Scott Coulton is a Platform Engineering Lead at Autopilot who discusses how his company used Docker and Puppet to improve their CI/CD processes and speed up deployments to production while maintaining compliance. He explains how they had development teams deploy themselves by treating infrastructure as code that is automated, built, and tested. This allowed them to break down barriers and usher in a new wave of infrastructure development. Puppet was used for configuration management to containerize systems and help spread DevOps practices to other teams.

1. Pulling the strings to
containerize your life
Scott Coulton | Platform Engineering Lead | Autopilot

2. Who am I?
Scott Coulton
Platform Engineering Lead | Autopilot
§ Author: Puppet for Containerization
§ Puppet user since 2008
§ Puppet / Docker / AWS expert

3. Ran in parallel,
but didn’t meet
in the middle

4. § High turnaround for requests
§ Improve CI/CD processes
§ Slow deploy to production
§ Maintain compliance
Challenges

5. Let development
deploy themselves

6. Infrastructure
becomes development
§ Everything is code
§ Everything is automated
§ Everything goes through a build process
§ Everything is tested

7. Break down
barriers

8. New wave of
infrastructure
development

9. Why Docker

10. Configuration
management
is your best friend

11. What’s Next
Spreading love to other teams
§ Mature app development teams
§ Place DevOps in each development team
§ Docs for internal contributors