Product Owner, Puppet Labs

After 16 years working as a systems/network administrator in the Bay Area, Eric relocated to Portland in 2012 to further develop his passion for awesome configuration management tools. When he's not grooming the backlog for Puppet, he's out enjoying Oregon's trails with his partner... Read More →

Thursday August 22, 2013 1:30pm - 2:20pm PDT
Venetian Lobby Level

Getting Started

Audience Beginner

1:30pm PDT

Puppet Without Root

Puppet can be used effectively and at scale without running as root. In many organizations, particularly large ones, different teams are responsible for different pieces of the infrastructure. In my case, I am on a team responsible for installation, configuration, upkeep, and monitoring of an application, but we are denied root access. Despite this, we have a rich puppet infrastructure thats saves us time and reduces configuration drift. I will present our model for success in this kind of limited environment, including recipes for using puppet as non root and some encouraging words and ideas for those who want to implement puppet, but the rest of their organization isn't ready yet.

Speakers

Spencer Krum

Systems Admin, UTI Worldwide

Spencer is a Linux and application administrator with UTI Worldwide, a shipping and logistics firm. He lives and works in Portland. He has been using Linux and Puppet for years. Spencer is co-authoring (with William Van Hevelingen and Ben Kero) the second edition of Pro Puppet by... Read More →

Thursday August 22, 2013 1:30pm - 2:20pm PDT
Crystal Fairmont Hotel

Products & Technologies

Audience Advanced

1:30pm PDT

Hands-on Lab: Intro to Puppet - Roles and Profiles

This hands-on session will introduce students to Puppet's latest pattern for writing reusable Puppet modules -- Roles and Profiles.

The Roles and Profiles pattern adds high-level and low-level business logic to module authoring by leveraging best practices including data separation, parameterized classes, and module composition. Roles and Profiles offers a way to reduce code duplication, simplify node classification, and eliminate the need to edit modules directly.

Please note, to complete the hands-on exercises in this session you will need a laptop with at least 2GB of RAM.

Speakers

Hunter Haugen

Forge Module Engineer, Puppet Labs

Hunter Haugen spent his early childhood with the linux text console instead of video game consoles and has been traveling the world as a Puppet consultant before settling down in Portland Oregon as a community module engineer. In his spare time he enjoys long-distance bicycling, motorbiking... Read More →

Thursday August 22, 2013 1:30pm - 4:00pm PDT
Empire Lobby Level

Demos & Hands-on Labs

2:00pm PDT

How to Sell Puppet Enterprise - Duncan Journee & Mohamed Yassin

How to Sell Puppet Enterprise: For new and experienced partners learn from our top two resellers how they successfully sell Puppet Enterprise and related services.

Speakers

Duncan Journee

Melinda has been with Puppet Labs for 3 years and, not so coincidentally, this will be her 3rd year running design jams at PuppetConf. She worked on the Forge website team for a couple years, but for the past several months has been focusing on the future of Puppet Enterprise.

JD Welch

Sr UX Designer, Puppet Labs

J.D. is Senior User Experience Designer at Puppet Labs. He's been making interfaces for system and network administrators for the majority of his career, for organizations like USENIX, WatchGuard and Microsoft, before joining Puppet. Away from the office, he's into cooking, baking... Read More →

Thursday August 22, 2013 2:20pm - 4:00pm PDT
Hunt Mezzanine Level

Trainings & Workshops

2:30pm PDT

Introduction to the Puppet Partner Portal & The 2013/14 Partner Roadmap

Introduction to the Puppet Partner Portal & the 2013/14 Roadmap: New and experience partners will get a hands on experience with the new Puppet Partner Portal, we will cover the process to retrieve and report on opportunity statuses. We will also offer hands on training for the new Puppet Enterprise Sales Engineering Demo for Partners which seamlessly allows our partners to demo Puppet Enterprise to their clients."

Speakers

Jose Palafox

Thursday August 22, 2013 3:10pm - 4:00pm PDT
Venetian Lobby Level

Getting Started Puppet Forge & Puppet Modules

Audience Beginner

3:10pm PDT

DSL Quest: A WAT Safari

You are standing in an open field, west of a programming language with no specification. ENTER COMMAND. In mid-2012, docs.puppetlabs.com published a completely rewritten reference to the Puppet domain-specific language (DSL). This session is partly the story of how Nick built that, but it's mostly a safari of the weird crap he found along the way, a look at the personality of an undocumented system, a few tips for using Puppet as a calculator, some mission-creep schadenfreude, and maybe the faintest outline of a map for anyone trapped in a maze of twisty passages.

