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Working with Puppet Modules?There’s an IDE for ThatKenn HusseyProject Manager | Puppet Labs @KennHussey

Friday, August 23, 13

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The Vision



Reality



Myth: The Effects of Using Tools



Managing Systems with Puppet

“ Puppet automates a system administrator’s task of keeping the configuration of a set of systems up to date. “



Starting Out



Making Your Puppets



First Attempt at Running



Testing



Avoiding Complexity



Doing The Right Thing



Best Practices

• Use modules from the beginning

• Use version control

• Use sound design principles

• reuse, separation of concerns, etc.

• Conform to style guidelines



A New Set of Issues

• Infrastructure as code without a coding tool

• File organization

• Dependency management

• Collaboration with colleagues and others

• Deployment without testing



I Have to Do What?!



Geppetto



Geppetto Objectives

• Provide a coding tool for infrastructure

• Ease the learning curve

• Support best practices

• Encourage collaboration

• Improve module quality



What’s Inside?

• Project wizards

• Manifest and module metadata editors

• Incremental build and validation

• Formatting

• Integration with VCS and Puppet Forge



Geppetto Packaging

• All-in-one download, ready to use

• SVN and git integrations

• As Eclipse plug-ins

• Open source (Apache, EPL)

• Support for Linux, OSX, Windows



Demo Time!



New in Geppetto 3.2

• Support for Puppet 3.2 (and “future” parser)

• Direct publication of modules to the Forge

• Improved module metadata editor

• Compatible with ‘Kepler’ release of Eclipse

• Bug fixes



What’s Next?


Thank YouKenn HusseyProject Manager | Puppet Labs @KennHussey

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