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[Shawn]

Just to add to Matt's note, we actually have a room at the University Of
Phoenix booked for Nov12th and the DevOPs group will be offering a puppet
beginners class from 10-3pm.


On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:53 PM, matt <ur.matt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Doug,
> I'm giving a presentation on introductory puppet at ALE in the near future,
> and if you're familiar with it, you wanna proofread my slides? I'm also
> planning on starting a Atlanta DevOps group that meets regularly and focuses
> on the glue that keeps applications together in small  and large
> understaffed companies where we have to wear all the hats at once.
> Laters!
> matt
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:50 PM, David Tomaschik <david at systemoverlord.com
> > wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Doug Hall <doughalldev at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > For the record, I agree with Brian. There's probably already a puppet
>> > recipe which does what you want to do.
>> > <http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Puppet_Patterns>
>> > Unless this is a trivial, one-time thing that will not need to be
>> > modified, I'd look at Puppet, first. Puppet can be used not only up
>> > front, for setting up "standard" systems, but it can be used for
>> > maintenance tasks, as well. We install Puppet clients on all our
>> > equipment.
>> >
>> > Puppet has its own Domain Specific Language (DSL) for getting things
>> > done. It executes ruby code behind the scenes, but you won't need to
>> > know ruby.
>> >
>> > Doug
>>
>> I'm definitely a big puppet proponent -- getting bigger as I use it
>> more.  I actually wish I had used puppet to configure my single VPS.
>> At some point, I may actually get its configuration into puppet -- it
>> will make it so much easier to restore my VPS in the event that ever
>> becomes necessary.
>>
>> Rather than reproduce it all here, since we are off a bit from the
>> original question, I'll point to a blog post I wrote a few days ago
>> for the lessons I've learned deploying puppet:
>> http://systemoverlord.com/blog/2011/10/12/deploying-puppet
>>
>>
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