Windows: Having its ass kicked by puppet and powershell

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1. 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
2. About Me Develop software for OpenTable DevOps Extremist Conference Junkie
3. Agenda Classic infrastructure management Snowflake / Phoenix Servers / Immutable Infrastructure Infrastructure as Code PowerShell as a way to manage Windows PowerShell + Puppet = Kicking Windows’ Ass
4. Classic Infrastructure Management
5. “The Run book”
6. People are generally rubbish at performing manual repetitive tasks
7. SnowFlake Server Image courtesy of Liz West and under Creative Commons License Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SnowflakeServer.html
8. Machines are much more reliable at performing repetitive tasks
9. Image courtesy of FoodBev Photos and under Creative Commons License
10. Can’t we automate our manual run books?
11. Infrastructure As Code
12. Phoenix Servers Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PhoenixServer.html
16. Simian Army
17. Immutable infrastructure Chad Fowler: http://chadfowler.com/blog/2013/06/23/immutable-deployments/
18. Code Is Better
19. Windows Infrastructure Management…..
21. Managing Windows Server 2008 with PowerShell
22. Puppet
23. Puppet on Windows
24. Types Available file user group scheduled_task package service exec host
25. Demo
26. Our modules evolve everyday….
27. Get a good development environment
28. Puppet Forge
29. Puppet integration with Windows will get better and better
30. The Foreman
31. 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.
32. Further Information http://forge.puppetlabs.com/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/ http://github.com/opentable