Windows: Having its ass kicked by puppet and powershell

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Windows: Having It’s Ass Kicked by Puppet and PowerShell since 2012 Paul Stack http://www.paulstack.co.uk http://twitter.com/stack72 mail: buildstuff@paulstack.co.uk

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About Me Develop software for OpenTable DevOps Extremist Conference Junkie

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Agenda Classic infrastructure management Snowﬂake / Phoenix Servers / Immutable Infrastructure Infrastructure as Code PowerShell as a way to manage Windows PowerShell + Puppet = Kicking Windows’ Ass

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Classic Infrastructure Management

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“The Run book”

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People are generally rubbish at performing manual repetitive tasks

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SnowFlake Server Image courtesy of Liz West and under Creative Commons License Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SnowﬂakeServer.html

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Machines are much more reliable at performing repetitive tasks

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Image courtesy of FoodBev Photos and under Creative Commons License

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Can’t we automate our manual run books?

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Infrastructure As Code

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Phoenix Servers Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PhoenixServer.html

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Simian Army

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Immutable infrastructure Chad Fowler: http://chadfowler.com/blog/2013/06/23/immutable-deployments/

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Code Is Better

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Windows Infrastructure Management…..

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Managing Windows Server 2008 with PowerShell

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Puppet

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Puppet on Windows

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Types Available ﬁle user group scheduled_task package service exec host

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Demo

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Our modules evolve everyday….

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Get a good development environment

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Puppet Forge

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Puppet integration with Windows will get better and better

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The Foreman

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Summary Code is much better for managing servers than people PowerShell is a tool to use when working with Windows Puppet compliments what PowerShell does perfectly in a DSL format Windows Server management is no longer a pain in the ass.

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Further Information http://forge.puppetlabs.com/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/ http://github.com/opentable