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Paul Stack
December 09, 2013
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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