Speakers

Nick Fagerlund

Technical Writer, Puppet Labs

Nick Fagerlund was the very first dedicated technical writer at Puppet Labs. Like any responsible pet owner, Puppet Labs has since provided him with companions. Unlike a responsible pet owner, Puppet Labs has fed him after midnight and occasionally splashed water on him. Nick writes... Read More →

Thursday August 22, 2013 3:10pm - 4:00pm PDT
Crystal Fairmont Hotel

Products & Technologies

Audience Intermediate

3:10pm PDT

The Puppet Labs Workshop

Join the Puppet Labs Education team as we give a demonstration of our new online learning management system, the Puppet Labs Workshop. We will give you the opportunity to register and explore the available courses, and provide feedback and recommendations on the types of courses you would like to see included. We will also announce a new feature being added to the Workshop that will make taking courses even more interactive.

Speakers

Brad Hamilton

Instructional Designer, Puppet Labs

Brad is a purveyor of fine instruction for Puppet Labs. As an Instructional Designer he oversees the development of training materials for the instructor-led classes. Prior to joining Puppet Labs he led a small non-profit in the UK focusing on business and IT training.

Thursday August 22, 2013 3:10pm - 4:00pm PDT
California Mezzanine Level

Trainings & Workshops

4:00pm PDT

Getting Started

4:20pm PDT

Managing Cisco Devices Using Puppet

This session will provide an overview of the cisco developed puppet functionality for management and configuration of Cisco devices.

Speakers

Jason Pfeifer

Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco

Jason is a Cisco Technical Marketing Engineer focusing on programmability and automation of Cisco network devices. He is currently supporting, discussing, evangelizing, and writing applications against Cisco's onePK SDK. He also has a long term love affair with Cisco's Embedded Event... Read More →

Thursday August 22, 2013 4:20pm - 5:10pm PDT
Crystal Fairmont Hotel

Products & Technologies

Audience Intermediate

4:20pm PDT

Armatures Project Workshop / Social Hour

It takes you to make Puppet awesome. Puppet Armatures are proposals to enhance and add features to Puppet or other parts of the Puppet ecosystem. This community-focused process improves openness and transparency for both Puppet Labs-funded and contributor efforts.

Armatures are a great way to influence the future direction of Puppet, and provide a unique opportunity to collaborate directly with Puppet developers to design and implement the improvements and new work you care most about, and to rally support from the puppet community.

Join us for discussion of proposals moving through the process, and bring your ideas for new Armatures.

Speakers

JD Welch

Sr UX Designer, Puppet Labs

Thursday August 22, 2013 4:20pm - 6:00pm PDT
California Mezzanine Level

Trainings & Workshops

4:20pm PDT

VMware Cloud Automation: Concepts Expedition

Do you want to know which products comprise VMware's vCloud Automation Suite? Do you want to have a handle on foundational concepts within these products? How about knowing how the products integrate between themselves and with products in VMware and outside? Wondering how you can put best of VMware vCloud Automation and PuppetLabs products together to build the best hybrid cloud stack embracing DevOps principles? If so, then this core technical talk is for you. Be there or be square!

Speakers

Rags Rachamadugu

Moses Mendoza grew up near Portland, Oregon. Prior to working with Puppet Labs, Moses was primarily a System Administrator, most recently for the Art Institute of Portland as a Mac OSX System Administrator. At Puppet Labs, Moses Mendoza is working to build and scale the automated... Read More →

Matthaus Owens

Release Manager, Puppet Labs

Matthaus is half of the Release Engineering team at Puppet Labs. An Illinois transplant, he's been in Portland since 2005, and at Puppet Labs since 2011. He completed his Masters in Computer Science in 2012. He is a father of two wonderful girls.

Thursday August 22, 2013 5:10pm - 6:00pm PDT
French Fairmont Hotel

Continuous Delivery

Audience Intermediate

5:10pm PDT

Hands-on Lab: Getting Started Contributing to Puppet's OpenStack

Want an introduction to the available Puppet ecosystem around OpenStack?
During this session you will be introduced to the Puppet modules, our
OpenStack community, and how to bring up a complete Puppet driven
OpenStack deployment on Puppet Enterprise.

