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Ensuring Continuous Operation with Zenoss and Puppet

puppetconf 2011simon@zenoss.com

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Who is this guy? Why is he here?

● Captain Community / Swiss Army Knife

● Puppet n00b

● Not my choice (customer driven)

● I suckered you into this

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What Zenoss Lacks

● Serious Instrumentation

● No provisioning

● Deep Application changes

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What Puppet Lacks

● Deploy but bust?

● Real-time eventing, monitoring, etc.

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ZenPuppies (?)

● Lifecycle Nirvana

● Architectural similarities

● Culture / Communities

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Puppet Helps Zenoss

● System Maintenance

● Ensure Target Configuration

● Deploy Plugins

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Use Cases

● Deploy, deploy, deploy

● Add/Delete/Assign Synchronization

● Consolidate Puppet logs/messages

● Configuration drift

● Extract App info from Facter

● Instrumentation

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More

● github.com/zenoss/ZenPacks.zenoss.Puppet

● Q & A

● simon@zenoss.com