Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Windows: Having its ass kicked by puppet and po...
Search
Paul Stack
December 09, 2013
Technology
0
140
Windows: Having its ass kicked by puppet and powershell
Paul Stack
December 09, 2013
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Paul Stack
See All by Paul Stack
Infrastructure as Software
stack72
0
75
Mirror, Mirror on the way, what is the vainest metric of them all?
stack72
1
2.3k
Continuously Delivering Infrastructure to the Cloud
stack72
0
200
DevOops 2016
stack72
0
130
The Quest for Infrastructure Management 2.0
stack72
0
150
The Biggest Trick Consultants Ever Pulled was Telling The World Continuous Delivery is Easy
stack72
1
130
The Transition from Product to Infrastructure
stack72
0
66
How to scale a Logging Infrastructure
stack72
0
190
Continuous Delivery - the missing parts
stack72
0
970
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
プレイドのユニークな技術とインターンのリアル
plaidtech
PRO
1
370
OCIjp_Oracle AI World_Recap
shinpy
1
180
AWS re:Invent 2025事前勉強会資料 / AWS re:Invent 2025 pre study meetup
kinunori
0
340
AIでデータ活用を加速させる取り組み / Leveraging AI to accelerate data utilization
okiyuki99
1
480
Observability — Extending Into Incident Response
nari_ex
1
450
激動の時代を爆速リチーミングで乗り越えろ
sansantech
PRO
1
100
ストレージエンジニアの仕事と、近年の計算機について / 第58回 情報科学若手の会
pfn
PRO
3
850
ハノーファーメッセ2025で見た生成AI活用ユースケース.pdf
hamadakoji
1
480
[VPoE Global Summit] サービスレベル目標による信頼性への投資最適化
satos
0
250
Kubernetes self-healing of your workload
hwchiu
0
550
コンパウンド組織のCRE #cre_meetup
layerx
PRO
1
270
DSPy入門
tomehirata
0
110
Featured
See All Featured
Product Roadmaps are Hard
iamctodd
PRO
55
11k
Gamification - CAS2011
davidbonilla
81
5.5k
Rails Girls Zürich Keynote
gr2m
95
14k
Context Engineering - Making Every Token Count
addyosmani
8
300
The World Runs on Bad Software
bkeepers
PRO
72
11k
What’s in a name? Adding method to the madness
productmarketing
PRO
24
3.7k
Git: the NoSQL Database
bkeepers
PRO
431
66k
JavaScript: Past, Present, and Future - NDC Porto 2020
reverentgeek
52
5.7k
GraphQLとの向き合い方2022年版
quramy
49
14k
Keith and Marios Guide to Fast Websites
keithpitt
411
23k
Bash Introduction
62gerente
615
210k
Rebuilding a faster, lazier Slack
samanthasiow
84
9.2k
Transcript
Windows: Having It’s Ass Kicked by Puppet and PowerShell since
2012 Paul Stack http://www.paulstack.co.uk http://twitter.com/stack72 mail:
[email protected]
About Me Develop software for OpenTable DevOps Extremist Conference Junkie
Agenda Classic infrastructure management Snowflake / Phoenix Servers / Immutable
Infrastructure Infrastructure as Code PowerShell as a way to manage Windows PowerShell + Puppet = Kicking Windows’ Ass
Classic Infrastructure Management
“The Run book”
People are generally rubbish at performing manual repetitive tasks
SnowFlake Server Image courtesy of Liz West and under Creative
Commons License Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SnowflakeServer.html
Machines are much more reliable at performing repetitive tasks
Image courtesy of FoodBev Photos and under Creative Commons License
Can’t we automate our manual run books?
Infrastructure As Code
Phoenix Servers Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PhoenixServer.html
None
None
None
Simian Army
Immutable infrastructure Chad Fowler: http://chadfowler.com/blog/2013/06/23/immutable-deployments/
Code Is Better
Windows Infrastructure Management…..
None
Managing Windows Server 2008 with PowerShell
Puppet
Puppet on Windows
Types Available file user group scheduled_task package service exec host
Demo
Our modules evolve everyday….
Get a good development environment
Puppet Forge
Puppet integration with Windows will get better and better
The Foreman
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.
Further Information http://forge.puppetlabs.com/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/ http://github.com/opentable