1. Get access to a Puppet Enterpise lab environment.
2. Use the Puppet Forge to download and install the OpenStack modules.
3. Bring up control control node.
4. Bring up openstack networking node.
5. Bring up two openstack compute nodes.
6. Introduce and tour OpenStack's Launchpad and Gerrit environments.

Please note, to complete the hands-on exercises in this session you will need a laptop with at least 2GB of RAM.

Speakers

Cody Herriges

Henrik has 30 years of experience architecting and developing software. Past positions include CTO of Cloudsmith Inc, leadership of BEA’s Java Run-Time Group (JRockit) and CTO and/or technical founder of several publicly and privately held software companies. Henrik works on the... Read More →

Thursday August 22, 2013 5:10pm - 6:00pm PDT
Crystal Fairmont Hotel

Products & Technologies

Audience Intermediate

6:00pm PDT

Meet the Puppet Labs Support Team

Have you logged a Puppet Labs support ticket? Have you ever wondered who was on the other end? Come find out at the Puppet Labs Support Team meet-up!

Thursday August 22, 2013 6:00pm - 7:00pm PDT
Terrace Terrace Level

Social Events

6:00pm PDT

LogicMonitor and Puppet Labs Party

Don’t miss out on the largest, must-attend party of PuppetConf 2013! Join LogicMonitor and Puppet Labs in the Fairmont’s swanky Tonga Room & Hurricane Bar. Mingle, network and enjoy specialty cocktails and hors d’oeuvres with live entertainment from the Tonga Room Band!

Thursday August 22, 2013 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Tonga Room Terrace Level

Social Events

8:00pm PDT

Attendee Lounge and Gaming

Thursday August 22, 2013 8:00pm - 11:59pm PDT
Diplomat Club Arcade Level

Social Events

8:30pm PDT

Werewolf Games

Speakers

Dawn Foster

Director of Open Source Community Strategy, VMware

Thursday August 22, 2013 8:30pm - 11:59pm PDT
Diplomat Club Arcade Level

Social Events

10:00pm PDT

Trivia

Compete for fabulous prizes in a contest of geeky knowledge!

Speakers

Celia Cottle

Support Engineer, Puppet Labs

Celia Cottle is a Support Engineer at Puppet Labs, where she troubleshoots and resolves issues for Puppet Enterprise customers. She comes from Portland State University, where she worked for the College of Engineering and Computer Science doing technical support, while getting her... Read More →

Thursday August 22, 2013 10:00pm - 11:00pm PDT
Diplomat Club Arcade Level

Social Events

7:00am PDT

5K Run

Friday August 23, 2013 7:00am - 8:00am PDT
Hotel Lobby Lobby Level

Social Events

Keynote: VMware vCHS, Puppet, and Project Zombie

Speakers

Nicholas Weaver

Cloud Automation Architect, Hybrid Cloud Service, VMware

Nicholas Weaver is the Cloud Automation Architect for VMware's vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) platform and the primary architect behind the vCHS automation framework (Project Zombie). He is also a co-creator of the PuppetLabs Razor project and many VMware-specific free tools. He previously... Read More →

Friday August 23, 2013 10:25am - 10:50am PDT
Grand Ballroom Fairmont Hotel

Keynote

Demo: Puppet Enterprise Station

Understanding configuration management and DevOps
Introduction to the Puppet language and ecosystem
Demonstration of the features of Puppet Enterprise 3.x
Solutions demos of resource discovery, initial provisioning, application deployment
Demonstrations on Linux, Unix, and Windows platforms.

Friday August 23, 2013 10:50am - 6:00pm PDT
Cirque Lobby Level

Demos & Hands-on Labs

10:50am PDT

Demo: Puppet Enterprise's Event Inspector

Friday August 23, 2013 10:50am - 6:00pm PDT
Cirque Lobby Level

Demos & Hands-on Labs

10:50am PDT

Puppet Test Pilots

Help us make Puppet better. Evaluate new products and features in the setting of a user test.

Friday August 23, 2013 10:50am - 6:00pm PDT
Cirque Lobby Level

Testing

11:00am PDT

Certification Testing

Puppet Certification Testing
Testing center open 11:00am - 6pm Thursday and Friday
Last exam will begin at 4:30pm

Speakers

Jamie Rosa

Friday August 23, 2013 11:00am - 6:00pm PDT
Far East Mezzanine Level

Testing

11:10am PDT

How Puppet Labs Tests and Validates Puppet Enterprise

When new code is written, its journey to making your life easier has only just begun. This presentation will chronicle how (with just a little bit of magic) new code makes its pilgrimage from the golden spires of GitHub and though the gauntlet of testing. We will watch as it is knighted a true Package of the Realm, and finally arrives at the fortress of your data center ready to help fight the gremlins that plague your infrastructure. I’ll show you how VSphere, Jenkins, and our custom code come together to bring Puppet Enterprise to our customers’ hands.

