Bas Grolleman, Emendo-IT

1. Improving in production
Puppet code
Without breaking too much
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2. About the guy on stage
Made by trial and error
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3. Quick overview
● Basics
● Code Strength
● Deployment Strength
● Documentation
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4. Introduction
Source - Abstruse Goose - http://abstrusegoose.com/432
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5. Basics
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6. Be there
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This might require a bit of handholding

7. No starting from scratch
It’s a road to beautiful failure
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8. Create a plan
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Knowing the path and walking the path

9. Create a plan
GTD Plan
1. Why?
2. When?
3. What?
4. Plan
5. Do!
6. …
7. Profit!
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10. Agile
How to trap management
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11. Code Strength
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12. Peer Review
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Show me yours and I’ll show you mine

13. Spec Tests
Shiny armor has never seen war
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14. Example Spec Test
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15. Roles / Profiles
Add stuff while staying sane
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16. Roles / Profiles
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roles::wordpress_standalone profile::base
profile::mysql
profile::wordpress
profile::nginx

17. Roles / Profiles
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profile::nginx
hiera
puppetlabs/nginx
enc

18. Small blocks
Do one thing, do it well
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19. Separate Shared Modules
Can’t clean a room when your friends are
still in it
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20. Deployment Strength
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21. Auto Building
These pieces, they should fit, I think...
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22. Auto Testing
Don’t worry, i’m just doing a few tests.
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23. Auto Deployment
Go fast, die young!
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24. Documentation
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404

25. Do I need
documentation?
Just enough
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26. Any other reasons?
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27. Where to put
documentation?
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Close to the source

28. Important Links
For review, not on presentation screen
Building a Functional Puppet Workflow Part 2: Roles and Profiles - http://s.basg.nl/1A6heKZ
Peer review - Gerrit - https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/
Spec Testing - http://rspec-puppet.com/tutorial/
Spec Helper - https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs_spec_helper
Dashboards - Foreman - http://theforeman.org/
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29. Presentation is online
http://s.basg.nl/puppetcode
You can find me on Google+
http://google.com/+basgrolleman
Questions
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30. Questions?
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