Fourth Generation Configuration Management

Keynote talk at Configuration Management Camp 2018.

Summary of the evolutionary changes in configuration management and challenges for the discipline in cloud native infrastructure.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DcyRmEx0qY

Transcript

1. Fourth Generation Config
   Management
   Eric Sorenson // @ahpook // eric@puppet.com
   

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2. soundcloud.com/ahpook
   

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6. 1. Primordial Soup
   2. Refinement
   3. Specialization
   4. Synthesis
   FOUR
   GENERATIONS
   

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7. (0).
   In the beginning
   was the command line
   

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9. recury:~ root#
   

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10. 1.
    Primordial Soup
    

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14. 2.
    Refinement
    

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17. nigel
    ben hughes
    lutterkort
    littleidea
    me
    (still bald)
    nasrat
    (obviously)
    luke
    kartar
    ripienaar
    

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19. 3.
    Specialization
    

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21. Source: Donnie Berkholz, Redmonk 2015
    

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22. Runs on a platform
    Designed for:
    • Resiliency
    • Agility
    • Operability
    • Observability
    

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23. Infrastructure as Code
    Infrastructure as
    Software
    

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25. 4.
    Synthesis
    

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26. DSL
    Model
    Driven
    Imperative
    Agent
    Based
    Remote
    Raw
    language
    UX Engine Endpoints
    cfengine ✔ ✔ ✔
    isconf ✔ (Make) ✔ ✔
    puppet ✔ ✔ ✔
    chef ✔ (Ruby) ✔ ✔
    ansible ✔ (YAML) ✔ ✔
    terraform ✔ ✔ ✔
    

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27. • Loops
    • Explicit templating
    • Strong type checking
    • Internal DAG and “true” dry-run mode
    • Both Push and Pull
    • Python DSL*
    

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29. github.com/puppetlabs/bolt
    

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31. DSL
    Model
    Driven
    Imperative
    Agent
    Based
    Remote
    Raw
    language
    UX Engine Endpoints
    puppet ✔ ✔ ✔
    bolt ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
    ansible ✔ (YAML) ✔ ✔
    opsmop ✔ (Python) ✔ ✔ ✔
    

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32. (5).
    Singularity
    

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