Speakers

Branan Purvine-Riley

QA Engineer, Puppet Labs

Branan joined Puppet Labs in the spring of 2012 as an intern working on OpenStack integrations. In late summer the same year he moved to the software delivery team, where he has focused on improving the tools and automations which allow Puppet Labs to ship great product.

Friday August 23, 2013 11:10am - 12:00pm PDT
Gold Fairmont Hotel

Case Studies

Audience Intermediate

11:10am PDT

Automation Generation: Or Why Skill is the Answer to Scale

Nick Weaver, Automation Architect, VMware, will deliver a technical drill-down on his VMworld talk, Automation Generation: Or Why Skill is the Answer to Scale.

Speakers

Nicholas Weaver

Cloud Automation Architect, Hybrid Cloud Service, VMware

Friday August 23, 2013 11:10am - 12:00pm PDT
Venetian Lobby Level

Cloud Automation

Audience Beginner

11:10am PDT

Razor: A Fresh Look at Provisioning

Over the past year, Razor has shown that there is huge demand for a
policy-driven, discovery-based provisioning solution for bare metal and
virtualized hardware. Simply put, Razor is the tool of choice to go from
zero to fully-installed, including handoff to Puppet, in the most flexible
and DevOps friendly way.

Based on our experience, we have revamped Razor significantly with an eye
towards easier deployment and maintenance, more flexibility in describing
the provisioning process, and more robust hardware support. This talk will
explain what has changed (all the things that made Razor hard to deploy),
what has stayed the same (all the cool features unique to Razor), and where
we see Razor's journey going from here.

Speakers

David Lutterkort

Principal Engineer, Puppet Labs

David is a principal engineer at Puppet Labs and the technical lead for Puppet Labs' development of Razor. Before joining Puppet Labs, David worked at Red Hat on a variety of management tools and served as the maintainer of Apache Deltacloud. He was one of the earliest contributors... Read More →

Friday August 23, 2013 11:10am - 12:00pm PDT
French Fairmont Hotel

Community

Audience Intermediate

11:10am PDT

Hands-on Lab: vCHS - Automating; vSphere Provisioning and Management

Speakers

Jason Mero

Puppet Forge & Puppet Modules

Audience Intermediate

11:10am PDT

Documentation Internationalization

Speakers

Lauren Rother

Technical Writter, Puppet Labs

Lauren Rother is a ukulele-playing, Portland-stereotype-fulfilling technical writer at Puppet Labs. She has 9 years of professional writing experience, and a background in Philosophy of Language. Lauren loves the challenge of analyzing complicated topics and breaking them down for... Read More →

Friday August 23, 2013 11:10am - 12:00pm PDT
California Mezzanine Level

Trainings & Workshops

12:00pm PDT

Lunch

Friday August 23, 2013 12:00pm - 1:30pm PDT
Terrace Terrace Level

Social Events

1:30pm PDT

Case Study: Green Field Implemenation of Puppet 3.0 at ESPN

At the end of 2012 ESPN undertook an effort to modernize its deployment and maintenance of linux based platform services. ESPN faced a challenging problem in that hundreds of servers needed to be puppetized yet the largest cluster of identical servers was only eight servers. Therefore having a puppet environment that was flexible, consistent, simple to understand and data driven was critical to success. This session looks at the architectural decisions made by ESPN while performing a green field implementation of Puppet 3.0 and reflects on the resulting good and bad of those decisions.

Speakers

Ben Schofield

Senior Application Architect, ESPN

Ben Schofield is the middleware architect for ESPN. With 11 years of IT experience working for Fortune 200 companies in the retail, insurance, financial and media industries, Ben has seen the good, bad and ugly of IT operations and management. He brings a unique perspective on how... Read More →

Friday August 23, 2013 1:30pm - 2:20pm PDT
Gold Fairmont Hotel

Case Studies

Audience Beginner

1:30pm PDT

A One Stop Solution for Puppet and OpenStack

Throughout the last year, we have been using and developing tools that allow us to have an IaaS where our data center is configured by Puppet and our virtualization and authentication needs are catered by Openstack. RedHat's foreman is our lifecycle management tool which we configured to support both bare metal and Openstack virtual machines. We use git to manage environments and hostgroup configurations and we will tell you how we deal with its security implications, how to store Hieradata secrets. Switching from a homebrew toolchain to open source tools like Facter, Foreman, Openstack has turned out into many contributions to these teams. Nearly everyone at CERN has started to wear the devops hat which brings new challenges in terms of development workflows and scalability.

Speakers

Daniel Lobato Garcia

Software Engineer, CERN

Daniel Lobato is a developer who has worked in very different environmentst, from data centers and mainframes to startups. Nowadays he has dived into the Agile Infrastructure team at CERN where the design and implementation of the new computing infrastructure is done. As for Puppet... Read More →

Friday August 23, 2013 1:30pm - 2:20pm PDT
Venetian Lobby Level

Cloud Automation

Audience Intermediate

1:30pm PDT

The Puppet Community: Current State and Future Plans

This session will start with a look at the community today. I will use our community metrics to take a look at all kinds of data about pull requests, bugs, mailing lists, IRC and more. In addition to the numbers, I'll also talk about some of our top contributors. We also have much to do to make the community better. I'll be presenting my plans for improvements that we'll be making to the Puppet community.

Speakers

Dawn Foster

Director of Open Source Community Strategy, VMware

Friday August 23, 2013 1:30pm - 2:20pm PDT
French Fairmont Hotel

Community

Audience Beginner

1:30pm PDT

Puppet Module Reusability - What I Learned from Shipping to the Forge

A simple search for "puppet-apache" on GitHub returns 70 separate repositories. An awful lot of people are busy reinventing the same configuration wheel. Configuration management tools promise write once, run anywhere code; but writing code that can be used by anyone looks like a lot of work. This presentation aims to show anyone familiar with Puppet how to write reusable modules and importantly how to make them compatible with already shared modules released on the Forge or elsewhere. We'll look at when and why testing a declarative language is actually useful, examples of good and bad modules and how to re-factor puppet code for re-usability. We'll also talk about potential improvements to Puppet that would make reuse easier.

Speakers

Gareth Rushgrove

Technical Architect, Government Digital Service

Gareth Rushgrove is now a technical architect at the Government Digital Service, part of the UK Government. He is mainly interested in configuration management, infrastructure and platform as a service, deployment and monitoring tooling and the whole devops community. He thinks when... Read More →

Friday August 23, 2013 1:30pm - 2:20pm PDT
Grand Ballroom Fairmont Hotel

DevOps

Audience Intermediate

1:30pm PDT

VMware and Puppet: How to Plan, Deploy & Manage Modern Applications

Are you looking to better understand how to use Puppet with VMware to rapidly deploy applications?Join us to learn how to easily model and automate delivery of modern applications to private or public clouds. We will walk through how to use Application Director and Puppet together to build, deploy and configure standardized multi-tier applications within minutes. Once these applications are deployed, you’ll learn how best to provide ongoing management and maintenance. We will show you how to manage drift, roll out updates and ensure consistency in your applications to reduceoutages and unnecessary downtime. This session will include a demo of common use cases and customer case examples.

Speakers

Nigel Kersten

CTO, Puppet Labs

Nigel came to Puppet Labs from Google HQ in Mountain View, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of one of the largest Puppet deployments in the world. He’s been a sysadmin for Linux and Mac deployments for longer than he is entirely comfortable calculating... Read More →

Becky Smith

Product Line Manager, VMware

Becky Smith has 16 years of experience in IT and System Management space. As a Product Line Manager for VMware's Enterprise Management business unit, Becky is responsible for product direction for operational, security and regulatory configuration and compliance management across... Read More →

Friday August 23, 2013 1:30pm - 2:20pm PDT
Crystal Fairmont Hotel

Products & Technologies

Audience Intermediate

1:30pm PDT

Anatomy of a Reuseable Module

What is a reusable Puppet module? What are its requirements? Why does it matter and why it's not always the best choice? And, most of all, HOW do you make reusable modules? This session is all about this: How to make modules written in a way that you can use them in many different environments (also with different OS) without modifying them.

Speakers

Alessandro Franceschi

Freelance Consultant, Lab42

Founded an Internet Service Provider in 1995. Founded a IT consulting firm in 1999. Decided that it was funnier to do technical stuff rather than to manage companies and became a freelance consultant in 2006. Discovered Puppet in 2007. Passed the last years pursuing an insane passion... Read More →

Friday August 23, 2013 1:30pm - 2:20pm PDT
Fountain Fairmont Hotel

Puppet Forge & Puppet Modules

Audience Intermediate

1:30pm PDT

Hands-on Lab: IPv6 - Success With IPv6 Networking

A hands-on lab where attendees will get to setup an IPv6 networking stack, an overview of common challenges, and an open discussion around real-world IPv6 deployments.

Please note, to complete the hands-on exercises in this session you will need a laptop with at least 2GB of RAM.

Speakers

Zach Leslie

Operation Engineer, Puppet Labs

Drawing on over a decade of experience, Zach now works at Puppet Labs where he was hired as the first Operations Engineer after the company's founding. He spends most of his time designing, studying, implementing and integrating modern infrastructure components in a quickly changing... Read More →

Friday August 23, 2013 1:30pm - 3:10pm PDT
Empire Lobby Level

Demos & Hands-on Labs

2:20pm PDT

Windows - Having Its Ass Kicked by Puppet and PowerShell Since 2012

Unix environments has fantastic tooling order to irridicate the need for manual server configuaration. Windows is completely behind in the use of these tools. PowerShell is now emerging as the tool for Windows admins to manage environments and deployments. Can PowerShell help to bring the devops culture to the Windows development world? In this session, I will demonstrate how PowerShell has become a tool necessary to know when working on a windows environment. The session will demonstrate how development environments can be built in a fraction of the time using Puppet and PowerShell. PowerShell is fast becoming a rockstar of the Windows configuration world. Since Puppet added support for Windows, we can really kick windows configuration management into submission

Speakers

Paul Stack

Principal Software Developer, OpenTable

Paul Stack is a London based developer working on the .net technology stack. Paul has spoken at various events throughout the world as well as extensively in the UK about his passion for continuous integration and continuous delivery and why they should be part of what developers... Read More →

Friday August 23, 2013 2:20pm - 3:10pm PDT
Gold Fairmont Hotel

Case Studies

Audience Intermediate

2:20pm PDT

Puppet, now with Google!

Speakers

Marc Cohen

Developer Programs Engineer, Google

Eric Johnson

Technical Program Manager, Google

Friday August 23, 2013 2:20pm - 3:10pm PDT
Venetian Lobby Level

Cloud Automation

Audience Beginner

2:20pm PDT

So You Want to Contribute to Puppet? A Getting Started Guide

Puppet is awesome because of the great contributions community members have made to it. You don’t need to be an expert developer or have contributed to many open source projects before to make great contributions to Puppet. But getting your code into Puppet can seem intimidating: what branch should you submit your pull request against on GitHub? What response should you expect to get? How do you run the tests to make sure you don’t break anything? How do you write Rspec tests to cover the features you’ve added? We’ll cover these topics and more so that you can leave the session prepared to make amazing contributions and see your code get into Puppet.

With Co-presenter: Ruth Linehan

Speakers

Hailee Kenney

Engineering Intern, Puppet Labs

Hailee is currently studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Portland. This is her second summer interning at Puppet Labs on the Puppet Core team. Her interest in open source initially drew her to Puppet Labs, and it was the amazing Puppet community... Read More →

Ruth Linehan

Software Developer, Puppet Labs, Inc.

Ruth graduated from Reed College in May 2012 with a degree in Linguistics. One month later she joined Puppet Labs as a software development intern working on Facter, and then moved to the Puppet Enterprise team shortly after that. She happily joined the team full time in October... Read More →

Friday August 23, 2013 2:20pm - 3:10pm PDT
French Fairmont Hotel

Community

Audience Beginner

2:20pm PDT

DevOps Isn’t Just for WebOps: The Guerrilla’s Guide to Cultural Change

DevOps has been a hot topic for several years, but it’s nearly always talked about with respect to web operations and startups. Since DevOps starts culturally, you can take a bottom-up approach and create a DevOps mindset inside your organization, even if you’re not deploying code twenty times a day.

Speakers

Michael Stahnke

Director of Software Engineering, Puppet Labs

Friday August 23, 2013 2:20pm - 3:10pm PDT
Grand Ballroom Fairmont Hotel

DevOps

Audience Beginner

2:20pm PDT

Introducing Puppet Enterprise’s Event Inspector

You’re configuring your systems using Puppet, but where do you go to see if your changes worked? How do you troubleshoot failures? We’ve been talking to Puppet users like you to design a tool for Puppet Enterprise that solves these problems. Come learn about this new robust reporting application.

Speakers

Joe Wagner

Senior User Experience Designer, Puppet Labs

Joe Wagner is lead User Experience Designer for Puppet Enterprise. He has 12 years experience reducing frustration and increasing satisfaction by designing tools that do what their users need them to do. He can be found Friday afternoons walking with his two daughters through the... Read More →

Friday August 23, 2013 2:20pm - 3:10pm PDT
Crystal Fairmont Hotel

Products & Technologies

Audience Intermediate

2:20pm PDT

Making a Robust Installer for Linux Server Applications with Puppet Modules

This session will describe how puppet is used in Packstack, where we are using puppet as part of a run once installer, to deploy OpenStack in a distributed environment. During this talk we will discuss the benefits and pitfalls of applying puppet manifests to deploy OpenStack.

Speakers

Derek Higgins

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Working in Red Hat Derek's main focus has been on OpenStack Deployments, where he uses Puppet and Foreman to deploy OpenStack. Derek also started the packstack install utility which applies puppet manifests to setup OpenStack in a multi host environment. Derek is still relatively... Read More →

Friday August 23, 2013 2:20pm - 3:10pm PDT
Fountain Fairmont Hotel

Puppet Forge & Puppet Modules

Audience Beginner

3:10pm PDT

Intro to Systems Orchestration with MCollective

As the number and variety of systems that you manage grows, it becomes increasingly important to have the ability to execute specific and targeted tasks against these systems - i.e orchestration. This session will provide an overview of how an orchestration framework, specifically mcollective, can be used in conjunction with puppet to provide an organized and efficient way to achieve this.

Speakers

Devon Peters

Tools Engineer, Jive Software

A Tools Engineer at Jive Software working on the Technical Operations team, which provides SaaS for hundreds of Jive customers. I've been managing Unix systems and related technologies for over 10 years, with a current focus on configuration management and systems automation, with... Read More →

Friday August 23, 2013 3:10pm - 4:00pm PDT
Gold Fairmont Hotel

Case Studies

Audience Beginner

3:10pm PDT

Automating Community Code Contributions to Puppet with Ruby, GitHub, Heroku, Trello and Travis

Attend this talk and learn how Puppet Labs handles community contributions and the FOSS tools we’ve published to automate much of the process. Puppet Labs handles thousands of contributions from hundreds of contributors and we’ve integrated Github, TravisCI and Trello to manage all of it. Come see how we do it and what we’ve built!

Speakers

Jeff McCune

Software Developer, Puppet Labs

Recovering systems engineer turned software engineer, responsible for helping the Puppet community contribute their code to our open source projects.

Friday August 23, 2013 3:10pm - 4:00pm PDT
French Fairmont Hotel

Community

Audience Beginner

3:10pm PDT

The Road to the White House with Puppet & AWS

Learn how the Obama campaign leveraged Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Puppet to rapidly scale their infrastructure up for the needs of the election in a sustainable manner. Using the automation that AWS and Puppet enabled -- the Obama campaign build a significant AWS infrastructure (http://awsofa.info) while having a lean DevOps team, tight deadlines and applications that needed to be highly available. Learn about using bootstrapping puppet on Amazon EC2 instances with CloudInit, using it with autoscaling groups and secure handling of credentials in manifests. Find out how to scale puppet masters and take advantage of Amazon S3 backed RPM/Debian repos with them.

Speakers

Leo Zhadanovsky

Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Leo Zhadanovsky is a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. He helps customers best leverage AWS services, in order to help them succeed in building highly-available, scalable and elastic architectures for their business needs. He was previously the Director of Systems... Read More →

Friday August 23, 2013 3:10pm - 4:00pm PDT
Grand Ballroom Fairmont Hotel

DevOps

Audience Beginner

3:10pm PDT

Boxen: AATFT

If software is eating the world, automation is keeping it from falling to piece. Automation shouldn't stop with servers. Boxen helps your organization eliminate the routinely manual task of hand-configuring an artisanal development machine. It's a complex problem, and that means sometimes parts of the solution are complex too. In this talk, we explore actually using Boxen to automate your organization's IT needs in a way that doesn't step on your developers' toes.

Speakers

Will Farrington

Junior Executive Assistant to the Assistant VP of Operations, GitHub, Inc.

Friday August 23, 2013 3:10pm - 4:00pm PDT
Crystal Fairmont Hotel

Products & Technologies

Audience Intermediate

3:10pm PDT

Replacing Simple Puppet Modules with Providers

We've probably all gone looking for the resolv.conf module, or managed a template just so we could disable PermitRootLogin, or grumbled a little at how the host provider works. What if rather than managing modules for these things, there was an idempotent type available? That is the goal of augeasproviders by the Hercules Team. By writing custom types and providers using augeas you can go back to defining your environment with a DSL, rather than managing templates and additional modules.

Speakers

Greg Swift

Linux Engineer, Rackspace

Greg is a Linux Engineer for Rackspace. An open source enthusiast by day and a fire performer by night, he has been working extensively with Augeas inside Puppet for the past two years, including contributions to the Augeasproviders module.

Friday August 23, 2013 3:10pm - 4:00pm PDT
Fountain Fairmont Hotel

Puppet Forge & Puppet Modules

Audience Intermediate

3:10pm PDT

Design Jams: Testing Puppet Changes

In this workshop we will be addressing the problem of testing changes made to your Puppet manifest. How might sysadmins verify that these changes will do what they expect? If you have thoughts about this or have run up against this challenge, please join us!

Speakers

Melinda Campbell

Senior UX Designer, Puppet Labs

Carl Caum

Friday August 23, 2013 3:10pm - 4:00pm PDT
Hunt Mezzanine Level

Trainings & Workshops

3:20pm PDT

Hands-on Lab: Chocolatey - Getting Chocolatey (Windows Package Provider) with Puppet

Starting with a blank Windows box we will build out puppet and Chocolatey (Windows package provider) from there. We will work through creating and updating our own packages. We will also take a look at server options. You will learn how to build out a Windows package provider to use with Puppet in your environment!

Please note, to complete the hands-on exercises in this session you will need a Laptop with at least 2GB of RAM.

Speakers

Rob Reynolds

Developer, Puppet Labs

Rob is a developer who has a passion for developing low maintenance solutions. In his day job he works at Puppet Labs getting his automation on. He invented yet another apt-get framework for Windows, named chocolatey, hoping this time it would stick. Rob is very active in OSS and... Read More →

Friday August 23, 2013 3:20pm - 4:00pm PDT
Empire Lobby Level

Demos & Hands-on Labs

4:00pm PDT

Products & Technologies

Audience Intermediate

4:20pm PDT

How to Develop Puppet Modules: From Source to the Forge With Zero Clicks

Puppet Modules are a great way to reuse code, share your development with other people and take advantage of the hundreds of modules already available in the community. But how to create, test and publish them as easily as possible? now that infrastructure is defined as code, we need to use development best practices to build, test, deploy and use Puppet modules themselves. Three steps for a fully automated process * Continuous Integration of Puppet Modules * Automatic release and upload to the Puppet Forge * Deploy to Puppet master

Speakers

Carlos Sanchez

Architect, MaestroDev

Carlos Sanchez is specialized in automation and quality of software development, QA and operations processes, from build tools and continuous integration to deployment automation, speaking on the subject in several conferences around the world. Involved in Open Source for over ten... Read More →

Friday August 23, 2013 4:20pm - 5:10pm PDT
Fountain Fairmont Hotel

Puppet Forge & Puppet Modules

Audience Intermediate

4:20pm PDT

Hands-on Lab: LearningPuppetVM - Learning Puppet Hands-on

Join us for an opportunity to work hands-on within Puppet software in a safe and virtual environment that you can take home with you. An expert instructor will be on hand to help you successfully complete an introduction to Puppet within our own LearningPuppetVM and get hands-on experience to set you up on your own journey to discover Puppet.

Please note, to complete the hands-on exercises in this session you will need a Laptop with at least 2GB of RAM.

Speakers

Carthik Sharma

Puppet Labs, Technical Instructor

Carthik Sharma is a Technical Instructor at Puppet Labs with experience in managing academic computing infrastructure. He received his PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida, and his interests include automation and autonomous systems.

Friday August 23, 2013 4:20pm - 6:00pm PDT
Empire Lobby Level

Demos & Hands-on Labs

4:20pm PDT

Design Jams: Discovering Quality Modules

One of the biggest pain points experienced by Puppet users is finding modules that are well-maintained, well-tested, and compatible with their platform or their puppet version. How might we solve this?

Speakers